Director, Enterprise Information Architecture

Invitation Homes is nation’s premier home leasing company, pioneering a new industry supported by advanced and robust technology solutions to enhance the resident experience Weare looking for innovative , dynamic individuals who are passionate about building business focused technology solutions using best of the breed tech stacks and take the platform to the next level.

The role of Director of Enterprise Information Architect (EIA) will provide architectural guidance and technological recommendations to support the development and implementation of cloud native data and analytics initiatives.

leading The Information Architect will also be responsible for interacting with and influence all areas of technology, including the application, infrastructure and data warehouse teams and work closely with the business stakeholders to align the data architecture capabilities to support business strategy.

You will be on the forefront of helping to define our next-generation data and analytics platform as we build the next wave of technologies that will drive our resident experience to the next level.

If you are motivated, passionate, a quick learner, and have outstanding communication skills, this role is waiting for you!

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Ownership of defining, documenting and operating overall data strategy, including schema definitions, system contracts, security, compliance and SLAs

• Evangelize data strategy among stakeholders such as business users and various data teams through design, documentation, review and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals

• Build and lead a cross cutting team responsible for operational excellence of data platform including change management process, SDLC and CICD

• Own and implement technical roadmap for continuous improvement of data platform, including tech stack upgrade, cost optimization and compliance requirements.

• Own and operate automated operational test cases for performance, security and reliability of data platform

• Responsible for growing and inspiring a team of engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development

• Cultivate a healthy, collaborative technology culture that is in line with company values

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent work experience

• 12+ years of hands-on experience working in enterprise-scale data warehousing, data architecture, and/or data engineering environments

• 5+ years working as an Enterprise Architect with a good understanding of Enterprise Architecture as a practice

• 5+ years of designing, implementing, and building pipelines (ELT/ETL) that deliver data with measurable quality under the SLA

• 5+ years of SQL (MSSQL, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Hive, etc.) experience is required

• 5+ years of hands-on data modeling experience, especially dimensional data modeling

• Must have knowledge of one or more of Data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, SSRS, SSAS or other

• Strong understanding of core infrastructure components (servers, network, storage)

• Experience with Enterprise Data Governance, Big Data Solutions, Master data management, Data Privacy and Security, Machine Learning, and Data Pipeline Operations

• Strong understanding and experience building ELT/ETL solutions for both structured and unstructured data sets

Skills/Specialized Knowledge

• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

• Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast-paced work environment

• Exhibit sound judgment and swift decision-making skills

• Exhibit strong attention to detail and accuracy

• Ability to collaborate and build consensus with others

• Love of technology; actively seeks continuing education of current and emerging technologies

• Experience with building analytic solutions applicable to Sales, Finance, Product, Operations, and Marketing organizations in an enterprise

• Experience implementing operational best practices such as monitoring, alerting, metadata management

• Experience managing, measuring, improving data quality in a data warehouse

• Communication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights

• Experience working in agile development environment

• Experience working with Salesforce and Yardi in real estate domain highly desirable

• Experience working with cloud providers, both on the IAAS side (AWS, Azure, GCP), and in the data and analytics space (Snowflake, etc).

We run our infrastructure in AWS, so experience with that ecosystem is a huge plus

• Experience in working in large teams using CI/CD and agile methodologies