Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture and Digital Transformation

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Job description

The Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture and Digital Transformation is a key leadership role within the organization, responsible for designing and communicating the shared architectural vision and standards for the IT organization within RHGA. The selected leader will need to have a deep background in leading enterprise-wide technology transformations by partnering with key IT stakeholders and business leaders, establishing architecture governance and standards, working with third party vendors, and leading in a heavily matrixed organization.

The leader should be comfortable helping define technology standards, selecting core IT platforms, and digging into the deep technical details of home-grown applications and third-party provider solutions. This role will bring strong leadership skills, help drive innovation and digital transformation, lead agenda-based product roadmap development, and ensure the use of effective processes to manage technology lifecycles. This leader should bring a strong balance of being security and compliance minded, reliability and scalability focused, while also being fully aware of the competitive environment in the broader technology space and the hospitality industry. The EA leader will use business tools (investment analysis, change management, risk assessment, competitive analysis) to ensure a commercially-sound and business-aligned technology strategy is developed and leveraged to achieve organizational goals.

The Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture will have overall accountability for aligning the technology vision for RHGA's future state enterprise architecture across the Application, Infrastructure, Information, and Security domains to achieve business strategy and growth targets. They will ensure target and reference architectures are built and maintained to manage this process. The EA leader will provide leadership, guidance, and oversight to Solution Architects, who are responsible for providing technology architecture solution options and executing architecture processes to meet business needs within a given functional area of the enterprise.

This leader will serve as a member of RHGA's IT Leadership Team.

Responsibilities:

Strategy and Alignment :

-Define Enterprise Architecture Practice focused on standards for the Application, Infrastructure, Data, and Security domains. Establish architecture processes and ensure their effectiveness.
-Establish and manage architecture governance to enable timely and effective decision making.
-Design reusable frameworks inclusive of modularized components to enable all teams to accelerate time to market for new and enhanced business capabilities that serve RHGA business needs.
-Serve as the Enterprise Architecture and thought leader within RHGA and the broader technology community by participating in conferences, symposiums, and open-source projects.
-Establish, champion, and drive Software Development frameworks, code quality standards, and sponsor refactoring/reliability improvements to existing long-term solutions at RHGA
-Participate in ongoing and annual budgetary planning for Enterprise Architecture
-Maintain awareness of current technology trends, assets, and capabilities.

Communication / Collaboration :

-Work proactively with RHGA IT partners to influence product direction and architecture in order to meet business requirements and strategic goals.
-Educate non-IT business leaders on technology architecture.
-Provide strong technical leadership and mentoring to teams with diverse skill sets and roles, such as architects, developers, testers, and business analysts.
-Collaborate with primary business sponsors in the definition of product vision and execution strategy.

Architecture Development :

-Partner with Security, Development, Infrastructure, and Support leaders to build proofs of concept and architect highly scalable and reliable future-proof solutions to support a growing hospitality organization.
-Serve as the champion of Innovation for new technologies and approaches intended to extend, transform, and scale existing core technologies with a cloud and mobile-first mentality.

Ar chitecture Implementation :

-Ensure solutions align to the overall architecture vision and to technology standards (e.g. solution patterns, application frameworks, technology roadmaps, and capital plans).
-Communicate important decisions to senior leadership and keep them informed of progress throughout the entire software development life cycle. Effectively communicate trade-offs and risks; drive key decisions across projects and manage expectations.
-Oversee efforts to ensure that enterprise architecture standards, policies, and procedures are enacted uniformly across application development projects and programs.
-Oversee efforts to review the deliverables throughout the development cycle to ensure quality and traceability to requirements and adherence to all quality management plans and standards.

Architecture Analysis and Consultation :

-Oversee efforts across the enterprise to review and provide input on proposals from an architectural perspective, including feasibility, practicality, technical viability, and consistency.

Digital Transformation and Innovation:

-Develop and build digital technology roadmaps leading to tangible business outcomes.
-Establish and institutionalize frameworks and emerging technology platforms.
-Lead execution of technology driven initiatives and ensure successful adoption of technology, frameworks, and platforms.
-Oversee engineering and development activity to demonstrate reference implementations.

Requirements:

-Minimum eight years of experience managing and architecting an enterprise-wide architecture
-Minimum six years of experience managing, mentoring, motivating, and growing an outcome driven, matrixed organization.
-Proven business acumen and demonstrated ability to build trust with business leaders.
-Significant influence experience across an enterprise, understanding the nuances of business context and requirements that shape the entire SDLC and steady-state support life cycle.
-Previous experience as a security, infrastructure, or application development engineer. This person shall have meaningful experience in a non-architecture function before having become an architect.
-Experience with business capability models, documenting those models, and translating business requirements to future state Business Capability Models.
-Nice to have: Hospitality or Franchise experience, TOGAF, Zachman, or similar architectural certification, public cloud migration experience.