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IT Director, Enterprise Architecture Job in Cleveland, Ohio US
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Job Summary

Company
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Location
Cleveland, OH
Industries
Government and Military
Job Type
Full Time
Employee
Years of Experience
10+ to 15 Years
Salary
$149,364.00 - $195,593.00 /year
Job Reference Code
78569745

IT Director, Enterprise Architecture

About the Job

The Director, Enterprise Architecture will represent Digital Technology by leading the Enterprise Architecture function and will be responsible for enterprise architecture discipline. The position will be responsible for enterprise architecture framework, that results in a secure, scalable, reusable, and extensible architectures. The position will have ownership for the direction and documentation of technical architecture and will partner with the Business leadership and Digital Products, Platforms & Enterprise Applications leadership to provide direction for Global and Regional Systems. The role requires understanding of business issues and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions while taking ownership in coordination with other DT leaders. The incumbent will be required to possess experience with a wide range of technologies/protocols, and a strong understanding of architecture patterns. This role entails strong technical background and will span the development and management of robust architecture framework and architecture methods to support digital products, cloud-based systems, and enterprise applications. The role requires understanding of business issues/ opportunities and working with various business stakeholders in problem-solving, creating business capabilities, and defining effective and efficient technology solutions for solving business problems and enabling business capabilities. The incumbent will combine technical and business knowledge to ensure Sherwin-Williams systems are configured & leveraged to Sherwin-Williams' best advantage.

Provide strategic, thought, and technical leadership, vision, and direction for architecture across enterprise.
Enable architecture practice in partnership with DT leadership, Domain Architect, business, and subject matter experts focused on understanding business strategies, develop business and information models and scenario planning to map strategies with business and IT initiatives.
Partner with Digital Products & Platform Leads, Domain Architects, IT Architecture and SME(s) to ensure that business, information capabilities are met by the most efficient, effective use of IT applications, processes, technologies, platforms, and data management.
Drive processes to publish and communicate enterprise architecture standards, patterns and guidelines through published reference architectures and information models.
Communicate effectively with key constituents to reinforce the benefits of architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architecture to ensure that delivery teams are implementing and supporting in alignment with enterprise architecture guidance.
Develop and leverage information architecture tools and techniques, including strategy on a page, strategic planning, business model canvas, disruptions trends, balance scorecard, economic modeling, risk and interdependencies, process models, semantic models, business and information capability modeling, ecosystem modeling, customer and user profiling, journey maps, and human-centric design.
Ensure that any new software integration into company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
Applies principles, concepts, and practices of the Competency Model in establishing the future state architecture.
Guide team across the enterprise topology with requirements refinement, solution design, implementation execution, and system selection.
Create and maintain development plans for each team member, including training, skills assessment, goals, and career planning. Manage personal growth objectives for the Team in conjunction with Talent Management Office.
Lead and inspire others to deliver superior customer-oriented results while living the Sherwin Williams values.
Lead and mentors the others in the development of business, information architecture artifacts leveraging business and information frameworks and industry best practices/standards.
Direct, delegate, empower, and motivate staff to successfully accomplish objectives, meet responsibilities, and complete tasks.
Establish rapid feedback loops to improve team productivity and adapt to changing business needs.
Conduct activities like staffing, performance, resource management, and strategic direction of the team.
Apply knowledge of industry, product and functional best practices, related technology trends, and vendor future direction to guide clients toward appropriate business solutions.
Manage the practice of understanding the current knowledge of the enterprise business and information architecture in terms of current state, future possibilities, forthcoming technologies, and their relevance and impact.


FORMAL EDUCATION:

Required:

Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience.


Preferred:


Master's degree preferred
Certified Business Architect, Open Business Architecture, TOGAF or similar certifications.


KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:


Required:


12+ years of IT experience.
8+ years of experience managing direct reports.
4+ years of experience in leading Architecture Practice for the enterprise.
Strong experience with utilizing one or more Architecture Frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe, APQC etc.)
Knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid).
In-depth experience with business transformation and process redesign methods.
Knowledge of existing, new, and emerging technologies and being able to practically adopt them to new business designs and business, information models.
Experience in the development and planning of large-scale strategic IT programs, such as ERP, eCommerce, MDM, CRM etc.
Experience leading multidiscipline, high-performance work teams.
Experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
Extensive experience in approaches to systems integration, software development, Event-based and Service Architecture, APIs, API management, data modelling, integration methods.
Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and build theories for a variety of initiatives.
Experience with information management practices.
Knowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing business processes, functions, and organization structures.
Strong experience developing documentation, white papers, and presentations to all levels of management and technical staff.


Preferred:


Good understanding of APQC framework
Knowledge of finance, accounting, valuation metrics development.


TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:


Required:


Lead departmental or divisional meetings as requested. Prepare and lead presentations as requested.
Assist with various initiatives as may be required to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the group and other business/technical entities.
Maintain current knowledge of the technology workspace in terms of current state, future possibilities, forthcoming technologies, and their relevance and impact.
Responsible for hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.
Lead internal teams/task forces on initiatives as assigned.








This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

This position works in the office three days a week and is eligible to work remotely two days a week.

Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity, Inclusion and Diversity Supportive Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract.

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