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 ontologies, information models, and data standards to ensure consistent alignment with business concepts and technical models. The incumbent works closely with Enterprise Architecture and Data Platform teams to drive usability across the enterprise.
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.
Partner with senior solution architects, engineering leaders, enterprise architecture leaders, platform delivery leaders, analytics executives, and business stakeholders to embed business information architecture into strategic data products, integration patterns, and analytics platforms.
Translate complex business strategies and concepts into structured, enterprise-scale information models, providing thought leadership and mentorship.
Establish and govern enterprise standards for ontology modeling, naming conventions, metadata taxonomy, and semantic alignment.
Lead the evolution of enterprise data governance frameworks, stewardship models, and domain governance structures in partnership with senior stakeholders.
Ensure adherence to industry best practices in information architecture, FAIR data principles, and semantic data governance, and proactively monitor emerging trends and technologies.
Identify, assess, and resolve complex inconsistencies in data definitions, business rules, and semantic structures, driving enterprise-wide remediation and best practices.
Support regulatory, risk, and audit requirements by ensuring data meaning, provenance, and lineage are traceable, documented, and defensible.
Qualifications
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.
Demonstrated ability to run large scale, highly visible programs with responsibility for multiple project teams.
Preferred qualifications include:
Master's degree.
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).
Additional Information
This role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship. Work Style: Hybrid with 2 days per week in office and 3 days per week remote/home. Office Locations: Louisville, KY, Washington, DC (Arlington, VA), Dallas, TX, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Nashville, TN.