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The Sherwin-Williams Company IT Director, Enterprise Architecture in Cleveland, Ohio
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 infor