Director, Principal Architect

Universal Orlando Resort believes in-person collaboration is key to our success. Many of our Team Members work in a hybrid capacity, contributing from the workplace a minimum of three days per week. There are also roles that require being on-site full time. Limited remote opportunities may be available within specific departments. You’ll learn more about this during the recruitment process.JOB SUMMARY:

The Director, Principal Architect role is to be the strategic leader for global enterprise, solution, and application architecture. This individual works closely with executive leadership to help shape the vision and determine the technology solutions and roadmap to support a global business; works closely with the architecture team to enable a strategic vision for the functional discipline; and enables senior architects to design and build individual solutions.The architect ensures the platform has a cohesive vision while ensuring integrations ensure security, performance, reliability, reusability, and scalability. This role is involved in the design of a global, standardized platform across multiple value streams. They will design a landscape of new enterprise-wide systems for use at multiple locations and serve as the subject matter expert that other teams can utilize for platforms and projects across the Universal Destinations & Experiences (UDX) global portfolio. As the top architect, acts as a subject matter expert on technologies, and how the organization uses those technologies to enable best-in-class guest experiences. They will be responsible for helping set the strategic direction for the technology in collaboration with architecture leadership and the CTO.MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Act as the leader for the technology strategic roadmap. Own roadmap of platform rationalization to ensure the global portfolio is standardized to ensure efficiency across the company. Help set a strategic plan across the enterprise.Ensure alignment between data architecture, security architecture, and infrastructure architecture.Develop and document plans and work with senior leadership to implement.Work with senior executive leadership to present on technology and align on strategy.Design enterprise-wide solutions with multiple complex integrations.Create designs that can be reused across the enterprise.Create documentation that can be shared at a senior executive level and for implementation teams.Conduct research on emerging technologies and work to implement these technologies in a technology roadmap.Hold lunch and learn with teams to advocate new technologies.Ensure understanding of new technologies from major vendors and the industry.Work to enable innovation in new projects and solutions. Ensure systems are modernized to provide new benefits and capabilities to team members and guests.Help design and implement long-term strategic goals for application and platform rationalization.Ensure systems across the enterprise are appropriate, rationalize, and combine to find efficiencies where possible.Collaborate with executive leadership and senior technology leads across the organization.Collaborate with other teams, including delivery, project management, product, business transformation, quality engineering, IT security, infrastructure, and on-site support teams.Create and maintain governance and standards for use across the enterprise focused on architecture documentation, patterns, and procedures.Work with relevant leadership to help craft governance and standards for other systems, such as performance and monitoring.Understand and

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