Director of Enterprise Data Architecture

Director of Enterprise Data

The Company is looking for highly talented hands-on Technical Leader to provide technical and thought leadership to programs across the enterprise. This ideal candidate for this role has experience in designing large scale data and data-centric systems in a regulated industry. The role has a wide, enterprise view and will be the key person responsible for tracking the sources, canonical view, movement, and interfaces of data assets across a range of The Company's systems.

The person in this role will be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community supporters, both internally and externally. The person is part of a team that enables transformation across the enterprise and as such must be a strong technical leader who will gain the trust and confidence of those around them, from hands on analysts and engineers to executive engineering leaders.

Responsibilities

• Map the sources, transformation, and interfaces of critical data through the enterprise
• Design the storage, movement, and processing patterns that will align to our technology vision
• Build the canonical data definitions and views for key systems, in close collaboration with business owners.
• Build foundational patterns which mitigate risk, improve data quality, and support compliance
• Leverage sound judgment and problem solving to tackle some of The Company's most important data management problems and connect the dots to broader implications of the work
• Build awareness, increase knowledge sharing and drive adoption of modern technologies and architecture patterns in this domain
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
• Operate as a trusted advisor for data transformation and machine learning ecosystem, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an integrated manner
• Bring in a larger context to multiple software teams across multiple lines of business and guide their architecture evolution in response to business changes

Qualifications

• Masters' Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 15 years of leading & managing software development, solutions architecture, or architect roles
• 8+ years of experience leading the delivery of IT services and solutions.
• Certified Expert on AWS, Architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform
• 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, and architecting enterprise data systems
• 10+ years with distributed data management, data storage including databases (Relational, NoSQL), data analysis, data processing, data transformation, high availability, and scalability
• 5+ years of leveraging Agile methodologies
• Excellent presentation skills for large audiences, both internally and externally to C-Suite.
• Proven leadership experience managing technology teams.
• Strong mentor and coaching abilities to ensure effective growth plans of technology teams.
• Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills with strong ability to influence people at all levels and in various functions
• Ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams and application modernization initiatives