It Director - Enterprise Architecture; hybrid-remote

Job Openings It Director - Enterprise Architecture (hybrid-remote)

Job Description
The Director, Enterprise Architecture will represent Digital Technology by leading the Enterprise Architecture function and will be responsible for overall architecture practice, and architecture direction for the enterprise. The position will be responsible for enterprise strategy for architecture, that results in secure, scalable, reusable, and extensible architectures. The position will have ownership of the direction and documentation of technical architecture. It will partner with the Business leadership and Digital Products, Platforms & Enterprise Applications leadership to provide direction for Global and Regional Systems.

The role requires an understanding of business issues and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions while taking ownership in coordination with other DT leaders. The incumbent will require experience with a wide range of technologies/protocols and a strong understanding of architecture patterns. This role entails strong technical background and will span the development and management of robust architecture framework and architecture methods to support digital products, cloud-based systems, and enterprise applications.

The role requires an understanding of business issues/ opportunities, and working with various business stakeholders in problem-solving, creating business capabilities, and defining effective and efficient technology solutions for solving business problems and enabling business capabilities; combining technical and business knowledge to ensure company systems are configured & leveraged to the best advantage. Benefits of this position:

• Full Benefits Package available (Medical, Dental, PTO)
• Industry leader

Job Duties and Responsibilities: The main responsibilities are:

• Provide strategic, thought, and technical leadership, vision, and direction for architecture across the enterprise.
• Manage architecture practice in partnership with DT leadership, Domain Architect, business, and subject matter experts focused on understanding business strategies, developing business and information models, and scenario planning to map strategies with business and IT initiatives.
• Partner with Digital Products & Platform Leads, Domain Architects, IT Architecture, and SME(s) to ensure that business, and information capabilities are met by the most efficient, effective use of IT applications, processes, technologies, platforms, and data management.
• Lead the Architecture Assurance process with standardizing inputs, outputs, decision process, and EA management plan to support future state architecture and the overall architecture vision.
• Establish processes to publish and communicate enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and guidelines through published reference architectures and information models.
• Communicate effectively with key constituents to reinforce the benefits of architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architecture to ensure that delivery teams are implementing and supporting in alignment with enterprise architecture guidance.
• Ensure a detailed succession plan is in place for both individuals and skills to ensure sufficient staff depth is in place to meet the needs of the business.
• Compile and recommend wants/needs for the annual budgeting process and prepare presentations to senior DT leadership.
• Develop and leverage information architecture tools and techniques, including strategy on a page, strategic planning, business model canvas, disruptions trends, balance scorecard, economic modeling, risk and interdependencies, process models, semantic models, business and information capability modeling, ecosystem modeling, customer and user profiling, journey maps, and human-centric design.
• Ensure that any new software integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
• Provide strategic consultation in defining or designing business, information capabilities, roles, processes, functions, and organizational structures, as well as leverage innovation practice to identify and enable emerging technologies to support business goals and objectives.
• Applies principles, concepts, and practices of the Competency Model in establishing the future state architecture.
• Guide team across the enterprise topology with requirements refinement, solution design, implementation execution, and system selection
• Create and maintain development plans for each team member, including training, skills assessment, goals, and career planning. Manage personal growth objectives for the Team in conjunction with Talent Management Office.
• Lead and inspires others to deliver superior customer-oriented results while living the Sherwin-Williams values.
• Lead and mentor others in the development of business, information…