Business Information Architect I (MODERNIZATION - MULTIPLE LOCATIONS)

Purpose of Job We are seeking a talented Business Information Architect I (mid-level). The Candidate may work in the San Antonio, TX Home Office/Plano, TX Office, Any Regional Office and/or a 100% Remote Work Environment will be Considered

**THERE ARE 2 POSITIONS AVAILABLE**

Holds responsibility for the maintenance of the information to support the measuring and monitoring of enterprise business needs. Maintains the design around the full set of Enterprise information capabilities that support existing and strategic business capabilities.

Job Requirements

About USAA

USAA knows what it means to serve. We facilitate the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. This singular mission requires a dedication to innovative thinking at every level.

In each of the past five years, we've been a top-40 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For , and we've ranked among Victory Media's Top 10 Military Friendly Employers 13 years straight. We embrace a robust veteran workforce and encourage veterans and veteran spouses to apply.

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Tasks:

• Identifies and manages existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
• Follows written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities.
• Demonstrates knowledge of information governance practices and standards.
• Uses information architecture tools to include Infosphere Data Architect (IDA), Infosphere Governance Catalog (IGC), Infosphere Metadata Workbench to create information architecture deliverables
  Applies intermediate knowledge to perform regular assessments of the health and maturity of information capabilities for a given domain.
• Applies intermediate knowledge to identify new information capabilities needed to support existing business capabilities of a given business domain.
• Maintains the information capability repository with these identified needs.
• Participates in efforts to define the mission, goals, critical success factors, principles, and policies for information strategy and information architecture.
• Participates in building the business cases required to secure approval and funding for the Data and Analytical efforts.
• Applies intermediate knowledge to advise on the maintenance of a conceptual model supporting information capabilities for a given domain.
• Understands the end to end change impact by managing linkages from information capabilities to technical assets (operational + analytical).
• Maintains integrated logical data models to understand data and its interdependencies regardless of its usage pattern.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree or 4 additional years of related experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted in lieu of a degree in addition to the minimum years of work experience (8yrs total experience in lieu of a degree)

Minimum Experience:

• 4 years of experience in information or data architecture; or if Advanced degree, 2 years experience in information or data architecture.
• Previous experience with modern data architecture environments (Cloud, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.).
• Proven ability to embrace new technologies of the future and operationalize these to deliver value (Data Virtualization, Cloud).
• Understand how to work with data analysis tools and leverage reporting and data analysis that molds the way user experiences are designed.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.

*Qualifications may warrant placement in a different job level*

When you apply for this position, you will be required to answer some initial questions. This will take approximately 5 minutes. Once you begin the questions you will not be able to finish them at a later time and you will not be able to change your responses.

Preferred Experience

• Knowledge and experience with the Property & Casualty business, Data, and/or Systems.
• Knowledge of Information Management Disciplines such as Data Quality, Metadata Management, and Governance.
• Knowledge of analytical environments and tools.
• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

At USAA our employees enjoy one of the best benefits packages in the business, including a flexible business casual or casual dress environment, comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, along with wellness and wealth building programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education will assist you with your professional goals.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

For Internal Candidates:

Must complete 12 months in current position (from date of hire or date of placement) or must have manager s approval prior to posting.

Last day for internal candidates to apply to the opening is 10/05/20 by 11:59 pm CST time.

Associated topics: cloud architect, equipment, infrastructure, maintain, maintenance, network, senior system engineer, system architect, system integrator, systems integration architect