Senior Manager, Architecture Standards & Governance

Universal Orlando Resort believes in-person collaboration is key to our success. Many of our Team Members work in a hybrid capacity, contributing from the workplace a minimum of three days per week. There are also roles that require being on-site full time. Limited remote opportunities may be available within specific departments. You’ll learn more about this during the recruitment process.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Manager, Architecture Standards & Governance is responsible for creating, reviewing and updating architecture standards including Enterprise Architecture standards, intake processes, architectural artifacts and output (diagrams, documentation, etc.). The Senior Manager, Architecture Standards & Governance is also responsible for ensuring these standards are followed throughout the complete lifecycle of the architecture work and is sustained throughout the application development & engineering cycles.

The Senior Manager, Architecture Standards & Governance is responsible for providing metrics and KPI’s on architectural compliance; tracking & managing exceptions with timelines; and providing a monthly report to senior technology leadership summarizing the overall state of architecture as it relates to technology standards, process governance, and risk identification & mitigation plans. The Senior Manager, Architecture Standards & Governance will be a leader in accelerating technology standards and advancing the maturity of our enterprise technology across applications, infrastructure, and integrated solutions.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee Architectural Governance - Develop clear processes for architectural decision-making, review and approval. Implement industry standard decision-making frameworks to ensure decisions are well documented and consistent. Oversee the Architecture and Solution Review Board, setting standards for projects to be evaluated to architecture standards. Ensure architectural team complies with all applicable architecture standards.
• Develop Architectural Standards – Define and create standards for UDX architecture documentation and frameworks, artifacts, and processes by following industry standards. Using a knowledge of architecture processes ensure each architecture artifacts official document repository, sequence diagrams, component diagrams, data models, cloud standards, network diagrams, etc. have well defined standards. In addition, ensure standards for application architecture, including service design standards, infrastructure architecture, and integration architecture. Design performance standards Ensure standards are published in an architecture repository. Define and approve tooling for each architecture artifact.
• Ensure Alignment - Ensure architecture alignment with other teams including security, data privacy, network and infrastructure teams around architectural standards and reference architectures. Participate in audits and ensure architectural documentation is in alignment with audit needs. Build upskilling community of practice and create and provide training for other teams over architectural design patterns and standards. Align with other governance teams around CMDB and EA tooling.
• Technical Collaboration - Collaborate with project management office (PMO) and other teams to set architecture standards for project intake, and day to day work (Jira). Document process and work with PMO to ensure all teams are following the process. Ensure other teams are following architecture processes for work.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, information technology or similar preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• 9+ years of experience in IT architecture, standards and governance.
• Experience in managing enterprise architecture or governance teams.
• Hands on experience with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman and Agile frameworks such as SAFe along with other IT frameworks such as ITIL.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) or other architectural framework certification preferred
• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other project management certification preferred
• Cloud platform certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect preferred

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Extensive ex