Director, Digital Architecture

Summary: 

The Director of Digital Architecture will oversee the design, development, and implementation of digital architecture solutions that align with the company's business objectives and technology strategy. This role involves defining the digital architecture strategy and collaborating with various stakeholders, and ensuring the scalability, security, and performance of digital platforms. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Develop and execute a strategic vision for digital architecture that aligns with business goals and technology strategy
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of digital architecture solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including application development, infrastructure, and business units, to ensure alignment and successful delivery of digital initiatives
• Oversee the selection and integration of new technologies and platforms to enhance digital capabilities
• Establish and enforce architecture principles, guidelines, and standards
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide recommendations for improvements and optimizations.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in digital architecture and recommend their adoption where beneficial

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

This position has supervisory responsibility. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in digital architecture or related roles, with at least 5 years in a leadership position

Professional Skills:

• Proven experience as a Digital Architect, with a strong emphasis on designing and implementing scalable, secure, and high-performance digital solutions
• In-depth knowledge of architecture frameworks, principles, and best practices
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, microservices, API design, and modern development practices
• Experience with digital transformation initiatives and leading large-scale digital projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to make sound decisions under pressure
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry standards related to digital architecture and security

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in the cinema exhibition industry or a technology-driven environment
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Knowledge of data architecture and analytics platforms

Language Ability: 

Must have good reading, writing, and speaking skills to effectively communicate with managers, and co-workers. 

Math Ability: 

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to develop and interpret charts. 

Reasoning Ability: 

Perform under pressure and/or opposition at times relying on your own independent judgment and knowledge to decide the best directions and solutions. While representing the company, the marketing coordinator will be required to determine answers to questions and situations which may be socially or politically volatile. Execution and communication of such solutions are often in the public eye.

 Computer Skills: 

Demonstrate advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite including, but not limited to Word, PPT, Excel, and Project. 

Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the environment is moderate.  

Personal Attributes: 

• Demonstrated skills to communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to a variety of individuals of varying technical expertise and understanding
• Demonstrate effective decision-making skills, even under pressure and while lacking all the desired information detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills to deal effectively with the business unit staff, as well as IT management and staff
• Must be a disciplined process-oriented individual able to lead implementation of best practice controls and processes
• Possess good problem-solving skills for a complex network topology, being able to escalate to appropriate groups while gathering pertinent information when addressing issues beyond personal scope to assist in identifying issues, root causes and solutions
• Must have proven ability to work successfully in a high volume, technically demanding job, providing excellent customer service while utilizing strong judgment
• Must be flexible and willing to travel to other locations
• Must be proactive in identifying and correcting infrastructure deficiencies.
• Must be a team player, excellent collaborator and leader
• Must be mature, poised, and confident in the face of adversity
• Must be highly organized and capable of providing technical leadership while requiring minimal day-to-day guidance

Physical Demands:

• The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear
• The employee is occasionally required to lift to 50 pounds
• The vision requirements include: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• The work involves considerable use of computer equipment and requires ability to use computer keyboard, mouse and screen effectively
• Employee may be required to be on call to respond to issues or problems which occur in the normal course of business, including early hours (before 0600) and late hours (post 1800) in the day