Sr. Enterprise Data Architect

Overview

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident.

We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity.

Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you.

The Enterprise Data Architecture and Data Platform team is a central organization built to establish enterprise-wide standards and capabilities as scalable solutions to be used across the enterprise. This team defines and manages enterprise data architectures and AI data readiness working with Enterprise Architecture that ensures consistency, scale, controls and compliance to how data is managed. This organization is also responsible for enterprise capabilities including vendor solutions as product owners.

As a Senior Enterprise Data Architect, you will be accountable and responsible for coordinating, documenting, communicating and governing on enterprise Data and Data AI architectures. This role requires a deep understanding of modern cloud data and AI architectures, and excellent communication skills to effectively lead and collaborate with various teams and stakeholders. This role will also assist in the documentation of our target state architectures, guiding principles and frameworks.

This role may also be involved in training engineers across the enterprise. The governance of core platforms/tools may also be required. Seeking energetic and creative person who enjoys designing and implementing data and AI capabilities that can scale across the enterprise. This role will require hands on experience and will design and build frameworks for broader use in data and AI capabilities.

• Practicing accountability for self and sometimes others, provides process and standards advice in area of specialization
• Understanding and advocating EA principles and articulating value proposition of architecture to technology partners
• Managing and continuously improving the design and implementation of architecture processes and artifacts
• Ensuring our firm's projects engage architecture early and often on architecturally significant projects
• Reviewing key design decisions with departmental architecture review boards
• Ensuring decisions around architecture are made and deviations from standards are properly identified, addressed, and communicated. Raises issues to the Principal Architects and Senior Managers as necessary
• Participating in and leading reviews of projects that are in flight. Works closely with technical leads of projects contributing solutions to the project’s most challenging problems and able to be hands on as needed
• Ensuring that all individual solution architecture artifacts and changes are documented as per process standards and stored in T. Rowe Price’s EA Library to facilitate compliance, organization, and access
• Coordinating with other enterprise architects as necessary for solution architecture
• Taking control of complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way
• Balancing tactical vs. strategic trade-offs when making decisions or proposing solutions
• Flexibility in your thinking; you excel at providing solutions when additional information or ideas are presented
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Identifying when junior engineers need help and providing support in a positive way that promotes…