Enterprise Architect

Georgia-Pacific's IT Digital Manufacturing Team is seeking an Enterprise Architect. This role is responsible for developing strategic technology roadmaps in partnership with manufacturing operations and IT leaders. The role involves capability mapping, understanding business processes, identifying opportunities for improvement, and defining requirements, data models, and processes to optimize manufacturing processes. This position is integral to Digital Manufacturing IT's commitment to accelerating technology-enabled disciplined operations while ensuring a safe and productive workforce.

• Designs, aligns, and optimizes the GP IT's technology and business architecture to support its strategic goals
• Connecting the various value chains via modern architecture better practices (manufacturing, supply chain, product development, etc.)
• Develops and maintains the enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business goals
• Forecast plans and strategy for data, for our enterprise information architecture, and for the supporting technology transitions, future goals, and needed skills for GP IT that support our business data strategy.
• Build consensus across our Centers of Excellence (Data Platforms, Services, & MDM; Integrations; Digital Supply Chain; Product Development; Customer Experience; Manufacturing & Operations; EA; and Security) to align strategies.
• Be responsible for defining our solution patterns that will be leveraged by solution design teams to implement projects and work very closely with Enterprise Architecture to establish solution pattern standards.
• Own and drive our BI Technology innovation funnel in collaboration with support from other COE's. We will have a clear sensing and evaluation strategy that moves new BI Technologies through a PoC to Pilot to Production approach that this role will define. This individual must partner heavily with other COE's to borrow resources to engage in "Innovation Initiatives", so must be highly collaborative and influential.
• Oversee documentation of roadmaps, models, communication protocols, and market trends.
• Lead and set standards for governance and technical infrastructure.
• Conceive, experiment with, and present architectural approaches for information technology and systems, including software, hardware, and processes, in support of business needs.
• Advocate for data quality, meta data enrichment, and catalogs that expose data across the data lake.
• Be a major influencer of data architects and data-minded professionals across IT and business.

• Data analytics, modeling, and associated data preparation experience required.
• Knowledge in modern architecture best practices.
• Able to work across a variety of domains and capabilities in the organization, unlocking a Data Fabric or Digital Thread.
• Architecture experience in a large manufacturing organization.
• Advanced in understanding and interpreting data models and ER diagrams, in data integration technologies, such as Kafka and NATS, and have demonstrated ability to develop solutions that scale to enterprise-wide usage.
• Detailed knowledge of data architecture and engineering principles for MES, QMS, AWS S3, Redshift, Snowflake, SAP environments.
• Experience in leading, educating, and training other data engineers in the principles of good information architecture design.

• Experience working in the Paper, Pulp, Building Products, and CPG industries.

Equal Opportunity