Senior Information Architect

at  Bison Transport

The Senior Information Architect works within Bison’s Enterprise Architecture practice and will collaborate with Continuous Improvement and Development teams as well as business leaders, stakeholders, and vendors to develop strategies and roadmaps. They work to define and maintain architecture artifacts for supporting project delivery and application support and lead technical vision and direction for holistic information solutions, ensuring consistency with overall enterprise and portfolio architecture that may at times include hands-on development. The Senior Information Architect will also have an opportunity to effect change within the organization by incorporating new patterns and/or technologies into new ways of working that improve business value.

• Assist in developing and implementing an overall organizational data/information strategy that is in line with technology and business processes. The strategy includes data model designs, database development, cross platform information standards, implementation, security and information management.
• Identify information sources, both internal and external, and working out a plan for information management that is aligned with organizational strategy.
• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors for the smooth functioning of the enterprise informational systems.
• Oversight of relevant tooling needed for enterprise information management.
• Managing end-to-end data/information architecture, designing the technical architecture, and developing processes and governance to support organizational goals.
• Defining and managing the flow and dissemination of information within the organization.
• Integrating technical functionality, ensuring data accessibility, accuracy, and security.
• Conducting a continuous audit of data management system performance and refine whenever required.
• Builds roadmap(s) for implementing and managing best practices in alignment with Bison’s technology strategy.
• Proactively identifies opportunities where solutions can enhance organizational efficiency.
• Keeps abreast of latest technological/industry trends.
• Acts as an advisor/advocate for business and peers.
• Works closely with all team members to create solutions that accommodate future architectural changes and designs.
• Identify critical driving forces of process, data, people, and technology at the highest levels.
• Ability to look beyond traditional business concepts and drill to the heart of a given concept.