Associate Director, DDIT US&I Data Architect

Role Purpose

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement data architecture solutions that align with business strategies and drive innovation.
• Technical Expertise: Utilize advanced data architecture frameworks and tools to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Oversee architectural activities for a US&I Analytics Capabilities domain (GenAI, AIMLOps, NLP, Visualization) and manage the development of solution architectures for projects or programs within the US&I DAI business area.
• Coordinate with other teams to ensure the right business and technical capabilities are incorporated into the solution with an appropriate scaling model for future capacity increases.
• Ensure business processes, requirements & outcomes are defined to drive the analytics platform architecture definition.
• Define standards and direction of architecture in the specific business or technical domain.
• Define and develop the logical design and information management strategies necessary to store, move, and manage data in a new target state.
• Utilize architecture patterns to suggest the most adequate utilization of Data and analytics technical platforms to support the holistic DAI solution architecture design.
• Define, create, and evolve the Architecture Governance Framework (e.g., architecture methods, practices, and standards) for IT.
• Incubate and adopt emerging technologies and launch products/services faster with rapid prototyping & iterative methods to prove and establish value. For identified technologies, launch to enterprise scale, ensuring value is derived.
• Focus and align innovation efforts with the Business strategy, IT strategy, and legal/regulatory requirements.
• Establish and update strategies, implementation plans, and value cases to implement emerging technologies.
• Drive innovation using appropriate people, processes, partners, and tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Design: Architect and design data solutions using tools like AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks.
• Project Management: Oversee the delivery of data lake projects, including data acquisition, quality, transformation, and publishing.
• Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet their needs.
• Innovation: Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement.
• Emerging Technology Monitoring, Consulting, Influencing & persuading, Unbossed Leadership, IT governance, building High Performing Teams, Vendor Management, Innovative & Analytical Technologies.
• Leveraging Technology for business and customer needs.
• Solid understanding of Analytical and technical frameworks for descriptive and prescriptive analytics.
• Awareness of integration patterns across MDM/RDM and transactional systems.
• Production experience delivering data lake projects, including data acquisition, quality, transformation, and publishing.
• Strong exposure to data security and governance policy definitions and enforcement capabilities.
• Data product-centric approach to defining solutions. Collaborate with business in gathering requirements, grooming product backlogs, driving delivery, and ongoing data product enhancements.
• Agile delivery experience managing multiple concurrent delivery cycles.
• Sound foundation in Analytical Data life cycle management.
• Awareness of Data product change Management and risk mitigation.