(HYBRID) Principal Enterprise Architect Data & Analytics

Ideal background skillset: Datalakes, Power BI, AWS

*Must agree to come onsite first 4-6 weeks then 2-3x onsite or as business needed on a weekly basis

Job Summary

The data and analytics Enterprise Architect enables business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. Furthermore, the Enterprise Architect provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices. The Enterprise Architect plays a critical role in the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of our systems. This role requires a deep understanding of data and analytics technologies and processes. The Enterprise Architect should be a strategic thinker, able to align IT initiatives with overall business goals, while also possessing the technical skills to deliver complex projects.

Job Responsibilities

The Enterprise Architect takes charge in collaborating with both business and technology teams to craft and steer corporate and business strategies for data, analytics, ML and AI that are pivotal for seamless end-to-end business operations. This role requires the ability to forge strong partnerships across a diverse range of teams, including business leaders, delivery teams, and external partners, to propel business success and maintain strict alignment with the overarching enterprise portfolio and technology strategy.

• Partners and collaborates with all stakeholders to understand and translate goals and objectives into data & analytics architectures and models and appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards. Reconcile different perspectives and drive toward consensus.

• Creates and maintains reusable analytics artifacts and patterns, including conceptual, logical and physical data models, current and target-state data architectures. Harvests artifacts across initiatives to extend the library of reusable artifacts and patterns or to enhance the existing reusable artifacts.

• Develops data & analytics policies, standards, guidelines, procedures and metrics that measure architectural quality and business outcomes

• Engages with implementation teams to encourage and promote use of existing models, methods, services and other artifacts and capabilities resulting in increased speed of technology solution delivery, making such delivery more predictable and increasing the overall re-use of technology components.

• Works as part of the program management team on large program, governing and shaping the delivery of projects. Work closely with external suppliers to ensure solution makes best use of technology and meets requirements

• Researches architectural paradigms and modern architecture constructs. Learns how processes such as continuous delivery or technologies such as micro services impact technology architecture

• Ensures compatibility with existing infrastructure, services and strategic requirements.

• Communicates the objectives and business outcomes of the data & analytics technology architecture and the associated use cases in which the organization will derive the most value

• Provides support and leadership to inform and aid evaluation and decision making in data & analytics technology spending. Simplifies the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards of the group

• Participates in the data & analytics ecosystem strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development. Evaluates and recommends emerging technologies for data management, storage and analytics

Job Specific Qualifications

Required

MUST HAVE:

*Hands on Architect for large analytical projects

*Working on Datalake and Power BI

*AWS and Microsoft experience

*Data Lake Architectural experience