Associate Information Architect - Enabling Units

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Location: Barcelona

Introduction to role:
Join our Enterprise Data Office (EDO) as an Associate Information Architect, a central IT function accountable for enterprise strategy and standards in Data.

The EIA practice is seeking an Associate Information Architect, that aligns to Enabling Units (EU). Our Enabling Units focused EIA team partners with the Finance, HR, Global Business Services, Global Compliance, Legal and Global Corporate Affairs functions to deliver strategic value.  This partnership includes the EU IT team(s) e.g. Heads of IT, Business Partners, Project Managers, Data Engineering and fellow members of IGNITE & EDO focused on EU e.g. Enterprise and Solution Architecture, Data Office(s); as well as the business stakeholders themselves e.g. HR Data Enablement Lead, Head of Finance Data Analytics & AI.

The role will focus on the definition and governance of enterprise information architectures, strategies, designs, models and consolidating thinking and artefacts across Enabling Units, one or more projects/programmes, to drive out enterprise thinking and delivery across (COMPANY NAME) IT function. The role will also support the definition of enterprise Data Strategies which may include information and data, regulatory or technical governances in a Data Mesh architecture, data innovation, enterprise architectures, governance policies standards and procedures.

Accountabilities:

Enterprise Information Architecture Accountabilities:
* Responsible for delivering coherent strategic and tactical architectural thinking across information and data architectures, MRDM, data strategies, and information and data governances.
* Responsible for working within the Enterprise Data Architecture Framework and defining, extending, managing, and benchmarking projects against leading practices, models (logical, physical, semantic), standards, frameworks, and the overall Blueprint for a project.
* Support the Head/Lead of Information Architecture Enabling Units in developing strategy and best practice for Information Architecture. Contributes to the overall Enterprise Data Strategy in partnership the (COMPANY NAME) business functions, solution developments and functional project.
* Responsible for architecture and technology evangelization, architecture roadmap, and alignment.
* Responsible for developing and performing architecture, leading practice, and technology education.
* Responsible for Architectural Governance across architectural disciplines, including developing Architectural. Decisions and progressing work to appropriate governance and assurance forums, boards and councils.

Enabling Units aligned Accountabilities:
* Deliver and manage Information Architecture (IA), conceptual and logical models, for operational, master and data products including data models, information flows, master/reference data and metadata designs to meet one or more Business Capability requirements.
* Work with business leaders to evolve IA designs to support business strategy.
* Contribute to Business capability level IA designs, possibly own end to end IA designs of smaller, simpler Business capabilities
* Take on accountability of IA designs for small/medium size projects impacting parts of a given Business capability
* Assure IT change projects in that Business Capability are aligned to IA through either delivering IA blueprint artefacts or assessing designs from Data Modellers/Solution Architects assigned to the project.
* Partner with the Enabling Units Data Office to ensure data governance processes are enabled in all IA designs and provide assurance evidence through standardised metrics: e.g., Master data consumption, data classification metadata application to support access processes.
* Responsible for selecting or defining the correct architecture and patterns to fulfil traditional reporting (management information, business intelligence) and analytics, data science, digital, and operational business use cases. This includes:
* Providing both strategic and tactical data architecture planning, design expertise and execution application on development projects, from technical designs and technology standards to Models and IA considerations.
* Providing both strategic and tactical coherent architectural thinking in support of data and other strategies, enterprise data and information architectures.
* Support the development of Data Integration architecture and overall Data Integration design of a project.
* Gains approval for the various IA artifacts ensuring enforcement of standard enterprise data element names, abbreviations, characteristics, and domains during the lifecycle of a project.

Essential Skills/Experience:
* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent number of years of experience in a Computer Science or Data Management related field.
* Experience in delivering enterprise data platform architectural thinking, and its practical application.
* Experience in the use of conceptual and logical data modeling technologies.
* Experience in defining and working with information and data regulatory governances.
* The role holder will possess a blend of data/information architecture, analysis, and engineering skills.
* Understanding the appropriate data structure and technology based on business use case and completely familiar with data lifecycles.

Desirable Skills/Experience:
* Experience of Information and Data Governance frameworks and their application in a commercial organisation
* Experience in known industry IT architectural patterns and IT architecture ways of working/methodologies (e.g. FAIR data principles, Data Mesh)
* Understands Data Platforms concepts and cloud-based containerization strategies for hybrid cloud environments
* Experience in Agile data definition scrums.
* Experience in the use of tooling, e.g. metadata cataloguing tools, data modelling tools, EA tools Understanding of, or familiarity with, Data Mesh approaches (as distinct from Data Fabric or Data Platform)
* Experience of working in the Pharmaceutical industry and experience of at least one of the Enabling Units Functions e.g. Finance, HR, etc.

At (COMPANY NAME), we connect the dots across the business to improve the agility and functionality of our processes to accelerate (COMPANY NAME) to the next level. As Architects, we make sure the rest of the business experiences the true benefits of our systems. Uniting diverse areas and simplifying the way we work, changing mindsets and behaviours along the way. Our reach goes beyond technology. We are always proactively hunting for new insights and problem-solving to identify better ways of doing things. Motivated by the opportunities to learn and grow, we move fast and drive forward.

Are you ready to maximise your impact as an Architect? Join us today!

Date Posted23-Apr-2024

Closing Date03-May-2024

(COMPANY NAME) embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements