Enterprise Architect Senior Principal

Description

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.

• 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.
• Drive the notion of reusable information assets and promote data as an asset.
• Guide IT teams in making architecture and solutions decisions
• Analyze data to capture requirements clearly, completely, and correctly while representing them in a formal and visual way through concept models.
• Promote best practices regarding integration frameworks, methodologies and tools.
• Facilitate meetings with business subject matter experts, decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define goals and information requirements.
• Stay current with industry trends and introduce these best practices to the company.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into high level information architecture designs based on best practices.
• Contribute to strategic planning by aligning technology decisions with business objectives.
• Ensure concepts, business relationships, associations, and semantics are effectively represented to facilitate business communication.
• Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to influence and ensure IT and business alignment.
• Identify and enforce necessary governance connections within and across domains.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

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

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

Work Authorization

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

• Advanced knowledge of TOGAF and/or other Enterprise Architecture methods
• Ability to communicate with leadership in written, presentation, or ad-hoc verbal formats
• 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.
• A minimum of 14 years professional experience in related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in information architecture
• Ability to develop enterprise information and data strategies
• Ability to work independently
• Understanding of IT data implantation methods (e.g., logical and physical models, implementation technologies, such as Hadoop, Greenplum, Teradata, Essbase, etc.)
• 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 research and analytical skills
• Advanced knowledge with cloud-based information repositories and solutions (e.g., Snowflake)
• Strong understanding of security frameworks and measures for data protection and privacy
• A minimum of 14 years professional experience in related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in information architecture.
• Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Benefits

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).

• Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance
• Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)
• 10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking
• Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)
• Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)
• Short and long-term disability plans

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance