Senior Information Architect

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

ARC’TERYX is growing – in guest experience richness, in variety and sophistication of business models, in operational volume, global markets and advanced workflows. The Technology group and the architecture practice are a key part of supporting and accelerating ARC’TERYX!

We believe that Information Architecture, done right, is the cornerstone of informing and enabling innovative solutions and workflows; led by experienced professionals who bring their expertise and insight to the craft of creating intuitive information structure that drives superior process and inter-system communication. Developing robust information models and ensuring seamless access to information in a dynamic environment, while collaborating with teams from product owners to developers, is central to our practice.

We are seeking a special candidate to advance our enterprise architecture practice bringing an information architecture lens to end-to-end solutions and systems strategy serving our global business. The right candidate passionately sees information as not static and at rest but as constantly in-flight, representing the dynamic communication and vocabulary between our business domains and their underlying systems.

This role can be hired remote. Remote candidates must be committed to Pacific time zone hours aligned with the ARC’TERYX headquarters location in North Vancouver, B.C. Open to applicants residing in the United States and Canada.

Meet Your Future Team:

Information architecture is an integral part of the enterprise architecture discipline. The enterprise architecture team is an enabling group in our Technology department supporting our business application, service platform, and PMO teams. We research and produce architecture options for business projects and major initiatives, align projects with strategic priorities and policies, own and maintain explanatory views of extant systems, and guide tool and vendor strategy. Working directly with product management and software engineering teams, we ensure architecture plans transition successfully to delivery and operation.

As a component of the over-arching engineering excellence practice, the enterprise architecture team are also key sponsors and stewards of the engineering guild providing community, best practice, emerging trends, education opportunities, role definition, and career guidance to our family of IT engineers.

If you were in the Senior Information Architect role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Creating scoped conceptual and logical architectures for product leaders with trade-offs, policy adherence, risk advisement, and alignment with group and global platform strategy
• With enterprise architecture, documenting and developing business domain information structures to ensure accessibility and usability in new projects and ongoing operations
• Partnering with the Omnichannel Platform domain teams, designing and refining interface definitions and data exchange schemas, aligning related application designs, roadmaps, and tool choices to ensure superior business event and business service consumption and leverage
• Partnering with the Data & Analytics team to enhance our Data Platform and inform physical data architecture from conceptual and logical information architecture expressing Arc’teryx end-to-end business domains and process flow
• Providing subject-matter expertise and ownership to build our architecture modeling practice using LeanIX tools, with special focus on relating business data models to applications and business capability management.

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Leading the design and implementation of AI-empowered information solutions, ensuring seamless integra…