Enterprise Architect Data & BI Platforms

Overview

The Enterprise Architect Data & BI Platforms explores new technologies and sets the technology direction while ensuring alignment with business strategies and drivers. Establishes the approach for integration of information applications and programs. The role integrates the project and program strategies across multiple programs and projects. Finally, the IT Enterprise Architect catalogs, develops, coordinates, communicates, maintains, and enforces the overall Enterprise Architecture Models, Representations, Initiatives, Capabilities, and Standard Components used by the Enterprise to perform all business and technology related activities. The individual has very strong VP level leadership and behavior competencies.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

• Technology thought leader with strong business acumen and ability to map technology trends and emerging business demands to define future enterprise technology landscape and help deliver it
• Experienced in defining enterprise data strategy and architecting enterprise data platform (including Data warehouses, Data lakes, lake house, analytics & BI Platforms, AI/ML platform) to support enterprise analytics, and data sciences
• Own technology roadmap for enterprise data platform
• Experienced in defining and rolling out MLOps for the enterprise
• Deep expertise in data integration technologies, defining integration patterns and advising delivery teams on best patterns to use.
• Evaluate infrastructure technologies, manage RFI/RFP process and define rollout plan
• Guide infrastructure teams on new technologies
• Experience establishing standards guidelines & governance for managing data across the enterprise
• Define target state enterprise data architecture including data ownership, SoR, data flow across systems and data platform technologies
• Guide business product owners and application development teams to adhere to enterprise data architecture
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security and applications architects to ensure resilient and secure data platforms and processes
• Expertise in AWS data, BI and data sciences ecosystem, Analytics and Data visualization tools

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and coordinate Architecture Plans
• Assist in aligning business and enterprise initiatives with the Enterprise Architecture
• Audit compliance within the Enterprise Architecture standards
• Facilitate strategic sessions up to an executive level
• Market ("sell" the results of architectural approaches through presentations)
• Model and create graphical representations and abstractions
• Translate/map business strategy into information strategy
• Stay up to date on best practices and new technologies and solutions
• Coordinate all Enterprise Architecture and governance activities
• Serve as an expert in applicant development, database design, and/or platform (operating system) efforts, helping project teams comply with enterprise and IT policies, industry regulations, and best practices
• Work with Solution Architects and Solution Engineers to ensure solutions throughout all IT systems and platforms adhere to the enterprise architecture and to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, and to meet business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience and education combination
• 12+ years of work experience in IT
• Broad Technical knowledge across platforms (versus deep knowledge on specific platforms such as SAP, SalesForce, Microsoft)
• Proven ability building relationships and influencing Executives
• Proven ability translating business strategies into information strategies
• Analytical and strategic background that includes a broader background in different industry sectors including at least some experience in a SGWS associated industry such as retail, distribution, food and beverage, or others
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills including experience presenting and facilitating workshops and seminars
• Understanding of technology products and vendor strategies, products, and customer preferences
• Experience modeling, and representing the organizations business requirements in a human consumable manner, as it relates to strategy
• Process Excellence and Technology

Agile Delivery Values

• Openness - Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges
• Commitment - Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team
• Respect - Respect your team members to be capable and independent
• Courage - You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems
• Focus - Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.