Architect V – Enterprise Information

Job Description:

• Lead, analyze, and design PODS’s Enterprise Information Architecture
• Build a holistic view and roadmap of the company’s technology strategy, processes, and information technology roadmap
• Partner with business and technology groups to align technical solutions with company objectives, mission, and vision
• Deliver Information Architecture blueprints and designs aligned with functional IA roadmaps
• Evangelize Information Architecture and the value and impact of effective IA design and governance to IT and business teams
• Initiate and coordinate teams in complex technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and prototyping exercises
• Design and document data flows across the enterprise
• Design data models for analytics and reporting and assess their feasibility
• Establish data standards with business data governance groups, including master, reference, and structural standards
• Work with solution architects on data integration and service architectures
• Understand business drivers and capabilities and determine architectural designs and change requirements
• Establish and document strategic standards for enterprise application architecture across diverse platforms and engineering and development teams
• Map enterprise information architecture models to package application models to assess vendor solution suitability and impact
• Ensure business data and information needs are addressed through intentional information architecture
• Document infrastructure architecture environments and procedures
• Blueprint data architecture, including multi-year transitions and modernization recommendations
• Re-engineer and maintain an enterprise-wide view of data across business systems
• Analyze information requirements and design supporting data structures
• Champion enterprise information solutions including MDM, metadata management, analytics, content management, data integration, and related information management capabilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in computer science, system analysis or a related study
• Minimum of 12+ years of enterprise-level experience in one or more of: data architecture, database design, business intelligence
• 7+ years’ experience as a Data Architect
• Experience working for a company or governmental agency with at least 300 employees in the private sector or 500 employees in a governmental agency
• Enterprise Architecture framework qualification such as TOGAF or ZF is a plus
• Expert knowledge and hands-on experience with MDM, BI, data warehouse design and implementation techniques
• Knowledge of industry-standard middleware, ETL, master data hub, and service-oriented architecture, design and delivery solutions
• Experience with BI and analytics architectures, including traditional warehousing, distributed computing, NoSQL, virtualization, or data streaming
• Experience defining Information Architectures for cloud-based solutions and Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Snowflake, Azure SQL, Cassandra, and Cosmos
• Understanding of and hands-on experience with ERWin or an industry-standard modelling tool for OLTP and OLAP data models and implementation
• Understanding of domain modelling, business process data flows, business information modelling, entity flow diagrams, common information models, and Master Data Management
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Stack
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, and Snowflake
• Knowledge of and hands-on experience implementing data management capabilities, including Master and Reference Data Management, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance

Benefits:

• Full-time remote work arrangement
• Equal Opportunity Employer