Enterprise Architect Senior Principal

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SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizona's best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

Why Work at SRP

At SRP, we foster an inclusive work environment and believe everyone should have a fair chance to work, regardless of who they are. That’s why we value teams with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to help SRP deliver on its mission of providing reliable, affordable and sustainable water and power.

SRP's success is rooted in our employees' happiness, health, and safety. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits:

- Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)

- 401(k) plan with employer matching

- Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance

- Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)

- Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance

- Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)

- Short and long-term disability plans

- Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs

- 10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

Summary

The Senior Principal Enterprise Information Architect supports cross-functional business initiatives by leading and participating in information strategy development, information architecture design, and defining and organizing enterprise information through best practices in information modeling, taxonomy, and controlled vocabulary development. A cross functional and strategic team member, this role is responsible for unlocking the enterprise value through the development of information strategies and associated reference architectures. This role is an opportunity to apply your passion for data with the art of information design and enterprise architecture, underpinning our growth strategy and strategic business initiatives supporting innovation. This position will report to the Director of Information Management and is recognized as an expert and advisor within the organization with in-depth expertise in their own discipline and a broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function.

What You'll Do

- Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to influence and ensure IT and business alignment.

- Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.

- Implement the enterprise information architecture framework and strategies.

- Analyze business requirements and translate them into high level information architecture designs based on best practices.

- Facilitate meetings with business subject matter experts, decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define goals and information requirements.

- Proactively identify and solve problems that impact the management and direction of the enterprise information architecture and associated domain strategies.

- Develop and recommend new concepts, technologies, services, processes, or products to address future client and/or customer requirements within information, data, and analytics.

- Ensure concepts, business relationships, associations, and semantics are effectively represented to facilitate business communication.

- Analyze data to capture requirements clearly, completely, and correctly while representing them in a formal and visual way through concept models.

- Guide IT teams in making architecture and solutions decisions

- Stay current with industry trends and introduce these best practices to the company.

- Contribute to strategic planning by aligning technology decisions with business objectives.

- Promote best practices regarding integration frameworks, methodologies and tools.

- Drive the notion of reusable information assets and promote data as an asset.

- Identify and enforce necessary governance connections within and across domains.

- Participate in enterprise-wide domain governance groups.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify relevant data to be included in a domain’s information architecture.

- Collaborate on the development of enterprise-wide standards and best practices for development of domain level information architectures and associated strategies.

- Handles other duties and projects as assigned.

What It Takes To Succeed

- A minimum of 14 years professional experience in related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in information architecture

- Advanced knowledge of common data implantation methods (e.g., logical and physical models, and common implementation technology platforms such as Hadoop, Greenplum, Teradata, Essbase, etc.)

- Advanced knowledge of TOGAF and/or other Enterprise Architecture methods

- Understanding of IT data implantation methods (e.g., logical and physical models, implementation technologies, such as Hadoop, Greenplum, Teradata, Essbase, etc.)

- Advanced knowledge with cloud-based information repositories and solutions (e.g., Snowflake)

- Strong understanding of security frameworks and measures for data protection and privacy

- Advanced research and analytical skills

- Ability to develop enterprise information and data strategies

- Ability to communicate with leadership in written, presentation, or ad-hoc verbal formats

- Ability to work independently

- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Experience

- A minimum of 14 years professional experience in related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in information architecture.

- Certification in business and/or information architecture (TOGAF, DODAF, Business Architecture Guild, or other relevant certifications) preferred.

- Completion of a Bachelor's Degree in information systems design, computer science, data governance, data management, or a related field, plus an additional 36 graduate level college semester hours from an accredited institution in an area of specialty. Master’s degree or higher in information systems design, computer science, data governance, data management, or a related field preferred.

Education

Completion of a Bachelor's Degree plus an additional 36 graduate level college semester hours from an accredited institution in an area of specialty.

Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona. We are taking steps to protect the health and well-being of all team members, and by following a number of health and safety protocols, to reduce the risk of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Drug/Alcohol Policy Statement

To promote the safety and well-being of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve, SRP is committed to maintaining a drug/alcohol free work environment. Although marijuana may now be legal in Arizona, except as otherwise specified under Arizona law, SRP considers it to be an illegal drug for the purpose of our drug/alcohol policy because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. Any candidate found to be impaired during the hiring process or who has the presence of an illegal drug or unauthorized substance in their system during the pre-employment drug/alcohol test may be disqualified from further consideration in the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Salt River Project (SRP) is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state or local law.

Work Authorization

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Currently, SRP does not sponsor H1B visas, OPT, or other employment-related visas.