Principal Information Architect - The Ashlar Group

The Opportunity
As our Principal Information Architect , you will enable the continuous acceleration of the team by working across the company to identify and establish the source of truth and system of record for every field of data representing every piece of information that is important to Astra.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining Astra's logical Enterprise Information Architecture that will enableseamless interoperabilityof systems from transaction systems, document management systems and information delivery systems.
You will lead and engage in enterprise-wide information/data management projects including the Enterprise Information Architecture, information models and flows, data dictionaries, data standards, and data quality standards and processes.
You will be a critical stakeholder to the product managers, Technical Program Managers and Engineers as well as other disciplines that are shaping the requirements of our internal systems, and the product teams that are developing and managing internal and cloud applications used by teamsacrossthe company.
You will be Astra's first "digital librarian, " helping every team member organize new information, and rapidly find the information they need.
You will bring a passion for organization and systems thinking, while creating and overseeing the architecture of data and reporting to ensure Astra can "measure what matters ".
You will implementprograms and internal processes to help our systems scale and stay organized whilebalancing immediate needs with long term objectives, and managing challenges due to rapid company growth and dynamic business requirements.
You are a fearless information evangelist, an organizational pioneer, and an excellent ETL and process coach. This is a truly unique opportunity to take Information Architecture where it may have never been before

How You'll Fulfill Your Mission

• • Define, document, evolve, and maintain the information architecture for internal systems, including metadata schemes
  • Implement information architecture by managing system configurations; coordinating with developers; documenting structure and configuration change management processes.
  • Study how users consume content, including search, data categorization and labeling
  • Align stakeholders throughout the company, and drive adoption
  • Collaborate with content owners to ensure relevant, accurate, up to date information
  • Collaborative: Facilitate inclusive conversations and workshops across diverse teams and lines of business in a virtual environment to bring people and perspectives together. Excellent written, presentational, and communication skills;Strong visualization skills with excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Validate information delivery by developing and completing usability tests
  • Define, evolve, and maintain the information architecture for internal systems, including metadata schemes.
  • Implement information architecture by managing system configurations; coordinating with developers; documenting structure and configuration change management processes.
  • Partner closely with individuals and teams from across our matrixed organization to ensure our ecosystem has accessible and logical information (content and data) organization using industry best practices - with a goal of unifying and clarifying to establish consistency.
  • Develop enterprise-scale information architectures that include taxonomies, content models and resulting strategies, ontologies, metadata schema, tag structures and associated techniques.
  • You will collaborate closely with key leaders, and business process owners across the organization to ensure the realization of an enterprise navigation strategy is captured.
  • Design, implement and lead Data Architecture, Data Quality, Data Governance across Astra
  • Develop and evangelize data quality standards and practices
  • Establish data governance processes, procedures, policies, and guidelines to maintain the integrity and security of the data.
  • Create and maintain critical data standards and metadata that allows data to be understood and leveraged as a shared asset
  • Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for a scalable master data management strategy

Qualifications

• • Proven experience performing conceptual, logical and physical data modeling with data modeling tools and database design in complex, large-scale data environments.
  • Experience in creation of data dictionaries, defining metadata management approaches and governance processes.
  • Experience making data-driven, customer-centric decisions to define scalable information architecture solutions that lead to increased discoverability, comprehension and customer engagement
  • Experience in developing and implementing IT architecture plans, Enterprise Information Architecture standard and guidelines, software development methodologies and strategic plans.
  • Experience developing scalable design of entities using advanced data structures (e.g., tall tables)
  • Experience in developing data models that support, inter alia, time dependency, historical tracings, taxonomies (simple and complex)
  • Experience in business process improvement and knowledge of business intelligence tools
  • Proven experience in transactional data modeling, dimensional modeling and object-oriented modeling
  • Proven experience creating enterprise models incorporating master and reference data.
  • Mastery of application modeling languages/techniques (e.g., UML, OML, entity relationship modeling, DFDs)
  • Deep understanding of transaction and information systems, data warehouses, data marts, ODS, MDM methodologies and life cycle as well as ETL and MDM technologies
  • M.S. or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics, or otherrelevant discipline
  • Extensive experience in understanding a variety of complex business use cases and modeling the data in the data warehouse
  • Experience in creation of data dictionaries, defining metadata management approaches and governance processes.
  • 10+ years of experience as an Information Architect
  • Proven experience creating enterprise models incorporating master and reference data
  • Solid understanding of application modeling languages/techniques (e.g., UML, OML, entity relationship modeling, DFDs)
  • Analytical: Gifted in the synthesis and analysis of complex customer and business problems to drive solutions. Experience making data-driven, customer-centric decisions to define scalable information architecture solutions that lead to increased discoverability, comprehension and customer engagement
  • Demonstrated experience in data modeling, information architecture, schema evolution, analytics, data organization layouts
  • 8 years' combined experience across user experience strategy, strategy storytelling, data visualization, and/or information architecture
  • Experience leading significant data architecture transformation at a technical level within an organization. This may include work in Master Data Management (MDM), ETL development with data integration to support data marts, extracts and reporting, Data Governance, lineage, discovery, etc
  • Experience working with transactional, temporal, time series, and structured and unstructured data

Desired Multipliers

• • Analytical and strong synthesis and analysis of complex customer and business problems to drive solutions
  • Influential: Adept at presenting a clear, easy to understand point of view that educates and influences people and outcomes
  • Agile: Strong focus on delivering continuous improvement and quality in near and long-term valuable increment
  • Systems Engineering experience (configuration management, requirements management/writing, architecture, interfaces)
  • Detail and Big Picture Orientated: Can zoom in and out of a diverse set of criteria to excavate trends and themes and drive clarity
  • Agile: Strong focus on delivering continuous improvement and quality in near and long-term valuable increments
  • Resilient, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to create structure where needed
  • Proficient at writing ETL Scripts
  • Familiar with Domo

Client - Rocketship firm
Role - Executive level
Rate - Market
Duration - Full time
Location - Alameda CA