Director, Data Architecture

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

📋 Description

• Provide an enterprise architecture viewpoint on data decisions and solutions throughout Crocs.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analytics teams, and technology teams to create strategies that yield measurable business value.

• Define and enhance enterprise data architecture in collaboration with Business Intelligence and Data Engineering leaders.

• Establish enterprise information and domain architecture standards, cross-domain design patterns, and shared methodologies.

• Ensure that enterprise data solutions facilitate reporting, analytics, self-service, and adapt to changing business requirements.

• Collaborate on platform and solution architecture to devise practical, scalable, and sustainable strategies.

• Create and manage enterprise data architecture governance, which includes an Architecture Review Board.

• Identify conflicts and tradeoffs, foster alignment, and support decision-making for key data, analytics, and platform initiatives.

• Streamline the data ecosystem, enhance interoperability, and accelerate business value through improved architectural decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent experience will be considered.

• Over 8 years of experience in designing enterprise-scale data architectures, data platforms, analytics ecosystems, or data-intensive solutions.

• Strong grasp of contemporary data architecture concepts, such as information and domain architecture, data modeling, integration methods, governance, metadata, and analytics enablement.

• Demonstrated capability to address complex business challenges through data and technology solution design.

• Experience in balancing immediate execution needs with long-term architectural sustainability, scalability, flexibility, and maintainability.

• Excellent collaboration and influencing skills among engineering, analytics, business, and technology teams.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and decision-making abilities.

• Aptitude for identifying tradeoffs, managing conflict, and guiding architectural discussions among a diverse range of stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for the company incentive program.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Life and AD&D insurance.

• Short- and long-term disability insurance.

• Paid time off.

• Employee assistance program.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Additional voluntary benefits.

• Fully remote Explorer persona / flexible virtual collaboration schedule.