Enterprise Architect - Data & AI

What You Need To Know

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By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for managing the transformation and optimization initiatives and serves as a leader in applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize the business and operating model of the organization. Enterprise Architects lead the Enterprise Architecture practice and its initiatives to enable the organization to better respond to business unit and customer needs and the changing environment. The Enterprise Architect will drive the overall enterprise architecture programs, frameworks, guiding principles, and maintains technology standards and design best practices. Ultimately, the Enterprise Architect ensures that solutions are resilient, scalable, and maintainable, meeting the organization's long-term objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible for defining enterprise data, analytics, AI architecture roadmap, standards and principles aligning with business goals.

Define conceptual, logical and physical data models, integration pipelines for complex data systems including data warehouses and data lakes. Guide data, analytics and advanced analytics platform technology decisions.

Define and implement data governance frameworks, policies and standards data quality and data lifecycle management.

Guide application architects on data architecture as needed.

Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.

Translates execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise data architecture.

Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends, and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s data strategy, direction, and architecture.

Drives enterprise data architecture practices, programs, and guiding principles to help IT effectively and efficiently support business strategy.

Maintains and evangelizes technology standards and guidelines for data platforms and identify technology rationalization opportunities.

Promotes modern technical and design best practices and trends for data architecture, and act as a visionary to continue to progress architectural direction for future projects.

Adapts to changing business and operating models.

Minimum Qualifications / Requirements

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in related field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, System Analysis, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Typically, 10+ years of experience in IT and business / industry including strategic and operations planning for data, analytics and advanced analytics.

Expert level knowledge of data platforms, AI / ML engineering, Enabling & guiding Gen AI implementations.

2-5 years conducting focused architecture work; strategic visioning, developing artifacts, road-mapping, continues improvement, solutioning, influencing and facilitating architecture decisions, coaching teams and people.

Experience in working in multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

Native-level proficiency / fluent in English.

Experience in DevOps, data pipelines, data governance, and Agile technology environments (preferred).

Preferred Skills

Advanced knowledge of system dev. life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., waterfall, spiral, SAFe, agile, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize and DevOps), data pipelines, data quality and governance.

Strong knowledge of enterprise data ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

Experience with DataBricks, Confluent Kafka, PowerBI, Tableau, Business Objects and SAP ERP, supporting data needs for highly available e-commerce applications is preferred.

Knowledge of Supply chain, logistics and e-commerce.

Enabling streamlined development of AI.ML models, Gen AI use cases at scale for the enterprise.

Proficient knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.

Solid knowledge of basic graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories.

Proven skills in maintaining good relationships with IT and the business who have the most impact and influence on the architecture, managing stakeholder expectations and impacts of the architecture work.

Proficient skills in providing the necessary leadership for tasks related to the development of an enterprise’s solution architecture, such as governance, creating a portfolio roadmap, and monitoring the current state with the ability to support different development approaches.

Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams, with the proven ability to communicate with business acumen and work with diverse stakeholders, including those in an outsourced environment.

Proven ability to analyze and translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into information architecture requirements.

Proven ability to support development of teammates by sharing knowledge and experience.

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. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and / or criminal conviction records. 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.