Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect (IT) Hybrid REMOTENashville, TN, US$165,000 - $180,000 / yr + Bonus

Position Description

This role is part of the Enterprise architecture team which plays an integral role in building a holistic view and roadmap of the Company's technology strategy and process. An Enterprise Architect is an enterprise-wide expert with broad technical skills, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled business acumen. The Enterprise Architect supports IT in developing value propositions that align with business strategies on digital transformation and cloud adoption. The Enterprise Architect is a subject matter expert in one or more categories that may include : business strategy, application architecture, data & information architecture. Enterprise Architects are expected to have strong communication and consultative approaches to engage with multiple teams including product management, engineering and other IT partners and define their transformation journey along with steps to get there.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborates with Product and IT Leadership to build strategic roadmap for platforms / systems supporting strategic business units. Aligns IT strategy, investments and plans with business goals and objectives.
• Effectively communicate IT strategy and vision with C-level executives, business leaders and IT leaders
• Develops and maintains enterprise architecture in alignment with the overall IT vision, supporting the information needs of the business and / or may manage and perform research and discovery activities, vet ideas, explore and validate emerging technologies, trends and possibilities relevant to strategic and technical direction, while supporting business innovation and playing the role of a change agent
• Partners with product and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions. Partners with Solution Architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Develops and maintains policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company. Manages and / or facilitates Architecture Review Boards to evaluate technologies, design patterns and solutions.
• Communicate and provide data architecture / business expertise to other associates during system development; ensure systems' data architecture is compatible with existing and future enterprise data architecture.
• Partner to develop strategies and roadmaps for AI & machine learning and other advanced analytics areas (e.g., natural language processing, ML platforms, data lakes)
• Create and articulate future state data platform vision via all the relevant architecture & design artifacts. Help validate these proposed future state architectures with proofs-of-concepts and / or MVPs.
• Provide technical expertise to design scalable data marts, data lake and data warehouse solutions, including addressing and resolving complex technical issues
• Provide formal technical guidance and informal assistance to engineering teams.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Must Have

o 5+ years of experience in a senior architecture role, architecting complex enterprise solution either in a cloud environment or equivalent. O Extensive experience (10+ years) in data and AI, with a strong focus on architecture, design, and implementation of large-scale enterprise systems o 2-3 years of hands-on experience in architecting and designing solutions leveraging GCP technologies like BigQuery, Dataflow, GCP Pub / Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL or Spanner

Preferred :

Benefits :

More than just pay, our rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.