Senior Information Architect

**Location**: Barcelona

Our Enterprise Data Office (EDO) is a recently formed central IT function accountable for enterprise strategy and standards in Data. The organization works closely with data delivery teams across Business Technology Group (BTG - Business Unit) IT teams and data governance teams SET Area (Line of Business) Data Offices (SEDO), supporting the build of the AstraZeneca data products including Data Mesh, analytical solutions, and with a view to enterprise information architectures and thinking.

Our global Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Practice works within the EDO, specializing in Enterprise Information Architecture, Information Architecture, Data Modelling and Data Analysis. We design the key aspects of the data world for AstraZeneca across our global customer businesses, offering critical services focused upon the ingestion, extraction, processing, transformation, transport, storage and representation of knowledge, analysis and modelling of our essential data and facts. We use leading thinking, processes, and methods to achieve enduring outcomes for projects and business-as-usual working, and lead on enterprise-level, cross organizational information architecture, for example around the definition and delivery of Data Products and alignment with Data Mesh and Data Platforms and FAIR Data thinking across our businesses.

The EIA practice is seeking a Senior Information Architect - Metadata, that sits within our EDO IT function of EIA. The role will focus on leading the definition and governance of enterprise Metadata, strategies, designs, models and consolidating thinking and artefacts across one or more business units, one or more projects/programmes, to drive out enterprise thinking and delivery across AstraZeneca IT function. The role will also support the definition of enterprise Data Strategies which may include information and data, regulatory or technical governances in a Data Mesh architecture, data innovation, enterprise architectures, governance policies standards and procedures.

You will report to and work with the new Head of EDO Information Architecture within EIA, and work closely with their team and with our wider Enterprise Data Office team, Enterprise Information and Data Governance teams.

**Typical Accountabilities**:

- Responsible for delivering architectural thought leadership artefacts and outputs related to the business of information technology, specifically focused on Metadata, and supporting definition of architectural scope and working for information technology.
- Responsible for defining, leading, and delivering coherent strategic and tactical architectural thinking across information and data architectures, taking a lead on Metadata strategies, and contributing to enterprise wide data strategies, and information and data governances.
- Responsible for working within the Enterprise Data Architecture Framework and defining, extending, managing, and benchmarking projects against leading practices, models (logical, physical, semantic), standards, frameworks, and the overall Blueprint for a project.
- Support the EDO engineering teams in realizing the Metadata strategy, surfacing requirements to drive the delivery backlog.
- Support the Head of EDO Information Architecture within EIA in developing strategy and best practice for Metadata. Contribute to leaders of the overall Enterprise Data Strategy in partnership the AstraZeneca business functions, solution developments and functional project, leading on the Metadata aspects of the strategy.
- Responsible for architecture and technology evangelization, architecture roadmap, and alignment.
- Responsible for developing and performing architecture, leading practice, and technology education.
- Responsible for Architectural Governance across architectural disciplines, including developing Architectural. Decisions and progressing work to appropriate governance and assurance forums, boards and councils.
- Responsible for selecting or defining the correct architecture and patterns to fulfil traditional reporting (management information, business intelligence) and analytics, data science, digital, and operational business use cases. This includes:

- Providing both strategic and tactical coherent architectural thinking in support of data and other strategies, enterprise data and information architectures and Metadata.
- Supports (or leads) in the development of Data Integration architecture and overall Data Integration design of a project.
- Gains approval for the various IA artifacts ensuring enforcement of standard enterprise data element names, abbreviations, characteristics, and domains during the lifecycle of a project.

**Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience**

**Essential**
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent number of years of experience in a Computer Science or Data Management related field.
- Experience in the use of conceptual and logical data modeling technologies.
- Experience in