Dir, Enterprise & Data Architecture

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Primary Duties

The Director, Enterprise & Data Architecture (E&DA) leads the development of the enterprise and data architecture strategy and develops the enterprise and data technology roadmap that is aligned with Spark’s business strategy. This is an integral role in building a holistic view and roadmap of Spark’s technology strategy, processes, and information technology roadmap. This role defines reusable enterprise standards, guidelines, patterns, and frameworks for application implementation projects.

The Director ED&A has extensive knowledge of architectural frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applies essential, unifying concepts and principles of IT systems, their components, and relationships to each other. Responsible for partnering with both business and technology groups to ensure that proposed business and technical solutions align with Spark’s overall mission and vision.

The Director E&DA is also responsible for optimizing data architecture, data models and data repositories including designing, developing, and deploying improved conceptual, logical, and physical data artifacts for our most complex ecosystems (e.g., GTIC). The role develops data and metadata policies and procedures for structural design and development to build, maintain and leverage the data model, ensuring integration with corporate data standards. He/she is responsible for Responsibilities

             

Job Function and Description

30%      Strategy and Design

• Lead and facilitate interaction with business leaders, project managers and solution owners to ensure that IT decisions are made with an understanding of their impact on the enterprise. 
• Understand the relationship between people, processes, information, and technology and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
• Provide consultative advice to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions.
• Work with, and across IT Leadership and the business to ensure development of and compliance to standards to ensure seamless integration of data, process, and tools.
• Lead the evolution of the enterprise architecture function and the data architecture function, including the coordination of our enterprise information systems, data, technical, and solution architecture viewpoints.
• Manage relationships with strategic product/service vendors to ensure alignment between their technical strategies and Spark business objectives.
• Provide on-going guidance, mentoring, feedback to the team to ensure competent performance while adhering to business function and Spark policies and procedures.

30%      Develop and Manage the E&DA Blueprint and Roadmap

• Develop and present the aggregate, integrated IT roadmaps, which reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities, inclusive of data integration capabilities.
• Facilitate a collaborative relationship across functional business areas, IT leaders, and project teams to analyze the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Ensure the building of Spark Computing Environment across the domains of Application, Information and Infrastructure are aligned with, supportive of, our architecture strategies.
• Participate in the SDLC process as a subject matter expert, reviewing and planning technology and data solutions.

30%      Govern Enterprise & Data Architecture

• Lead Enterprise