Architect V – Enterprise Information

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Lead, assess, and design PODS’s Enterprise Information Architecture.

• Create a comprehensive view and roadmap for the company's technology strategy, processes, and IT roadmap.

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to ensure technical solutions align with the company’s objectives and mission.

• Deliver Information Architecture blueprints and designs that correspond with functional IA roadmaps.

• Advocate for Information Architecture and emphasize the significance and impact of effective IA design and governance to IT and business teams.

• Proactively initiate and coordinate teams in complex technology assessments, proofs of concept, and prototyping activities.

• Design and document data flows throughout the technology landscape.

• Create data models for analytics and reporting while evaluating their feasibility.

• Set data standards in collaboration with business data governance groups, including master, reference, and structural standards.

• Collaborate with solution architects on data integration and service architectures.

• Identify architectural designs and change requirements driven by business needs and capabilities.

• Establish and document strategic enterprise application architecture standards across various platforms and engineering teams.

• Oversee the mapping of enterprise information architecture models to package application models and evaluate vendor solution suitability.

• Ensure that business data and information requirements are fulfilled through intentional information architecture.

• Document infrastructure architecture environments and procedures.

• Develop blueprints for data architecture, including multi-year transition and modernization recommendations.

• Re-engineer and maintain a comprehensive view of data across business systems.

• Analyze user information requirements and design supporting data structures.

• Promote enterprise information solutions such as MDM, metadata management, analytics, content management, data integration, and information infrastructure components.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related field.

• At least 12+ years of enterprise-level experience in data architecture, database design, or business intelligence.

• 7+ years of experience as a Data Architect.

• Experience working in a company or government agency with a minimum of 300 employees in the private sector or 500 employees in a governmental agency.

• Qualification in an Enterprise Architecture framework, such as TOGAF or ZF, is a plus.

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with MDM, BI, data warehouse design, and implementation techniques.

• Familiarity with 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 in defining Information Architectures for cloud-based solutions and technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Snowflake, Azure SQL, Cassandra, and Cosmos.

• Understanding and hands-on experience with ERWin or another industry-standard modeling tool for OLTP and OLAP data models and their implementation.

• Knowledge of domain modeling, business process data flows, business information modeling, entity flow diagrams, common information models, and Master Data Management.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Stack.

• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, and Snowflake.

• Knowledge and practical experience in implementing data management capabilities, including Master and Reference Data Management, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Remote work arrangement.