Enterprise Architect - Data & AI

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Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for managing the transformation and optimization initiatives and serves as a leader in applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize the business and operating model of the organization. Enterprise Architects lead the Enterprise Architecture practice and its initiatives to enable the organization to better respond to business unit and customer needs and the changing environment. The Enterprise Architect will drive the overall enterprise architecture programs, frameworks, guiding principles, and maintains technology standards and design best practices. Ultimately, the Enterprise Architect ensures that solutions are resilient, scalable, and maintainable, meeting the organization's long-term objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining enterprise data, analytics, AI architecture roadmap, standards and principles aligning with business goals.
• Define conceptual, logical and physical data models, integration pipelines for complex data systems including data warehouses and data lakes. Guide data, analytics and advanced analytics platform technology decisions.
• Define and implement data governance frameworks, policies and standards data quality and data lifecycle management.
• Guide application architects on data architecture as needed.
• Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Translates execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise data architecture.
• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends, and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s data strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Drives enterprise data architecture practices, programs, and guiding principles to help IT effectively and efficiently support business strategy.
• Maintains and evangelizes technology standards and guidelines for data platforms and identify technology rationalization opportunities.
• Promotes modern technical and design best practices and trends for data architecture, and act as a visionary to continue to progress architectural direction for future projects.
• Adapts to changing business and operating models.

Minimum Qualifications/Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in related field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, System Analysis, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Typically, 10+ years of experience in IT and business/industry including strategic and operations planning for data, analytics and advanced analytics.
• Expert level knowledge of data platforms, AI/ML engineering, Enabling & guiding Gen AI implementations.
• 2-5 years conducting focused architecture work; strategic visioning, developing artifacts, road-mapping, continues improvement, solutioning, influencing and facilitating architecture decisions, coaching teams and people.
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