Enterprise Architecture Director

2 months ago

Bengaluru, India Colt Technology Services Full time

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure. 

 

Job ID- 34504

Job Title- Principal Architect -Data Strategy

Location- Gurugram/ Bangalore (Hybrid)

Reports To- VP Digital Strategy and Architecture

 

Role Purpose

The Principal Architect proactively helps guide the enterprise through transformation and optimization initiatives. The Principal Architect’s scope of activities includes

  • helping the organization grow revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks
  • understanding and applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models
  • help business leaders understand, monetize and operationalize existing, new and emerging technologies
  • Understand and respond to disruptive forces by facilitating the decision-making process and providing actionable recommendations on initiatives to help the organization drive targeted business outcomes.
  • is responsible for helping business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organization’s targeted business outcomes through the choice of initiatives the organization chooses to invest in
  • focussed and aligned to one or more business area(s)
  • manage a team of lead architects and solution architects
  • build and motivate the architecture team — empowering architects — with coaching and mentoring to build a creative and safe learning environment.

 

Key Responsibilities

Data Strategy Development

  • Develop and articulate a comprehensive data strategy that aligns with the organization’s vision, mission, and long-term goals.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership, including the Chief Data Officer (CDO), to define data-related priorities and roadmaps.
  • Understands disruptive forces and the business’s economic & financial levers that affect transformation, to effectively guide technology investment decisions.
  • Facilitates business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner.
  • Formulates, translates, advocates and supports strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes.
  • Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction and architecture.
  • Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate.

Data Architecture Leadership

  • Own and drive the future state data architecture, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and adherence to industry best practices.
  • Establish and maintain data architecture standards, guidelines, and principles across the organization.
  • Work closely with technology teams to implement architectural changes and enhancements.

Data Modelling and Design

  • Ensure that data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical) is of high quality and consistency.
  • Lead the development and maintenance of logical data models (LDMs) and associated physical models.
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure understanding and adherence to architectural and modeling standards.

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Partner with the and Data Management team to drive the group’s data strategy.
  • Collaborate with business units to extract greater value from data assets.
  • Engage with key stakeholders to identify technical opportunities for enhancing data product delivery.
  • Provides consultative advice to business leaders and organizational stakeholders with  ctionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
  • Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of product decisions

Plan and Manage the IT Portfolio

  • Works closely with the (PMO) project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with the promised outcomes throughout the project or product lifecycle.
  • Presents gap analysis and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT estate, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around technological platforms.
  • Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
  • Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
  • Collaborates with infrastructure, security, data and business process teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

Team Leadership

  • Build and lead a federated team of Data Architects within the function and across the organization.
  • Guide and mentor team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning.

Quality Assurence

  • Ensure the quality of data designs proposed by the team.
  • Uphold data management principles and best practices

 

Future-Proofing

  • Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes related to data management.
  • Contribute to the organization’s data architecture vision.
  • Facilitate Innovation
  • Scans for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business. 
  • Contextualizes technology trends based on social, economic, political and other nontechnology trends.
  • Identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy and deliver expected business outcomes.

 

Experience & Skills

Experience

  • Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
  • Ten or more years of experience in data architecture with a proven track record of designing and implementing complex data solutions.
  • Ten or more years of business experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis.
  • Certifications required – TOGAF, Certified Architect(CA),  Zachmann , SAFE agile

Skills

  • Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
  • Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
  • Proficiency with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Google BigQuery, Snowflake).
  • Expertise in data modeling tools and techniques (e.g., SAP PowerDesigner, EA Sparx).
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
  • Experience with data integration and ETL tools (e.g., Talend, Informatica).
  • Excellent analytical and technical skills.
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills.
  • Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.

 

 

What we offer:Colt is a growing business that is investing in its people. We offer skill development, learning pathways and accreditation to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location.
In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt recognizes the importance of a work life balance.
Some benefit examples are:
•Flexible working and relaxed dress code
•Two days annually to spend on volunteering opportunities
•Access to Online-learning Platform
•Business mentoring
•option of parking slots in the Colt Campus
•lunch vouchers 

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