Lead, Business Information Architect
About the role
The Lead Business Information Architect plays a pivotal role in shaping the enterprise's information landscape. This role involves developing, evangelizing, and maintaining the enterprise's information architecture, ensuring that business concepts, data definitions, and metadata are consistently aligned with technical models, validated, governed, and understood across the organization.
Responsibilities
Develop and evolve enterprise ontologies, business glossaries, and semantic models to unify understanding of core business concepts across all business units and platforms.
Lead the development and evolution of canonical data models, conceptual information models, and domain models at scale, ensuring strategic alignment and reusability.
Drive alignment of ontologies and information models with enterprise strategy, regulatory requirements, and operational imperatives.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Data Platform delivery teams to enable and scale usability across the enterprise.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
7+ years of progressive experience in information architecture, data governance, semantic modeling, or related disciplines, with significant experience in a leadership or principal capacity.
Demonstrated mastery of enterprise metadata management and business glossary tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan).
Proven experience in designing and governing ontologies, taxonomies, conceptual models, and semantic frameworks at enterprise scale.
Advanced understanding of data governance principles, data lifecycle management, data quality, and stewardship.
Advanced ability to translate complex business concepts into clear, structured enterprise information models.
2 or more years of project leadership experience.
Proven ability to run large scale, highly visible programs with responsibility for multiple project teams.
Qualifications
Mastery of enterprise metadata management and business glossary tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan).
Proven experience in designing and governing ontologies, taxonomies, conceptual models, and semantic frameworks at enterprise scale.
Advanced understanding of data governance principles, data lifecycle management, data quality, and stewardship.
Advanced ability to translate complex business concepts into clear, structured enterprise information models.
Proven ability to run large scale, highly visible programs with responsibility for multiple project teams.
Experience leading information architecture initiatives within modern data ecosystems (e.g., lakehouse architectures, data mesh, semantic layers).
Familiarity with advanced knowledge graph technologies (e.g., RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL).
Significant background in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, manufacturing).
Advanced certifications (e.g., CDMP, DGSP, TOGAF).
Skills
Enterprise metadata management and business glossary tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan).
Ontology modeling, naming conventions, metadata taxonomy, and semantic alignment.
Data governance principles, data lifecycle management, data quality, and stewardship.
Knowledge of advanced knowledge graph technologies (e.g., RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL).
Experience in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, manufacturing).
Advanced certifications (e.g., CDMP, DGSP, TOGAF).
Benefits
Commensurate with experience.
Pay
$117,600 - $161,700 per year
Schedule
Hybrid work style with 2 days per week in office and 3 days per week remote/home.