Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture

Job Description

Our Company’s Digital Strategy is founded on the need for efficient, reusable, and user-friendly technology solutions. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team is helping to lead this transformation. Our vision is to provide strategic technology decisions that link investments and achieved business outcomes. Our goal is to offer strategic technology decision-making that connects investments and achieved business results. This focus allows the team to be a crucial supporting partner with the business to help them gain concrete business value through our company’s investments in digital.  

The role will have a focus on Research, Manufacturing and Clinical information domain spaces.  The role will have a strong focus on MDM, specifically product master.  It will also be responsible for facilitating the identification and adoption of standard reference data within these domain spaces. 

The role will concentrate on developing the Enterprise Information Architecture (IA) frameworks, processes, and standards to fulfil both divisional and enterprise requirements. Additionally, it will facilitate the adoption and continuous improvement of these Information Architecture focus areas:

·       Data Governance 

·       Metadata, Master and Reference data management and strategy 

·       Data Architecture 

·       Data Security 

·       Data Storage and Operations Document and Content 

·       Core Data and Analytics Capabilities 

The role will have a focus on Research, Manufacturing and Clinical information domain spaces.  

The role will have a strong focus on MDM, specifically product master.  It will also be responsible for facilitating the identification and adoption of standard reference data within these domain spaces. 

This role will establish Information Architecture standards, frameworks, and an enterprise data strategy, providing thought leadership to support data value capture and acceleration. It will collaborate closely with Data Management Services and Data & Analytics teams to offer architectural leadership and strategic direction. 

Regular engagement with divisional Information Architects and Senior Divisional IT leaders is essential, ensuring the developed strategy delivers business value and addressing any disconnects promptly. 

This successful candidate will work on an enterprise team, engaging with leaders across all divisions to support the CIO’s vision of an agile, business outcomes-focused IT organization, and will partner with other Technical, Systems, and Solutions architects.  

A partial list of responsibilities includes the following:  

·       Use agile, value-centric, business outcomes-oriented, and total cost of ownership-based principles to guide EA decision making.  

·       Oversee the work of a federated team of Information Architects driving enterprise data initiatives. 

·       Create and introduce an EIM framework within the company and develop a strategy to enable and adapt it over time. 

·       Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to influence and implement the EIM framework and strategy.  

·       Collaboratively develop an Information Architecture Community of Practice across the company with business and IT representation to focus on data alignment issues and data investment opportunities to bridge to data deficiencies for future and current needs. 

·       Proactively identify and solve the most complex problems that impact the management and direction of our EIM and Data Strategy. 

·       Stay current with EIM technology trends and introduce these best practices to the company.