Enterprise Architect (Enterprise Data Archtiect)

PNC Bank•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

An Enterprise Architect position that collaborates with key data and technology stakeholders to build out the enterprise data architecture practice. The objective is to execute PNC’s data strategy by establishing data architecture models and standards that enable data observability, interchangeability, integrity, confidentiality, and availability. This staff-level role requires creative-thinking as well as hands-on expertise to guide teams to build out the semantic and object standards that are the foundation for data taxonomies, data models, data flows, lineage diagrams, and entity relationship models. This role operates within a TOGAF-oriented Enterprise Architecture practice that is accountable for producing and maintaining enterprise data architecture artifacts, supporting architecture governance, and guiding data related decisions from strategy through implementation.

Requirements

TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture experience
Experience in large, complex enterprise environments
Familiarity with both operational and analytical data platforms
Conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling
Data lifecycle management and data integration patterns
Metadata, lineage, and data quality concepts
Data security, privacy, and classification principles
Master and reference data concepts
Bachelors degree
5+ years of industry-relevant experience
Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Nice To Haves

Enterprise systems thinking & broad understanding of managing to a capability model
Experience working in financial services organizations with AI and Cloud technologies
Strong personal skills: Communication, Relationship Building, Collaboration, Influencing
Certifications in DCAM, CDMP, DMC, TOGAF, or SAFe are desirable but not required
Hands-on experience executing Data Architecture within a TOGAF or TOGAF-like EA framework
Strong understanding of baseline/target architecture, gap analysis, and transition planning
Experience working within formal architecture governance processes
Ability to translate business needs into data architecture outcomes
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Proven ability to influence decisions without direct authority
Machine Learning (ML)
Risk Assessments
Technical Knowledge
Decision Making and Critical Thinking
Emerging Technologies
Industry Knowledge
IT Architecture
Organizational Leadership
Service Oriented Architecture Technologies
Strategic Thinking
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

Responsibilities

Create usable architecture artifacts that measure and demonstrate progress against a strategy
Measure progress against strategic data objectives and produce results analysis with follow-up
Articulate the business impact of complex data flows and data duplication decision making
Identify and document data flows that form the basis for optimizing data lineage and retention
Produce data architecture analysis with supporting artifacts for technology recommendations
Develop architecture patterns that drive common data flows and standardized integration
Design data entity and flow models that enable operational reporting, analytics, and modeling
Lead the development, standardization, and evolution of canonical and conceptual data models
Ensure data models comply with data architecture policies and standards with validation checks
Design ontologies and semantic models for driving the adoption of data mesh and virtualization
Drive alignment of data ontologies and data semantics that support regulatory requirements
Serve as the principal authority for metadata standards collaborating with Data Owners/Stewards
Work with enterprise and solution architects to implement data observability capabilities
Work closely with data architects and guide how data products are aligned to the data standards
Partner with architecture teams to align solution architectures with data architecture standards
Ensure adherence to best practices, data principles, and semantic data governance
Establish and govern enterprise standards for ontology modeling and naming conventions
Define auditability and traceability standards for financial and operational data with metrics
Creates strategic roadmaps for transitioning to target enterprise future state, in alignment with business and technology goals while analyzing client requirements and collaborating with R&D divisions to provide ongoing support.
Creates strategic roadmaps, and aligns these with enterprise strategies, business objectives, enterprise standards, processes and methodologies.
Analyzes enterprise capabilities and IT opportunities in enterprise business processes; provides resolutions for enterprise architecture improvements by utilizing new technological applications.
Enables businesses and technology partners to drive business outcomes by providing optimum IT solutions and capabilities while mitigating risk.
Works with other enterprise architecture staff, experts and decision makers to accurately define client requirements; provides ongoing support for data, applications and system client requests.

Benefits

medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
dental and vision options
employee and spouse/child life insurance
short and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
pension and stock purchase plans
dependent care reimbursement account
back-up child/elder care
adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
a robust wellness program with financial incentives
maternity and/or parental leave
up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service