Enterprise Data Architect

Omaha, NE 68102

Posted: 07/25/2024 Employment Type: Permanent Application Link: 4361

Job Description

Enterprise Data Architect Remote – Midwest

Job Summary:
Apply with CSS to join our dynamic team! Seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to define and implement our enterprise data architecture strategy and principals, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, and security requirements.

Essential Job Functions:
  • Design and provide strategic direction with roadmaps across the organization relative to Enterprise Data Architecture
  • Interface with the C-Suite, building trust and relationships
  • Build a data strategy from the top down related to governance and strategy, including policies and standards, structure
  • Create a strategy around system of record and single source of truth
  • Help to establish a data-driven business, working with reliable and real-time data

Education/Experience/Skills
  • Bachelor's degree, preferably in a related field; 10 years of proven experience as an EA or a similar role in an enterprise-class environment OR a combination of education and experience that enables the candidate to fulfill the responsibilities of the position
  • Progressive growth of role and increased responsibility throughout career
  • Deep technical knowledge in areas such as cloud, virtualization, client/server, service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment, software development, data, networking, middleware, storage, data management, infrastructure, and emerging technologies
  • Excellent understanding of business strategy and the ability to align technology solutions accordingly
  • Experience producing and driving Enterprise Architecture concepts, roadmaps, principles, and strategies across an organization
  • Broad knowledge of business processes including service portfolio management, finance, asset management, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills that enable productive and positive interactions with business and technical leaders at all levels of the organization
  • Experience with Atlassian
Preferred Requirements:
  • Master’s Degree
  • Certifications in relative technologies and enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman)
  • Familiarity with industry specific regulations and compliance standards
  • Experience working in a mixed Agile/Waterfall environment

Key Aspects of the Role
  • Design, implement, document, and maintain a scalable and robust technology architecture framework that ensures business and technology alignment
  • Establish and evolve standards and architectures for system and data security, quality, production infrastructure, and Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs). These include internal standards as well as external standards such as TOGAF, Zachman, etc.
  • Provide consultation and education to architects and engineers regarding the architecture framework
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with key business leaders, seeking to understand their challenges and how technologies can help address those opportunities
  • Foster a collaborative culture and actively engage with architects and engineers to ensure design choices are made with an understanding of business objectives, the overall architectural strategy, roadmaps, governance, and frameworks
  • Develop and maintain relationships with technology strategy personnel at key vendors
  • Develop and maintain processes to guide and promote adherence to technology and security standards/policies
  • Chair relevant governance groups & boards to provide oversight of planning and design processes
  • Lead technical modernization and application rationalization efforts to improve efficiency, minimize technology complexity, and avoid unnecessary duplication of capabilities or solutions to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) resulting from overspending on license costs, hardware, networking, or technologies that are no longer fit for purpose

Additional Information:
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Direct hire - U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time
  • Remote – Midwest
  • Must be able to travel to Omaha 1x/quarter (expensed)
  • Competitive PTO (156 hours on Day 1 + lucrative), Pension plan fully vested in 5 years + 4 retirement accounts

 

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