Senior Manager, Business Information Architect

Alcon Research•Fort Worth, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Business Information Architect is a leadership role within GPO Central Support and serves as the enterprise authority for information architecture within Alcon’s Global Process Ownership organization. The role defines the strategic direction, governance, and operating model for structuring and governing information across global, regulated processes to enable digital process excellence, compliance, and enterprise-level interoperability. The position leads and influences architecture work across the C2M value stream and enabling technology teams. It sets and continually improves architecture direction, standards, and decision frameworks, and is accountable for long-term information integrity, consistency, findability, compliance readiness, and scalability across C2M processes and platforms. It also supports stakeholder engagement, collaboration, knowledge transfer, and capability-building within the C2M operating model. The role is onsite in Fort Worth, Texas, with a Monday–Friday day schedule from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT. Travel requirements are 0–20%, and relocation is authorized.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of directly related experience; alternatives listed are high school plus 15 years, associate degree plus 11 years, M.S. plus 4 years, or Ph.D. plus 3 years.
Fluent ability to read, write, understand, and communicate in English.
7 years of relevant experience.
5 years of demonstrated leadership.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN, Sparx EA, Erwin, Collibra, Alation, LeanIX, or equivalent tools.
Familiarity with modern cloud data and analytics platforms such as Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake, and how they integrate with the C2M platform ecosystem.
Familiarity with FDA 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, EU MDR, and GxP expectations.
Experience with PLM, MES, QMS, RIM, ERP, or similar enterprise content/data platforms.

Responsibilities

Define the enterprise information architecture strategy aligned to Alcon’s global process model, digital thread vision, and regulatory obligations.
Establish and evolve enterprise-wide taxonomies and ontologies, metadata frameworks, and semantic models spanning R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Manufacturing.
Advise Global Process Owners, Enterprise Architecture, and senior IT and business leadership as a thought leader.
Shape governance models that balance standardization with business continuity and agility across regions and functions.
Provide architectural oversight for major transformational initiatives and platform evolutions that affect enterprise information.
Partner with other strategic IT roles to establish a community of practice for standards and patterns.
Ensure C2M information structures are AI-ready and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to support downstream analytics and automation use cases.
Lead or influence Principal, Master Data Governance roles and Principal, Data Analysis & Visualization roles.
Set and continually improve architecture direction, standards, and decision frameworks.
Support C2M process standardization, compliance readiness, business continuity, adoption, and value realization.
Promote stakeholder engagement, collaboration, knowledge transfer, and capability-building within the C2M operating model.