Senior Data Architect

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with other Architects, engineering leaders and product managers to lead teams in requirements definition, domain modeling, design, architecture evaluation, and implementation of our systems and services
• Define and document data patterns, standards, and practices
• Apply systems thinking to our data architecture and technology platforms to drive optimizations for speed of delivery, quality, and maintainability
• Work across the organization to foster a culture of data design and architecture that encourages and supports iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Partner with our security team to refine our data security strategy while encouraging a security-first mentality across the organization
• Guide the engineering and product teams in anticipation of future data needs and craft design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes within our data systems
• Meet business needs by collaborating with business partners to assist with defining and delivering our technology and product roadmap
• Ensure high functioning distributed systems by defining and refining our domain models and their underlying data models in collaboration with engineering and product teams
• Challenge our business and technical status quo to help build new product capabilities by creatively changing technical strategy or overcoming constraints
• Exemplify our engineering standards/methodologies and provide exceptional technical direction to teams
• Own organizational data architecture practices, governance, and processes as well as their continuous improvement

What it requires:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data or related. Or relevant experience in lieu of the dgree
• 7+ years of data engineering/architecture experience 
• Experience in Agile methodologies, Data Governance, and Micro-service Architecture Design and Development
• Expertise in building and owning data models spanning multiple services and APIs, unit and integration testing, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Expertise with Azure cloud platform and available services (or equivalent AWS, GCP concepts)
• Strong expertise in database technologies (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), ETL (SSIS, Azure Data Factory, etc.), queuing, messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and modern source control (Git / Github)
• Experience with data warehouse designs sourced by multiple contributing systems
• A commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively explain technical concepts to other engineers, analysts, product managers, and team members
• A strong history of being a team player and driving for team success
• Proven curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies
• Willingness to adapt to change and work within a fast-paced environment