Global Data, Analytics & AI Architecture Manager

Lead the Data, Analytics, and AI (DAAI) Architecture function, shaping the target architecture, standards, and capability roadmap to enable company goals by leveraging data, analytics, and AI. Drive architecture governance, review boards, and decision-making to ensure consistent use case delivery, platform alignment, and harmonization of the AI, analytics, and data landscape. Partner with business and technology leaders to accelerate value creation and enable scalable, enterprise-wide adoption of data and AI capabilities.

Evolve and govern the DAAI target architecture, capability roadmap, standards, and architectural principles.

Lead the DAAI Architecture Board, ensuring effective architecture governance, decision-making, and exception management.

Establish and maintain reference architectures, reusable patterns, architecture decision records (ADRs), and governance frameworks.

Own architecture reviews, design gates, advisory services, and solution governance across Data, Analytics, and AI initiatives.

Guide use case routing and ensure alignment with approved platforms, delivery models, and architecture standards.

Define and enforce architectural guardrails covering security, responsible AI, FinOps, and cost-efficient solution design.

Drive the operationalization of architecture standards through close collaboration with Data and AI Platform teams.

Govern and rationalize the Data, Analytics, and AI application landscape, reducing duplication and improving technology alignment.

Monitor and report architecture governance effectiveness, compliance, pattern adoption, and landscape harmonization outcomes.

Lead, develop, and mentor a team of Enterprise and Solution Architects while providing strategic architectural leadership across the organization.

Hitachi Energy believes great work thrives in an environment where people feel genuinely supported and fairly rewarded. Its benefits are designed to create value for individuals, fueling engagement, performance, and growth. By prioritizing well-being, it aims to build a workplace where personal and organizational success grow together.

The benefit offering is tailored based on the country of employment and generally includes competitive salary and incentives, well-being and care, paid and unpaid leave, flexible work options, and benefits that support financial security.

• 10+ years of experience in Enterprise or Solution Architecture, with a proven track record of leading architecture governance in complex global organizations.

• Strong experience defining and governing target architectures, capability roadmaps, standards, and enterprise-wide technology strategies.

• Proven expertise in architecture governance, including architecture boards, design reviews, decision management, and exception handling.

• Experience establishing Responsible AI, security-by-design, and FinOps-by-design principles for AI and data-driven solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to translate architectural vision into scalable, platform-aligned capabilities and practical reusable enterprise solutions.

• Strong knowledge of cloud, data, analytics, and AI platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure AI services, Microsoft AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, and Databricks.

• Experience managing enterprise application landscapes, including dependency mapping, technology rationalization, and capability assessment.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior business and technology leaders across a global organization.