Fellow Digital Technology Architect Operations - Remote

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Job Summary

The Fellow Architect [Operations] is responsible for providing visionary companywide architecture services to ensure portfolio technology investments are in alignment with corporate goals and its ability to move towards the future in an evolving business environment. As a Digital Technology expert, this role will utilize communication, influence, guidance, and governance processes to maximize return on technology investment, and reduce time to capability, while minimizing operational costs. The Fellow Architect will use visionary strategic thinking to choose technology capabilities, strategize and build around them to bring value to business relevant capability change.

As part of the DT architecture team the Fellow Architect will be responsible for communicating technology target state, roadmap and change progress to senior leaders and other stakeholders. They will use their communication and influence skills to promote awareness and understanding of architecture principles across the organization, evangelizing for strategic enterprise change, executing strategy, technical leadership.

Essential Functions

• Set architectural vision for core capabilities and aligning patterns to allow for consistency and reuse
• Define enterprise principles, patterns and guidance that help in technology data capabilities, platforms and infrastructure, how applications are built, deployed, and maintained to align with strategic needs and maximizing technology investments
• Provide Oversight and Governance to the current, interim and potential future state of key architecture domains
• Ensure the reference architectures, standards, and guidelines of the organization's technology is safe, secure, stable and compliant with industry standards.
• Drive adoption and re-use of the preferred resources, processes and technology across the enterprise.
• Mentor other architects and DT teams, providing guidance and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Executive-level communication, negotiation, and strategic influencing skills, capable of articulating highly complex technical visions to diverse audiences, including non-technical executives and external stakeholders.

Domain Expertise:

• The individual should bring experience integrating operational technology for rail with information technology, enterprise platforms, cloud, cybersecurity, data, and AI. Experience in rail industry strongly preferred. Other experience from transportation, aviation, aerospace and defense, utilities, industrial automation, telecommunications, logistics or another regulated infrastructure environment is also a preference.
• Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems
• IT/OT Convergence and Systems-of-Systems Architecture
• Industrial IoT, Edge Computing, and Digital Twins
• Mission-Critical and Safety-Critical Systems
• Real-Time Operational Data and Industrial AI
• Legacy OT Modernization and Platform Integration
• Architecture Governance and Technology Strategy
• Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

**Solutions Expertise**:

• Solve the most complex, ambiguous, and previously unsolvable technical challenges that have enterprise-wide or industry-wide implications.
• Design, govern, and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for our largest cross domain business problems.
• Translate complex technical ideas into digestible concepts for both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. Act as a liaison between engineering and business teams to ensure alignment and understanding.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data and intelligence or related field with 13+ year's relevant experience or equivalent work experience with at least 7 years in a Distinguished or Senior Principal Architect role within a large, complex enterprise.
• Must have repeated experience successfully influencing and championing significantly complex architecture initiatives over $10 million, developing capabilities that typically involve different executive stakeholders, multiple lines of business, many solution varieties, highly regulated environments, business transformations at mass scale.
• Proven significant contribution to the architecture profession or industry, such as publications, research, intellectual property, innovation, development of training, or contributions to standards bodies or professional organizations. They must also have contributed to the development of professional architects in sharing this knowledge.
• Experience creating significant business value realization with $1B+ or more enterprises as an architect providing vision and choosing platforms. moving organizations forward and scaled for future initiatives.
• Requires demonstrated ability to manage multiple architecture engagements and effectively plan and utilize collaborative cross functional teams to ensure the architecture objectives obtain key results.
• Must