Information Architect Job Description Template

The enterprise information architecture team supports cross-functional business initiatives by leading and participating in information strategy development, information architecture design, and defining and organizing enterprise information through best practices in information modeling, taxonomy, and controlled vocabulary development. As a strategic leader and cross functional team member, this role is responsible for unlocking the enterprise value through the development of information strategies and associated reference architectures. This role is an opportunity to apply your passion for data with the art of information design and enterprise architecture, underpinning our growth strategy and strategic business initiatives supporting B2B and B2C innovation.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to influence and implement the enterprise information architecture framework and strategies
• Facilitate meetings with business subject matter experts, decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define goals and information requirements
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into high level information architecture designs based on best practices
• Analyze data to capture requirements clearly, completely, and correctly while representing them in a formal and visual way through concept models
• Drive the notion of reusable information assets and promote data as an asset
• Develop and recommend new concepts, technologies, services, processes, or products to address future client and/or customer requirements within information, data, and analytics
• Ensure concepts, business relationships, associations, and semantics are effectively represented to facilitate business communication
• Identify and enforce necessary governance connections within and across domains
• Participate in enterprise-wide domain governance groups
• Proactively identify and solve problems that impact the management and direction of the enterprise information architecture and associated domain strategies
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify relevant data to be included in a domain’s information architecture
• Develop enterprise-wide standards and best practices for development of domain level information architectures and associated strategies
• Stay current with industry trends and introduce these best practices to the company

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems design, computer science, data governance, data management or a related field

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in information architecture
• Knowledge of common data implantation methods (e.g., logical and physical models, and common implementation technology platforms such as Hadoop, Greenplum, Teradata, Essbase, etc.)
• Knowledge of TOGAF and/or other Enterprise Architecture methods
• Understanding of IT data implantation methods (e.g., logical and physical models, implementation technologies, such as Hadoop, Greenplum, Teradata, Essbase, etc.)
• Advanced research and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate with leadership in written, presentation, or ad-hoc verbal formats
• Ability to work independently
• Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in information systems design, computer science, data governance, data management, or a related field

Certification in business and/or information architecture (TOGAF, DODAF, Business Architecture Guild, or other relevant certifications)