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Job Purpose
This leadership position is responsible for overseeing the strategy, design, and execution of enterprise-wide business architecture, data/information engineering, and system integration. This role has overall responsibility for the planning and operation of a business outcome driven enterprise architecture (BODEA) practice, including business process architecture, solution architecture, information & integration architecture, technical architecture, data engineering, and AI/ML initiatives. Contributes to the information technology strategy and executes the strategy and tactics related to enterprise business architecture & engineering to provide reliable, resilient, high-performing, scalable, and value-driven services.
The role will work with executive leadership, internal and external stakeholders, and key technology partners.
Responsibilities
- Owner of Enterprise Business Architecture practice. Oversees the development, implementation, and maintenance of policies, standards, governance, and procedures. Develops and maintains the department vision, strategy, and principles to guide business process & technology decision-making across the organization.
- Serves as an expert advisor to the CIO and executive C-level leadership by developing, implementing, and maintaining a strong enterprise-wide business architecture program and technology roadmap.
- Work closely with business leaders to understand their needs and translate them into effective, scalable technology solutions that facilitate key business capabilities and outcomes. Provide functional and technical content for relevant technology policies and standards.
- Builds successful stakeholder relationships with business stakeholders by developing a clear understanding of business outcomes, acting as a trusted internal advisor, and ensuring cost-effective design & delivery of services to meet those needs.
- Develops and controls an annual departmental budget to ensure consistency with overall strategic objectives. Creates and maintains a culture of continuous cost optimization.
- Assesses emerging technologies for applicability to business objectives, leading proof-of-concept projects, and identifying design opportunities for automation.
- Oversees the AI and Machine Learning program and leads the AI Governance Board to ensure proper review, prioritization, and execution of AI/ML use cases that maximize business value creation.
- Establish and oversee governance processes to ensure compliance with business architectural standards and best practices.
- Establishes the integration patterns of cloud services with on premise application and infrastructure services.
- Responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of an optimized digital manufacturing architecture based on technology principles that facilitate business agility and operational efficiency.
- Introduces innovative, differentiating enterprise business architecture services that maximize the value of technology investments.
- Works with the IT senior leadership team on the service portfolio and governance required to prioritize resources, including budget. Works with key stakeholders to measure and prioritize the design of an architecture roadmap to remediate technical debt.
- Operates a formal governance mechanism to establish and monitor effective controls for the processes and functions performed by the architecture team. Chairs the Business Architecture Review Board and ensures a proper balance between necessary governance and agile delivery of business outcomes. Supports periodic reviews by audit, compliance and other risk-related functions, as required.
- Create and maintain architectural blueprints, roadmaps, and documentation to guide development and integration efforts.
- Manage and maintain the strategy, platforms and engineering team for information assets, including design and execution of data engineering & integration activities, data cloud strategy, and the associated integration platforms.
- Accountable for development of data asset governance programs, data lineage, data security, and data platform integration.
- Supports the Business Relationship Management, IT Operations, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity Teams by implementing EAE services that align to LP’s business strategies and long-term objectives.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Business Architecture & Data Engineering or equivalent knowledge.
- 10+ years of senior-level technology leadership experience leading an Enterprise Business Architecture & Data Engineering practice.
- Or any combination of education, experience and training that demonstrates the ability to perform the key responsibilities of this position.
- Conceptual Thinker: Designs and refines organizational strategies for both the present and future, in a fast-paced, ever-changing, global digital and business technology arena.
- Communicates for Impact: Consistently and persistently ensures that the vision of enterprise business architecture, data engineering, and system integration programs are clearly communicated to key stakeholders and that they are able to help others translate the vision into action.
- Propensity to Lead: Achieves long-term strategies by successfully influencing initiatives to key leaders in Business Units, Technology, and other Functional Departments.
- Familiarity with Enterprise Business Architecture and Data Engineering with SAP, Salesforce, Aveva MES, Snowflake, and/or other similar platforms. Experience with LeanIX a plus.
- Understanding of Enterprise Business Architecture and Data Engineering best practices, ideally using modern EA methodologies such as BODEA or EA as an Internal Consultancy.
- Strong organizational and planning skills.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies.
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and interpersonal) including effective presentation and training skills to all levels of the organization and the ability to communicate in business terms.
- Excellent people management skills, and able to grow/develop/mentor talent.
- Effective PC skills (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, Visio, MS Project etc.).
- Ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff from individual contributors to the executive team, as well as key 3rd party consultants, technology vendors, or service providers.
- Able to multi-task and work effectively in a fast paced and demanding environment.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related field or equivalent, MBA preferred.
- Relevant enterprise architecture certifications preferred.
- Extensive work experience and certifications may be substituted for college degree.
Work Environment
- This position will work at home and in our Nashville office on a hybrid schedule
- Must live within a commutable distance to Nashville or willing to relocate to the greater Nashville area
- Occasional travel