Director, Enterprise Architecture

MSD•Rahway, NJ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Reporting to the Senior Director of Information Architecture, this role will be a member of the EA Information Architecture team. The role will closely partner and support CDO (Chief Data Office) teams to declare Enterprise Master and Reference data standards as well as jointly develop information governance standards and best practices to drive consistency across the Enterprise. The role will directly partner with CDO, providing thought leadership and establish a collaborative relationship in the establishment of our Company's Data Domains across the company. In addition, the role will interact with divisional Information Architects as well as Senior Divisional IT leaders on a regular basis and will need to clearly communicate and demonstrate the value of Enterprise Architecture and Information Architecture to their respective organizations. This role will contribute to the Enterprise Information Architecture frameworks and enterprise data strategy. The role will supply thought leadership in support of the company’s initiatives in data value capture and acceleration. This role will work closely with the company’s CDO and divisional teams to supply architectural leadership and strategic direction. This role needs to ensure the information and data strategy that is developed enables the capabilities needed to deliver business value to our customers. The role will understand the mandatory information management requirements of the enterprise and focus on developing the information architecture across relevant business areas such as (R&D, manufacturing, finance, marketing/sales, and supporting global functions). The role will contribute to consistent standards and leverage those standards to produce tangible artifact and deliverables. The role will focus on providing the enterprise the necessary Information Architecture frameworks, processes, and deliverables to provide proactive insights to critical data challenges and future needs backed by business cases for investment. This role is responsible for the “stack” of IA capabilities and frameworks and will develop information architecture assets spanning the following areas: Data Asset Investment Data Domains Data Governance Data Mapping Data Quality Information Architecture Data Modelling Reference and Master Data Data Profiling Data Classification / Entitlements / Audit Change Management / Insulation Architectures Data Storage and Operations Document and Content Analytics & Business Intelligence Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms applied towards data This leader will have an opportunity to work on a truly enterprise team that engages with leaders across all divisions and will be directly involved in helping enable our CIO’s vision of a more top-down, agile, and business outcomes-focused IT organization. The position will work in tandem with other Business, Technical, Systems and Solutions architects across the company.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree is required
Minimum of 10 years of related experience
Accountability
Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA)
Business Process Modeling
Computer Science
Data Modeling
Emerging Technologies
Leadership
Requirements Management
Solution Architecture
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Strategic Planning
System Designs

Nice To Haves

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Responsibilities

Establish Information Architecture (IA) standards, frameworks and practices. These standards and practices are expected to span capability areas including data capture/collection, ontology creation, data mapping, and taxonomies.
Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to influence and implement the EIM framework and strategy and establish an enterprise-wide information architecture program.
Analyze the data landscape across the enterprise and assess health and risks of the current state. Deliver a strategy that evolves the current state toward one where enterprise data supports the company’s transformation goals.
Grow the capabilities of an enterprise data marketplace, including data cataloguing, data discovery and data governance.
Mature the company’s delivery of information assets, leveraging product management practices to offer “Data Products”
Contribute to a master data management strategy, including entity definition and ongoing sustainment.
Collaborate with information security, business, and IT stakeholders to implement an information access policy and rules of use.
Stay current with EIM technology trends and introduce these best practices to the company.
Drive the notion of reusable Data Assets, manage data as an asset.
Discover, recommend, and implement enhancements to the enterprise Data Management architecture.
Support the creation of a common and well managed set of EA practices, which includes architecture models, architecture governance processes, architecture methods and templates, architecture communities and training, and much more.
Create EA deliverables and artifacts relevant for accountable architecture domain(s).
Prepare and deliver executive level briefings and communicate complex topics effectively to an executive audience.