Enterprise Architect

Responsible for defining, leading, and 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 for Operations in developing strategy and best practice for Information Architecture. Contributes to leaders of the overall Enterprise Data Strategy in partnership the AstraZeneca 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.
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.
Own the IA designs of one or more Business capability level IA designs.
Take on accountability for the IA for projects or programmes impacting Business capability areas within Operations.
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.
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 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. Bachelors Degree or equivalent number of years of experience in a Computer Science or Data Management related field.

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