Business Information Architect

Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Requisition Number: 73651

Location: Remote or Corning, NY

Role Purpose

The Business Information Architect is accountable for ensuring business meaning, data, systems, and processes are explicitly defined, aligned, and consistently applied across data domains and systems. This role collaborates with the HR Data Governance Director, Data Architects, IT Architects, and business stakeholders to ensure data architecture supports governance, analytics, and business objectives. The Business Information Architect focuses on establishing clear business vocabulary, definitions, and rules, and on creating data products that are valuable, usable, and trusted in analytical systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure data, systems, and processes are aligned across data domains and systems.
• Collaborate with the HR Data Governance Director, Data Architects, and IT Architects to align data architecture with business definitions, data governance frameworks and IT strategies.
• Develop and maintain business concept models and vocabularies that define business meaning independent of systems and ensure appropriate alignment to downstream data models.
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and accuracy across systems by defining clear business rules and validating their correct enforcement across systems.
• Define, document, and govern business terms, concepts, and definitions to ensure shared understanding across business and technology teams.
• Maintain traceability between business terms and business rules, and ensure they are correctly reflected in downstream data and system implementations.
• Create and manage data products to be used in analytical systems, ensuring they are grounded in well-defined business concepts discoverable, reusable, and aligned with governance standards.
• Define data product characteristics, such as semantic consistency, data quality, accessibility, usability, scalability, and security.
• Provide guidance on data architecture best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure system and data solutions faithfully implement agreed upon business meaning and rules.

Experiences/Education – Required

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information management, or a related field.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data architecture, data governance, or a related field.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing business-aligned data architecture solutions and managing data products.
• Demonstrate experience defining and governing business vocabulary, terms, and business rules in complex organizations.
• Strong understanding of the distinction between business meaning, business rules, and technical implementations.
• Strong understanding of data governance and data management principles.
• Ability to express business terms and rules using appropriate modeling or documentation techniques; familiarity with data modeling tools is beneficial.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Experiences/Education – Desired

• Strong relationship‑building skills.
• Proven success working in a highly matrixed environment.
• Strong bias for action and ability to deliver results despite a complex and fluid environment.
• Cultural bias towards continual learning and sharing best practices.
• Experience in creating and managing semantically consistent data products for analytical systems.
• Familiarity with core characteristics of data products, such as semantic clarity, data quality, accessibility, usability, scalability, and security.
• Experience applying structured approaches to business rules, vocabulary or semantic modeling.
• Ability to challenge ambiguous language and drive precision in business definitions.

Ability to work collaboratively with cross‑functional teams, including Enterprise Data Architects, IT Architects, and business stakeholders.

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $154,702.00 - $212,715.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job‑related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.

Benefits

• Company‑wide bonuses and long‑term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well.
• As part of our commitment to your financial well‑being, we provide a 100% company‑paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career. Combined with matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, Corning’s total contributions to your retirement accounts can reach between 7% and 12% of your pay, depending on your age and years of service.
• Our health and well‑being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company‑paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family.
• Our recognition program celebrates successes and rewards colleagues who make exceptional contributions.

We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at [email protected].