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    Director, Principal Architect - Orlando, United States - Universal Orlando

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    Universal Orlando Resort believes in-person collaboration is key to our success. Many of our Team Members work in a hybrid capacity, contributing from the workplace a minimum of three days per week. There are also roles that require being on-site full time. Limited remote opportunities may be available within specific departments. You'll learn more about this during the recruitment process.

    JOB SUMMARY: The Director, Principal Architect role is the strategic leader for global enterprise, solution, and application architecture. This individual works closely with executive leadership to help shape the vision and determine the technology solutions and roadmap to support a global business; works closely with the architecture team to enable a strategic vision for the functional discipline; and enables senior architects to design and build individual solutions.

    The architect ensures the platform has a cohesive vision while ensuring integrations ensure security, performance, reliability, reusability, and scalability. This role is involved in the design of a global standardized platform across multiple value streams. They will design a landscape of new enterprise-wide systems for use at multiple locations and serve as the subject matter expert that other teams can utilize for platforms and projects across the Universal Destinations & Experiences (UDX) global portfolio. As the top architect, acts as a subject matter expert on technologies, and how the organization uses those technologies to enable best in class guest experiences. They will be responsible helping set the strategic direction for the technology in collaboration with architecture leadership and the CTO.

    MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Technology Roadmap Strategy & Planning
      • Act as the leader for the technology strategic roadmap. Own roadmap of platform rationalization to ensure the global portfolio is standardized to ensure efficiency across the company.Help set a strategic plan across the enterprise across all solution do
      • main areas.
      • Ensure alignment between data architecture, security architecture and infrastructure architecture.
      • Develop, and document plans and work with senior leadership to implement.
      • Work with senior executive leadership to present on technology and align on strategy
    • Enterprise Solution Design
      • Design enterprise-wide solutions with multiple complex integrations.
      • Create designs that can be re-used across the enterprise.
      • Create documentation that can be shared at a senior executive level and for implementation teams.
    • Technology Advocate, Innovation and Modernization
      • Conduct research on emerging technologies and work to implement these technologies in a technology roadmap.
      • Hold lunch and learns with teams to advocate new technologies.
      • Ensure understanding of new technologies from major vendors and the industry.
      • Work to enable innovation in new projects and solution.Ensure systems are modernized to provide new benefits and capabilities to team members and guests.
    • Platform rationalization
      • Help design and implement long term strategic goals for application and platform rationalization.
      • Ensure systems across the enterprise are appropriate and rationalize and combine to find efficiencies where possible.
    • Technical Collaboration
      • Collaborate with executive leadership, and senior technology leads across the organization.
      • Collaborate with other teams including delivery, project management, product, business transformation, quality engineering, IT security, infrastructure, and on-site support teams.
    • Governance and Standards
      • Create and maintain governance and standards for use across the enterprise focused on architecture documentation, patterns, and procedures.
      • Work with relevant leadership to help craft governance and standards for other systems such as performance and monitoring.
    • Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
    • Performs other duties as assigned.

    EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is required.

    EXPERIENCE:

    • 10+ years in IT experience with large integrated projects or equivalent combination of education and experience.
    • 5+ years in architecture or equivalent experience.
    • Prior experience leading development projects, strategic planning and resource management and implementation of large-scale applications.
    • Proven successful experience working with vendors ensuring they deliver based on development and delivery requirements outlined.
    • Experience working with agile techniques and mythologies.
    • Experience working with technical leaders and SMEs with achieving delivery of major projects or functionality with a high degree of quality and meeting expectations, including working hands-on with delivery and vendor teams on triaging and resolving issues/process blockers both pre- and post-production.

    Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

    Universal is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Universal Orlando via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from Universal Orlando HR/Recruitment will be deemed the sole property of Universal Orlando. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Universal Orlando as a result of the referral or through other means.

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