Job description
Your success is a train ride away!
As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.
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Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
In this role, the selected candidate will lead Amtrak's Enterprise Architecture Team and Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices, for Amtrak's Digital Technology (DT) organization. As the overall EA leader, their job will be to proactively and holistically help guide the enterprise through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of future strategy.
The AVP EA leads, prioritizes, and develops the overall enterprise architecture approach for the organization, and communicates architectural direction. They have purview into other architecture-related activities and their respective roles (such as business, information, solution, and technical). The AVP EA responds to disruptive forces by helping the business (often through Product Management) and DT leaders facilitate the decision-making process and providing actionable recommendations on initiatives and policies to help the organization drive targeted business outcomes. The AVP EA helps enable governance driving key stakeholders to align within the prescribed oversight framework.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Leads the development of the EA service portfolio, ensuring they are aligned to the needs of the organization and EA’s key stakeholders.
- Recruits and develops the critical skills, competencies, and career paths for the EA team members; in particular, building the business and behavioral competencies needed to support the delivery of EA’s consulting services.
- Determines the extent to which the EA program has decision-making (governance) and compliance (assurance) rights. Ensures the role of EA in the project and product governance setting is one of guidance, advice, and oversight.
- Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support agility and adaptability.
- Helps the enterprise find the right balance between enterprise risk and agility. Communicates key EA positions to business and IT leaders to get buy-in and mandate.
- Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends, and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.
- Provides a perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate and supports the formulation of business strategy.
- Translates and executes business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
- Assesses disruptive forces impacting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable business strategy.
- Tracks and applies innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and uses agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.
- Builds the EA practice to become an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
- Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology, and other components of the enterprise, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
- Leads a collaborative “guild” of architects and works with a strategic committee/board to resolve conflicts between product lines and enterprise business outcomes.
- Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business toward its targeted outcomes.
- Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
- Works with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business outcomes.
- Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
- Leads the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture, based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for product-driven delivery teams.
- Facilitates a collaborative relationship across the architecture community, product management, and product delivery teams.
- Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools, and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
- Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management, and business development.
- Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture, business, and IT principles and processes.
- Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories.
- Experience with governance and MVP funding models
- Follows evolving market, industry, and consumer trends
- Intense curiosity to learn and question assumptions
- Adaptive thinking and a robust and critical mindset
- Coaching, mentoring, inspiring, and removing obstacles for team members
- Forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic situations
- Strong business acumen and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills.
- Balance of enthusiasm and realism in communicating ideas
- Highly proficient at project planning, budgeting, and oversight
- Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
- Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
- Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies, and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level (Experience with SAFe a plus).
- Understanding of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Remote location considered
- May travel up to 30% of the time
COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills
The salary/hourly range is $220,080-$285,220 AVP DT Enterprise Architecture. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, internal equity, etc. Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary. Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position and/or long-term incentive plan compensation. In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges. Learn more about our benefits offerings here.
Requisition ID:157418
Posting Location(s):District of Columbia; Maryland; Virginia
Job Family/Function:Information Technology
Relocation Offered:No
Travel Requirements:Up to 25%
Amtrak employees power our progress through their performance.
We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job – we want it to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging and rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, competitive pay, benefits that protect you and your family and a high performance culture that recognizes and values your contributions and helps you reach your career goals.
All positions require pre-employment background check verification, a pre-employment drug screen and proof of full vaccination against COVID -19. Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing. Marijuana, notwithstanding any statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Candidates who engage in the usage of marijuana will not be qualified for hire. Successful applicants for employment with Amtrak must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the date of hire as a condition of employment, subject to requests for accommodation. Fully vaccinated means 14 days have elapsed since receiving the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or 14 days since receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.
In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for public transportation ( Title 6 U.S.C. § 1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses.
Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.
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