Enterprise Information Architect

Sherwin-Williams hiring for Enterprise Information Architect jobs in Cleveland, OH, US

The Sherwin-Williams Enterprise Architecture team empowers the delivery of flexible and optimized solutions to our business partners and stakeholders. We collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to design the best solutions that prioritize current operational demands, identify disruptions, and align opportunities to drive business value. We are passionate about providing architectural guidance, standards, and principles that accelerate delivery of value to our business and customers. 

The Enterprise Information Architect role is responsible for designing and implementing the overall strategy, architecture, and standards for managing information flows and connects within and between solutions.  This role will bring a strategic enterprise perspective to how information connects between solutions and the information flows through seamless user experience, leading to connected experiences. This role collaborates with and facilitates the connection of business and technical stakeholders in architecture practice, application delivery, UX and Enterprise Data Organization teams, to ensure that information is collected, stored, and used in a way that aligns with the organization's goals.

This role will also provide information architecture vision, leadership, mentoring, training, structure, and contribute to the maturity of our architecture practice and discipline and accelerate value creation. The role will partner with the Data Architecture team and collaborate effectively in driving the information architecture for the organization. 

Essential Functions 

•              Establish, publish, and socialize information architecture standards, models, principles, and reference patterns to accelerate the delivery of solutions and integration of information between them.

•              Optimize information flows between applications through the user experience.

•              Strong facilitation skills to connect stakeholders and drive collaboration.

•              Collaborate with the Enterprise Data Organization (EDO) to ensure application information flows align with EDO Canonical Models and Standards.

•              Develop and maintain an Enterprise Information Roadmap that outlines the long-term vision and strategy for the flow of information through solutions to the user experience.

•              Providing training, leadership and mentorship to other professionals and architects within the organization

•              Facilitate the ongoing evolution of domain models, capability maps, and context views from both a business and technical lens.

•              Increase maturity of our architecture practice.

Incidental Functions 

•              Provide technical leadership and assistance to projects outside of architecture as identified by leadership

•              Take initiative to learn, research, and communicate new concepts, ideas, and technologies

•              Facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items

•              Maintain current knowledge of the technology workspace in terms of current state, future possibilities, forthcoming technologies, and their relevance and impact

•              Conduct research into new applications, tools, components, and frameworks

•              Lead presentations that effectively communicate ideas, manage change, and persuade others to action

•              Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy

Position Requirements 

Formal Education & Certification

•              Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience. 

•              TOGAF, CEAP, CEDA, CDMP, CBDA or similar certification a plus.

•              CSM, SAFe, ITIL, APQC, or similar training/certifications a plus.

Knowledge & Experience

•              12+ years IT experience. 

•              8+ years of administration or engineering expertise with Information Management

•              8+ years of Architecture experience in the discipline of Information Architecture

•              Experience applying systems thinking to create technical models, reference architectures

•              Experience in the architecture and development of large-scale, high-risk, strategic Information Management Programs

•              Experience creating and maintaining Enterprise Information Roadmaps

•              Strong understanding of Cloud-native information architecture

•              Experience in developing data models for APIs and Applications

•              Experience implementing cloud architectures

•              Experience conducting and supporting teams through architecture tradeoff management to arrive at design decisions guided by sponsor/stakeholder priorities

•              Experience conducting proof-of-concepts, developing prototypes, and building reference models

•              Experience developing and governing architecture standards and principles

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

•              Prior experience designing information strategies and communicating the vision to a community of stakeholders

•              Experience in leading major information management programs in key business areas

•              Ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them for a non-technical audience

•              Experience leading or speaking at trade conferences, publishing content, or active participation in professional meetups/guilds

•              Strong knowledge of modern data science technologies including Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning

•              Experience applying international constraints and context to enterprise architecture

•              Experience deploying and training change management and enablement frameworks

•              Experience developing architecture for new product/platform teams

•              Experience in applying systems and design thinking methodology to architecture practices

Personal Attributes

•              Strong commitment to inclusion and diversity

•              Excellent leader that inspires others to achieve shared goals 

•              Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities

•              Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

•              Effective change agent

•              Customer-obsessed, servant-leader mindset

•              Negotiation skills and ability to influence others by educating and sharing information

•              Promotes collaboration

•              Persuasive in nature; able to disagree in a constructive fashion. Capable of improving ideas and expanding viewpoints without diminishing the contributions of others on the team

•              Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

•              Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative, multi-stakeholder, multi-location environment

•              Thrives in an environment of continuous change; acts as a change champion and evangelizes the value of continuous improvement