Job Description:

About us

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty, and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.

With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there’s countless opportunities at your fingertips.

We’re growing; grow with us.

Your day to day

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Job Summary – (Role Summary)

The Principal Data Architect is a senior member of the Architecture & Innovation team responsible for developing pace setting, best practice new technology capabilities to the Company’s owners, customers, and partners. The Principal Data Architect works with senior leaders to set the vision and parameters that product delivery teams operate within. In addition, the Principal Data Architect helps to develop and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company’s standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities – (Key Activities)

• Creates, manages, and promotes the long‐term architectural vision and business case for technology roadmaps across the organization.


• Develops a holistic architectural view for the organization’s strategy, processes, information, and information technology. Responsible for ensuring alignment of business and IT strategy and vision.


• Translates industry technology direction to business value and serves as a key advisor to stakeholders, providing new research and innovative approaches.


• Accountable for the development of high-level business cases, with the ability to influence senior leadership, business partners, architects and key stakeholders within the enterprise architecture team and other functional areas on the adoption of technical solutions and drive the solution to completion.


• Research and evaluate, or provide direction to others researching and evaluating, new technologies coming to market and their potential application to IT strategies and business plans.


• Analyzes systems and processes from end to end, partnering with IT and business colleagues as appropriate.


• Provides guidance and enterprise‐wide influence that leads to enterprise solutions that are well engineered, operable, maintainable, scalable, and delivered on schedule.


• Advises in decisions regarding strategic partnerships, vendor selection and acquisitions.

What we need from you

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education –Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.

Experience – Typically a minimum of 10-15+ years of progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position. Experience working across multiple cultures and geographies.

Technical skills and Knowledge –

Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with strong knowledge of technology constraints (e.g., born from acquisition) and innovative design mindset to provide a broader solution.

Demonstrated technical experience in supporting corporate strategies through the development of cross-functional solutions from a technical and financial viewpoint.

Demonstrated experience with large scale, global systems and their supporting architecture.

Knowledge of and application of financial modeling for IT investments.

Demonstrated skills in advanced diagnostics and problem solving methodologies. 

Broad knowledge of Company policies, products, markets, processes, technical platforms and major applications as well as an understanding of business principles and practices.

Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering (e.g. cloud (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), network, compute & storage, software integration, custom software development, etc.)

Excellent oral, written, presentation and facilitation skills, with extensive experience working with senior business and technical leaders, up to and including C-Suite executives; and strong interpersonal skills are required.

Champion engineering process disciplines (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL).

Champion industry process improvement programs (e.g., CMMI, IOS‐9000, FDA, Six Sigma).

What we offer

Required Skills:

Middleware Focused:

Java, ESB e.g. Fuse, Enterprise Caching Architectures e.g. Gemfire, Service Oriented Architectures, Messaging Based Architecture e.g. Kafka and MQ, Micro Service Architecture, Public Facing APIs and API Gateways, Enterprise Integration Patterns

Data Focused:

Big Data, Data Design Principles and Best Practices. Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms, Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions (Teradata, Oracle, no-SQL databases), BI tools (OBI, Business Objects, Tableau, Essbase, Alteryx), Analytic Tools (SAS, R), Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

IHG is an equal opportunity employer.  Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans

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