Enterprise Architect (Hybrid OR Remote- Jersey City, Raleigh, or Hartford)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to lead the data architecture function for Data Management, enabling Arch’s vision of becoming a data-driven and AI-enabled organization. This role involves ensuring architecture standards, best practices, guidance, and data management governance for end-to-end data delivery across the Group. This is a hybrid, in-office work setup, with the possibility of fully remote work for candidates within close proximity to one of our North East offices (Raleigh, Jersey City, or Hartford).

Responsibilities

• Work with the Chief Data Architect to drive the enterprise data management function and roadmap, including current, target, and transition states in line with the overall Arch Data & AI strategy.
• Maintain market solution architecture designs and playbooks for the adoption of modern data warehousing technologies like Snowflake and strategic data platform & analytics capabilities.
• Ensure successful delivery of data management initiatives by collaborating with solution architects and data architects from the program.
• Own the target state enterprise data management platforms and architecture, as well as transition states from the current state, per segment.
• Introduce new Data Management capabilities within the organization from inception to adoption.
• Lead the Data Management Centre of Excellence, covering all aspects of Data Management and tooling.
• Manage vendor relationships across all tooling covering data management capabilities.
• Steer and quantify the value of data platform transformations.
• Shape overall data management roadmaps, co-created with domain SMEs from the business, to provide a coherent view across data in Arch.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of enterprise architecture experience within an organization of similar size and complexity to Arch.
• Data architecture expertise with rich experience in delivering transformative programs with a large data management footprint.
• Experience in architecting and driving Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Access Management, and Data Privacy across a global enterprise.
• Experience in modern data warehousing and a solid technical understanding of modern cloud systems.
• Experience working with Snowflake/Databricks as an enterprise capability and deep knowledge of their ecosystems.
• Experience in key data architecture functions across ingestion, transformation, visualization, and metadata management leveraging tools like Snowflake, Azure services, dbtCloud, and Collibra.
• Experience in delivering data products aligned with business requirements and data mesh principles in the modern data warehousing paradigm.
• Proven ability to lead the successful technical adoption of modern data management capabilities into an enterprise organization.
• Strong senior stakeholder communication skills, with experience in executive communication.

Pay

• For North Carolina: $122,000 - $149,000/year
• For Morristown, NJ: $142,000 - $173,000/year
• For Jersey City, NJ; White Plains, NY: $157,000 - $180,000/year

Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) will consider factors including geographic location, scope and responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability, specialization, and business needs.

Benefits

• Multiple medical plans plus dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Competitive 401k with generous matching.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) starting at 20 days per year.
• Up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Off.
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance, as well as Short and Long-Term Disability.
• Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks.
• Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement.
• Backup Child and Elder Care.