Senior Manager, Business Information Architect
- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us?
The Sr. Manager, IT Information System & Solution Architecture (Management Path), is primarily responsible for leading a team of architects to deliver successful IT system solutions. You will drive technical architecture projects, collaborate with various partners, and enhance system optimizations.
The Senior Manager, Business Information Architect is a leadership role within GPO Central Support and serves as the enterprise authority for information architecture within Alcon’s Global Process Ownership organization. This role defines the strategic direction, governance, and operating model for how information is structured and governed across global, regulated processes—enabling digital process excellence, compliance, and enterprise‑level interoperability.
In this role, a typical day will include:
- Define the enterprise information architecture strategy aligned to Alcon’s global process model, digital thread vision, and regulatory obligations
- Establish and evolve enterprise-wide taxonomies and ontologies, metadata frameworks, and semantic models spanning R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Manufacturing
- Act as a thought leader and advisor to Global Process Owners, Enterprise Architecture, and senior IT and business leadership
- Shape governance models that balance the need for standardization with business continuity and agility across regions and functions
- Provide architectural oversight for major transformational initiatives and platform evolutions impacting enterprise information
- Partner with other strategic IT roles to establish a community of practice for standards and patterns
- Ensure C2M information structures are AI-ready – FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) – to support downstream analytics and automation use cases
Financial and Business Results:
- Enterprise-wide impact across the C2M value stream and enabling technology teams
- Contribution to C2M process standardization, compliance readiness, business continuity, adoption, and value realization
Operational Excellence:
- Sets and continually improves architecture direction, standards, and decision frameworks
- Accountable for long-term information integrity, consistency, findability, compliance readiness, and scalability across C2M processes and platforms
People, Capabilities, and Management:
- Leadership or influence of Principal, Master Data Governance roles and Principal, Data Analysis & Visualization roles
- Effectiveness of stakeholder engagement, collaboration, knowledge transfer, and capability-building within the C2M operating model
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
- The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
- 7 Years of Relevant Experience
- 5 Years of Demonstrated Leadership
- Location: Onsite-Fort Worth, Texas
- Schedule: Day Shift – Monday - Friday, 8-5pm CT
- Travel Requirements: 0-20%
- Relocation: Is Authorized
- Sponsorship: N/A
Preferred Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
- Familiarity with TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN, Sparx EA, Erwin, Collibra, Alation, LeanIX, or equivalent tools
- Familiarity with modern cloud data and analytics platforms (e.g., Azure, Databricks, Snowflake) and how they integrate with the C2M platform ecosystem
- Familiarity with FDA 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, EU MDR, and GxP expectations
- Experience with PLM, MES, QMS, RIM, ERP, or similar enterprise content/data platforms
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:
- Collaborate with teammates to share standard processes and learnings as work evolves!
- See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities!
- Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!
- Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off for exempt associates, PTO for hourly associates, and much more!
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