IT Business Architect – Data & Frontline Digital Solutions

Howmet Aerospace is currently in search of an IT Business Architect – Data & Frontline Digital Solutions to join our Global Information Services (GIS) Resource Unit at the Howmet Corporate Center in Pittsburgh, PA. The position will report into the Senior Director, Corporate Applications and be part of the Architect team that strives to provide value-add business-driven solutions, through the leverage of right technologies. This role will be capable of building strong relationships across the business, as well as serving as an advocate for technology with BU/RU leadership.

Major Activities:

• The IT business architect clarifies strategic intentions, identifies business outcomes, explores implications, impact, risks, and addresses stakeholders’ questions.
• Proactively and holistically leads and supports information technology strategic initiatives that align with business goals and shape business models - people, processes, technologies and data.
• Helps business leaders and end users understand, apply, evaluate, and operationalize existing, new, and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models 
• Works closely with business functional areas and IT delivery teams to define and architect data environments to meet reporting and analytical needs for consumers, developers, and business analysts that consider value, volume, velocity, and variety.
• Create alignment with HR leadership, HR technology, and IT delivery teams to assess, evaluate, design and operationalize a digital strategy for Frontline workers 

Responsibilities:

• Conduct interviews and analyze existing processes to improve HR processes and the organization’s data culture to drive towards strategic goals and targeted business outcomes, while considering IT investment priorities
• Translate complex concepts into actionable deliverables to move the business toward realizing its strategic goals and targeted business outcomes.
• Continuous knowledge development of business capabilities, business processes, technology capabilities and standards for applicability and feasibility assessments 
• Use the organization’s existing business and operating model as the starting point for innovation, for example, by using new technologies to enhance, enable and extend as a building block
• Research and provide consultation on emerging technology trends and disruptions and competitors' practices relevant to assigned business process/functions representatives
• Collaborate with the IT PMO on benefits, issues, risks of initiatives and reporting project status
• Analyze and anticipate project and product needs and determine resources needed to meet objectives and solve problems
• Capture business needs and collaborate with other IT thought leaders on solutions
• Question and challenge legacy assumptions, navigate ambiguity, and maintain a holistic or  big picture view of the organization’s strategic landscape
• Convey complex technical solutions to various cross functional roles in the company for alignment, adoption, and measurable impact
• Collaborate with the business stakeholders and vendors to design strategic data solutions, data architectures, and data stores that meet business objectives, promote standardization, and enable usage
• Prepare data architectures that can be transitioned to delivery teams for development and implementation in collaboration with technologists, cloud infrastructure leads, and application architects
• Conduct research and make recommendations on data lake products, services, protocols, and standards
• Define the strategic plan, technologies, and project roadmaps for leveraging data 
• Define and recommend digital solutions designed to fit the daily work and challenges of the workers who are directly involved in manufacturing to improve administrative processes
• Define a strategic plan, technologies and project roadmaps for providing digital solutions for frontline workers to meet the business’ objectives for employee engagement
• Facilitate and collaborate with Howmet stakeholders involved in digital strategy and innovation to drive adoption of business process change