VP, Business Information Architect

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

The VP, Business Information Architect will be responsible for designing, documenting and driving the creation of curated datasets, data domain taxonomies and ontologies in support of Synchrony’s business, data and analytics strategy. The VP, Business Information Architect will play a pivotal role in facilitating the design of shared information to improve usability, accessibility, and user experience.  This individual will report to the SVP, Chief Data Officer.

The VP, Business Information Architect will collaborate with Business and IT Leaders, Data Management process owners, and analytics stakeholders across Synchrony to identify, organize and support the modernization of information supporting analytic processes inclusive of curated data sets.

Our Way of Working

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home, near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Ensure that data sets are designed and organized in a way that make them easily accessible and understandable to data consumers

• Ensure that curated data is accessible, useful, and meaningful for the intended applications, such as data analysis, machine learning, or data-driven decision-making

• Partner with engineering and data stakeholders to assess data models and/or support the creation of proprietary logical data models that are fit for purpose to meet the business goals.

• Responsible for ensuring our data and product ontologies comprehensively describe knowledge graphs that are available for machine learning and AI/Inference ingestion.

• Collaborating with stakeholders to translate data requirements from business processes, into information architectural designs for execution by data architects and data engineers.

• Develop data domain driven curated data products

• Leads and consults with other architectural disciplines to influence information disciplines, direction, technical and data flow, and solution agnostic design decisions. Guides peers in developing information architecture skills while maturing and nurturing healthy peer and mentee relationships.

• Document the information architecture and share knowledge with team members to ensure a consistent understanding and application of IA principles across the organization

• Leverage and contribute to Synchrony’s metadata catalog and overall data management control environment

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

• Create process and design documents, functional specifications, user stories, and other artifacts to describe the intended information architectural design of curated datasets.

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree OR, in lieu of degree, a high school diploma/GED and 15+ years of project/program management experience

• A minimum of 12+ years of experience to include:

  • Minimum of 5 years of project and/or program management experience to include working on gathering business need requirements, planning and defining business solutions, and working with the application and infrastructure teams to manage the project through the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in data modeling and defining conceptual, logical and physical data models

  • Minimum 3 years of experience working on data integration, data modeling, data warehousing, big data environments

Desired Characteristics:

• Broad understanding of banking, credit card, payment solutions, collections, marketing, risk and regulatory & compliance.

• Experience using data governance and data quality tools such as: Collibra, Ab Initio Express>IT; Ab Initio MetaHub, ER/Studio

• Proficient in writing / understanding SQL.

• Experience querying/analyzing da