Information ArchitectOverview: Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest and most iconic brands in the world. As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. "Brain Freeze" is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month. But there's a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services. At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It's what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers. Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.How We Lead: At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles. Be Customer Obsessed. Be Courageous with Your Point of View. Challenge the Status Quo. Act Like an Entrepreneur. Have an "It Can Be Done" Attitude. Do the Right Thing. Be Accountable. Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.About This OpportunityResponsibilities: The Information Architect will be responsible for leading the architecture and design of complex data structures and applications. This role is part of a federated Enterprise Architecture team and will collaborate with business leaders as part of initiatives and Data Goverance Councils, with IT Data Platform Team's and Product/Application Development teams. This position will be held accountable for defining and managing data architecture strategy, standards, guidelines, and processes that meet business strategic and tactical goals while ensuring data quality.Qualifications: 10+ overall relevant IT experience with 5 to 10 years of experience of as data modeler, data architect or data solution architect with proven track record of delivery of data lake, data warehouse, data mart, or other data analytics platforms in a large scale company (Fortune 500). Extensive of experience of data modeling techniques, 3rd normal form, dimensional modeling and denormalization skills and experience with other data modeling techniques and associated tools. Extensive experience with Data Governance tools to catalogue, manage data lineage and data quality. Extensive experience in business process modeling using different industry standards to align process and data flow across the enterprise. Certified in TOGAF. Solid knowledge or experience of a wide range of data management disciplines including Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Visualization, Integrations, Advanced Analytics, Cloud Data Platforms, Machine Learning and other emerging data technologies. Knowledge and/or experience of microservice architecture, and domain driven design, and semi-structure and unstructured data schemas.
Experience creating and supporting enterprise-level data domains/information architecture is highly preferred. Solid documentation skills required. Background in Retail is strongly preferred. Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills for interacting and collaborating with other leaders and associates throughout the organization. Team-oriented, with proven ability to work well and collaborate globally across multiple and disparate teams.
Experience in Informatica Data Quality, Axon and Enterprise Data Catalog.
Experience implementing data governance in a larger organization (Fortune 500). Quick learner and be able to pick new technology as we expand our data governance footprint. Ability to ideate and be able to pursue those ideas to deliver business value. Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or other related field or equivalent work experience. Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection. Required: Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Data Governance or Data Management. Required: Knowledge of data management and data quality best practices is required. Work extremely well with others to build and leverage diverse relationships to work towards a common goal. Strong ability to analyze and manipulate data and determine trends, along with presenting the data in an easy to understand and meaningful way.