[Hiring] Director Architecture Operations @Sherwin-Williams

Role Description

The Director, Architecture Operations runs the operating backbone of the architecture function: the processes, data, tooling, reporting and budget that turn architecture decisions into portfolio action. This role owns how that work is requested, routed, decided, recorded, published, measured and funded. It does not set technical direction but ensures the direction that is set gets executed, on time and on the record, and that the function operates as a practice rather than a collection of individuals.

Responsibilities

• Governance Operations: Run the architecture review board as a process: intake and triage, agenda and scheduling, the decision log, and action and exception tracking through closure.
• Portfolio Data & Tooling: Own the architecture management platform and the data in it: application and technology inventories, ownership and lifecycle data, and the mapping of business capabilities to applications and technologies.
• Application Rationalization: Run the rationalization program: the inventory baseline, the retire, consolidate and invest roadmap, business cases and decommission plans, and tracking of realized savings and risk reduction against plan.
• Technology Acquisition & Lifecycle: Own intake and governance for new technology and vendor requests: overlap checks against the inventory, routing to the owning architect for standards fit, coordination of third-party risk review with Information Security and Procurement.
• Innovation Intake: Run the front door for emerging technology: intake and triage, proof-of-concept funding gates and exit criteria, pilot tracking, and the hand-off from a successful pilot to the owning Practice Architect for adoption as a standard.
• Operating Cadence & Reporting: Own the function's operating rhythm: the annual planning calendar and its tie-in to the capital and budget cycle, the operating review, offsite preparation, and the architecture scorecard.
• Budget & Capacity: Own the function's budget, tooling contracts and research and advisory subscriptions, and the view of architecture demand and capacity across portfolios.
• People: Manage and develop the analysts and architects assigned to each area: direction, performance, career development and hiring.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without now or in the future requiring sponsorship for employment visa status.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in the information technology (IT) field or at least 12 years of experience in IT architecture in lieu of a degree.
• 9+ years in technology.
• 3+ years of hands-on engineering or delivery work.
• 5+ years in technology operations, IT governance, application portfolio management, vendor management or a program office.
• 5+ years leading analysts or program staff, including hiring and performance management.
• Experience running an enterprise intake or governance process end to end.
• Hands-on administration of an application portfolio or architecture management platform.
• Experience with technology acquisition: vendor evaluation, contract and renewal management, and third-party risk review.
• Financial fluency: total cost of ownership, business cases, savings tracking and management of a departmental budget.
• Travel: 20%.

Requirements

• This is a remote position.
• This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future.
• Must be eighteen years or older.
• Job duties include contact with other employees and access to confidential and proprietary information.

Benefits

• Eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company’s applicable plans.
• A wide range of world-class benefits designed for you.
• Opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution.
• Inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities.