Director - Enterprise Architecture

December 6

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Great Minds

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Curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards • Liberal Arts • Advocacy • Curriculum development • Education

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

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Description

• The Director of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for helping to maximize Great Minds' current and future technology investments as strategic enablers of company goals and objectives. • The individual will report to the Chief Information Officer and strategically design and support the IT portfolio, data models, and product lifecycles. • The Enterprise Architect implements best practices for enterprise-level capabilities, applications, information, and other supporting technologies. • This position will ensure that Great Minds’ IT systems utilize consistent and integrated architectural and information management techniques that satisfy our governance, policies, standards, security, and business needs. • This role guides high-impact projects to assure that these projects are well architected and aligned with the defined Enterprise Architecture. • ERP and Salesforce expertise are critical to this role, in addition to other technologies.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills; able to communicate enterprise technology architecture vision at various levels and gain support and consensus from different internal/external stakeholders • Knowledge of project planning/management including scope, time and resource management • Knowledge of enterprise level reporting and data governance • Knowledge of IT Quality Assurance processes • Ability to multi-task and maintain agility in response to department priorities and needs • Ability to work in a matrixed environment with multiple indirect reporting relationships • Client focused and able to work collaboratively across the company with business partners • Keen attention to detail • Strong fiscal responsibility • Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities • Competency in Office 365, PowerPoint, Excel or similar software • 5+ years progressive leadership experience with comprehensive experience in enterprise strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations • 7+ years as an Enterprise Architect in large and highly complex technology environments • Extensive experience driving and leading large-scale enterprise-wide digital transformation and architectural projects in support of business goals and strategy • Experience within Solution Design and Architecture • Robust knowledge within Security Architecture • Practitioner of architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Gartner, Zachman) • Ability to define Enterprise Architecture that promotes reliability, maintainability, scalability, and flexibility based on business needs, technical architecture requirements and best practices, and data and integration/interoperability requirements; experience reviewing and selecting Technical and Applications Architectures solutions • Understands modern software architectures, frameworks, design patterns, infrastructure architecture and design, and data modeling • Experienced with hybrid environments consisting of SaaS, on premise, and third- party managed services • Knowledge of n-tier design and e-business technologies such as application servers, web server, portals, personalization, content management, web transaction processing, enterprise integration, and middleware • Extensive knowledge and experience with Enterprise Architecture tools, emerging technologies and broader enterprise solutions (ERP, CRM, eCommerce, Mobile and Web) and technology patterns • Experience supporting procurement of IT Architecture • Experience working with 3rd party Technical and Application Architects