Information Architect

Responsible for defining, leading, and delivering coherent strategic and tactical architectural thinking across information and data architectures, MRDM, data strategies, and information and data governances.Responsible for working within the Enterprise Data Architecture Framework and defining, extending, managing, and benchmarking projects against leading practices, models (logical, physical, semantic), standards, frameworks, and the overall Blueprint for a project.Support the Head/Lead of Information Architecture for Operations in developing strategy and best practice for Information Architecture. Contributes to leaders of the overall Enterprise Data Strategy in partnership the AstraZeneca business functions, solution developments and functional project.Responsible for architecture and technology evangelization, architecture roadmap, and alignment.Responsible for developing and performing architecture, leading practice, and technology education.Responsible for Architectural Governance across architectural disciplines, including developing Architectural. Decisions and progressing work to appropriate governance and assurance forums, boards and councils.

Essential Skills

Bachelors Degree or equivalent number of years of experience in a Computer Science or Data Management related field.Experience in leading and delivering enterprise data platform architectural thinking, and its practical application.Experience in the use of conceptual and logical data modelling technologies.Experience in defining and working with information and data regulatory governances.The role holder will possess a blend of data/information architecture, analysis, and engineering skills.Experience in known industry IT architectural patterns and IT architecture ways of working/methodologies (e.g. FAIR data principles, Data Mesh).DesirableExperience in a data architect role with practical examples of designing and providing data engineering/architectural blueprints that have been implemented.Experience of Information and Data Governance frameworks and their application in a commercial organisationUnderstands Data Platforms concepts and cloud-based containerization strategies for hybrid cloud environments.Experience in Agile data definition scrums.Experience in the use of tooling, e.g. metadata cataloguing tools, data modelling tools, EA tools