Senior Enterprise Information Architect

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

📋 Description

• Lead, analyze, and design PODS's Enterprise Information Architecture.

• Develop a comprehensive view and strategic roadmap for the Company's technology initiatives, processes, and information technology plans.

• Collaborate with business and technology teams to align technical solutions with the company's goals and mission.

• Deliver blueprints and designs for Information Architecture that are in line with functional IA roadmaps.

• Advocate for the importance and benefits of Information Architecture design and governance to both IT and business teams.

• Independently initiate and coordinate teams for complex technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and prototyping exercises.

• Design and document data flows throughout the organization.

• Create data models for analytics and reporting, evaluating their practicality.

• Collaborate with business data governance teams to establish standards for master, reference, and structural data.

• Work alongside solution architects on data integration and service architectures.

• Identify architectural designs and change requirements that support targeted business objectives.

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

• Oversee the mapping of enterprise information architecture models to packaged application models and assess the suitability of vendor solutions.

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

• Document infrastructure architecture environments and procedures.

• Create blueprints for data architecture, including multi-year transitions and recommendations for transformation and modernization.

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

• Analyze information requirements from user communities and design corresponding data structures.

• Champion enterprise information solutions, including MDM, metadata management, analytics, content management, and data integration.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• A minimum of 12+ years of enterprise-level experience in areas such as data architecture, database design, or business intelligence.

• At least 12 years of experience in a company or governmental agency with a minimum of 300 employees (private sector) or 500 employees (governmental agency).

• 7+ years of experience as a Data Architect.

• Qualifications in Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ZF is advantageous.

• Expert knowledge and practical experience with MDM, BI, data warehouse design, and implementation techniques.

• Familiarity with industry-standard middleware, ETL, master data hubs, 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 other industry-standard modeling tools for OLTP and OLAP data models and implementation.

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

• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure Stack.

• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, and Snowflake.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time remote work arrangement.