Architect Lead, Shipboard

1 week ago

Miramar, Florida, United States Royal Caribbean Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead our Shipboard Technology team at Royal Caribbean Group. As a key member of our IT organization, you will be responsible for driving the development of our shipboard technology architecture, ensuring alignment with our business goals and objectives.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive technology roadmap for our shipboard environments, guiding the evolution of our IT landscape.
  • Contribute to the definition of our architecture vision, supporting our overall business strategy.
  • Lead matrixed teams of IT professionals through the Enterprise Architecture methodology, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
  • Support the development and implementation of our IT architecture across multiple operational brands and associated vessels within our parent company.
  • Exhibit deep understanding of the shipboard technology landscape, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement.
  • Aid in the oversight of integrated solutions, consisting of a blend of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom products.
  • Ensure that the appropriate amount of architecture is applied to requested initiatives, ensuring alignment with our business goals.
  • Help create and maintain architectural frameworks, guidelines, and strategies that align IT resources with business objectives.
  • Support enterprise architecture leadership with corporate initiatives, collaborating with various stakeholders and effectively communicating customer expectations.
  • Work closely with business leaders, IT leaders, and other stakeholders to understand their motivations, goals, requirements, constraints, and share the architecture vision.
  • Assist in the deployment and integration of IT solutions, ensuring consistency with our enterprise architecture.
  • Translate business priorities into information security requirements, ensuring protections regarding the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and privacy of our organization's information technologies and data.
  • Review and approve the design of IT solutions, ensuring they fit within our overall enterprise architecture and comply with established architectural standards and governance frameworks.
  • Create and maintain documentation for systems architecture, including diagrams, models, and reference architectures that detail the structure and components across architectural technology domains.
  • Depict enterprise data and information conceptually, logically, and physically.
  • Ensure that our architecture supports our organization's security policies and practices.
  • Stay abreast of changes in our business and business environment, as well as the evolving regulatory landscape and privacy practices likely to influence our organization.
  • Assess and select appropriate technologies, platforms, and tools that fit our enterprise architecture.
  • Identify risks associated with our architecture and propose solutions to mitigate.
  • Improve existing processes through solutions addressing recurring problems, not limited to integration, compatibility, and scalability of IT systems.
  • Conduct research on emerging technologies and trends, evaluating how they could be integrated into our existing architecture.
  • Identify and promote innovative technologies and practices that can improve business processes.
  • Conduct cost-benefit analysis for technology investments and architecture changes.
  • Manage the change control process when our architecture needs to adapt to meet evolving expectations.
  • Continuously improve skills and knowledge related to enterprise architecture methodologies, tools, and frameworks.
  • Provide regular updates to leadership on project progress, issues, and potential risks.
  • Ensure that all aspects of our enterprise architecture are well-documented.
  • Continuously assess our enterprise architecture for improvements and adjustments as business needs evolve.
Financial Responsibilities
  • Solid understanding of accounting rules for expense and capital spend activities.
  • Accountable for financial implications and cost of systems and services.
  • Provide guidance to ensure technology expenditures align with business objectives.
  • Responsible for defining optimization opportunities to manage cost.
  • Tracks effort hours by activity in time management tool.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree required, with an MS/MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 10 years in IT architecture, engineering, and operations.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams in a globally diverse model.
Competencies

Possesses proficiency, experience, and understanding of the core architecture competencies outlined below:

  • Business Architecture - Analyze the business requirements of stakeholders, provide optimal and efficient solutioning, and guide the quality assurance process as part of continuous architecture through implementation.
  • Cloud Computing - Define APIs needed to meet the business architecture and translate business requirements into cloud designs.
  • Data - Aid in creation of blueprints, data flows, data entities, and relationships needed to support the business architecture.
  • Data Design (Physical) - Understand the relationships between business data elements, aid in creating of data/database structures, ensure database meets expectations before business use.
  • Information Security - Aid in the implementation of IT Security solutions following published security controls and standards while identifying vulnerabilities.
  • Network - Troubleshoot technical problems while implementing networking solutions according to adhering to relevant policies and procedures.
  • Platform - Ensure that the platform architecture, including but not limited to hardware, languages, and Operating Systems, meets the business architecture.
  • Solution Architecture - Focus on the development of a solution architecture and flow of information needed to solve a business problem through a methodology to define business and computing requirements.
  • Systems Software Infrastructure - Understand low-level product-level details, related to software and infrastructure, during software testing processes as part of continuous architecture through implementation.
  • System and Technology Integration - Work with the applications, data, and technology bridges across a variety of systems to design appropriate communication between technologies and products.
  • Standards and Procedures - Participate in the creation of processes and policies, use of the methodology to design solutions, and communicate status.
Experience and Skills
  • Ability to set strategic architectural vision.
  • Demonstrated track record of expertise and domain knowledge of hospitality and maritime technologies.
  • Experience with Architecture frameworks like TOGAF or Zachman, FEA.
  • Understanding of Enterprise Architecture governance and planning processes.
  • Ability to lead a matrixed group of IT professionals, including full-time employees, staff-augmented contractors, and 3rd-party software providers in a team environment, both virtually and in-person.
  • Affinity for creating documentation and development of processes/procedures.
  • Evaluate application portfolios and develop modernization strategy.
  • Strong leadership and communications skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and coordination to ensure the successful creation and ongoing upkeep of technology roadmaps.
  • Experience with the development of formal written reports to communicate architectural design recommendations to all levels of technical teams, management, and leadership positions.
  • Self-motivated, forward-thinking, accountable, and empathetic.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills tailored to various audiences.
  • Proficient problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  • Capable of adjusting to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
  • Possess high character, tenacious, energetic, and a high degree of professional integrity.
  • Always maintain a professional appearance and demeanor.
  • Ability to defuse tension among project teams, should it arise.
  • Experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, and Application Performance Management implementations.
  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, o365 suite, DrawIO.

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