Hybrid Digital Information Architect

at Agilent Technologies

• Job title: Digital Information Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $119,200 - $223,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Wilmington, United States

About the role

• Digital Information Architect developing enterprise level taxonomies and content models for digital platforms. Collaborating with UX teams, governance, and stakeholders for structured content publishing and findability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise level taxonomies, ontologies, metadata schemas, and content models for digital platforms and knowledge ecosystems.
• Architect scalable information frameworks supporting content reusability, cross-product discoverability, personalization, and structured content publishing.
• Conduct information mapping, process modeling, and content audits to identify structural improvements and gaps.
• Partner with UX teams to ensure information architecture aligns with user journeys, usability requirements, and accessibility standards.
• Establish governance models for metadata quality, controlled vocabulary updates, and cross system content lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with Data Governance, Legal, and Security to ensure compliance with policies, privacy regulations, and data stewardship practices.
• Align information architecture with product strategies, roadmaps, and feature requirements; advise on data and content dependencies.
• Collaborate to design scalable technical implementations, APIs, and data structures that support IA frameworks.
• Co-develop navigation patterns, search behaviors, labeling systems, and page structures that deliver intuitive user experiences.
• Provide structured content models, tagging frameworks, and governance workflows to improve content quality and findability.
• Facilitate workshops to gather requirements, translate business needs into IA specifications, and drive consensus across functional groups.
• Present IA strategies, roadmap recommendations, and key metrics demonstrating value to enterprise digital initiatives.
• Partner with search engineering teams to optimize metadata strategies, indexing rules, faceting, synonyms, and ranking logic.
• Conduct user research and analytics reviews to continuously improve search performance and content discoverability.
• Work with enterprise CMS, PIM, DAM, CRM, and knowledge management systems to ensure consistent and scalable information frameworks.
• Evaluate new technologies and platforms that support structured content, headless architectures, and intelligent information delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Knowledge Management, UX Design, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in information architecture, structured content strategy, knowledge engineering, taxonomy design or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of metadata modeling, ontology design, and content management systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross functional workshops and influencing stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and visual modeling skills (e.g., diagrams, IA maps, schema representations).
• Preferred: Experience in life sciences, instrumentation, or complex technical product environments.
• Familiarity with CMS, enterprise search technologies, and API driven content delivery.
• Experience working in agile product development environments.
• Familiarity with EXCEL or other data analysis tools

Benefits

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