Senior Data Architect - Associate Director

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry. Job Description: What You’ll Do Enterprise Information Architect & BIDW Leader will establish and deliver upon the enterprise information architecture vision for enterprise-level solutions. This role is responsible for the delivery of business Intelligence & data warehouse solutions to the firm, including the information architecture and management processes of the BI data warehouse and leading the BI function and team. Responsibilities LEADERSHIP • Ownership of and accountability for successful results of the Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence teams within Data Transformation. • Thought leadership in matters of enterprise data architecture, staying abreast of new technologies, patterns and methods which c an be applicable to Crowe data • Development of team strategy, creation and socialization of roadmaps, establishing and ensuring adherence to timelines, and resource assignment for the BIDW team • Seek opportunities to bring value to the Crowe business and/or its customers through innovative enterprise data and BI strategies to support strategic business goals • Develop quantifiable goals for the team which are aligned with Data Transformation’s strategic goals as well as Crowe’s strategic business initiatives • Mentor and coach developers, data engineers, managers, and other roles within team, intentionally managing career growth via mentorship and proactive planning • Actively participate in and collaborate with technical guilds to further expose and align the firm on best practices • Understand when to delegate; this role manages resources and owns the entire team’s success • Responsibility to track and maintain clear visibility into the value and delivery timing of BIDW team initiatives for Head of Data and business stakeholders DEMAND MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT • Collaboration with Head of Data and/or other firm leaders to understand strategic business needs and requirements, and planning team and technology capacity accordingly • Communication and engagement to ensure the business sees maximum value from its data warehouse and business intelligence investments • Develop and maintain an understanding of business needs, technical architecture and systems landscape, and the technology strategy of the business • Collaborate with both BIDW team and Data Transformation leaders to establish goals, plan capacity, support other Data Transformation initiatives, and leave margin for learning and unexpected shifts PROGRAM DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT • Ultimate ownership for team delivery quality and schedule • Work closely with technology and business personnel to deliver value in a timely manner • Accountability for team using best practices for development and quality assurance aligned with firmwide standards, seeking opportunities to automate and improve • CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT • Champion a culture and mindset of excellence, collaboration, continuous improvement, design thinking and positivity • Establish metrics to monitor and tangibly demonstrate the value provided to the business via effectiveness, quality metrics, sensitive data monitoring as well as alert to any negative trends in these areas • Work with stakeholders to prioritize continuous improvement • Assess and recommend opportunities to retire/consolidate redundant legacy system assets • ADOPTION & VALUE REALIZATION • Work with team and business users to ensure successful adoption, usage, and benefit realization from solutions • Define and track KPIs and success metrics for adoption and value creation Specific responsibility expectations by the components listed below – Information Architecture Vision: Establish the Enterprise Information Architecture vision within the context of business strategy and in alignment with overall Technology & Strategy direction. • Translate strategic requirements into a usable enterprise information architecture, which may include an enterprise data model, common business vocabulary, ontology, and taxonomies, to guide enterprise solution development and achieve consistency of information assets. • Create an information architecture consistent with the business, application, and technical architectures. • Facilitate the mapping and traceability of information assets as they flow from source datastores to targets, thus ensuring optimal transparency, quality, consistency, and controlled redundancy. Information Architecture Delivery: Work with and mentor delivery teams to provide data solutions that are in keeping with the enterprise information architecture. This may include: • Assessing suitability of vendor solutions to meet enterprise information requirements. • Construct, refine and maintain information models, as needed, to meet business requirements and drive data designs for operational and analytical solutions. • Facilitate the definition of integrative and canonical views of data or information across multiple content types to support convergence of information asset migration planning or impact analysis. • Ensure new development is consistent and well-integrated with the established enterprise information architecture, using metadata management and/or a repository to promote reuse and standards adoption. • Review corporate data sourc