Sr. Data Architect

Job Description

• Model desired organizational behavior as defined in the company values and leadership competencies
• Cultivate and promote an organizational culture that provides for high performance, high morale, integrity, teamwork, and work-life balance
• Lead, support and influence the achievement of the mission, goals, and objectives of the department and corporation
• Contribute to technical design, decision-making, and tactical planning at the enterprise level
• Influence technical designs at the enterprise level and actively participate in setting technical direction of the styles of computing
• Actively participate in architecture governance (may be as a non-voting member)
• Lead large development, installation or support teams and ensure the tactical implementation of computing styles and architecture
• Lead solutioning/design sessions with a program perspective in association with all interdependent systems
• Lead and facilitate the analysis, design, programming and implementation of viable solutions to highly complex business problems according to user specifications
• Consult across multiple projects and technology areas at the same time to perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and solution implementation
• Identify and resolve business issues related to projects by evaluating, recommending and presenting alternatives and then coordinating and executing issue resolution, escalation and follow-up as required
• Identify measures or indicators of system performance, analyze trends to proactively prevent problems and identify actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system
• Work across projects to synchronize project plans, data analysis efforts and deliverables and to coordinate project activities across functions
• Contribute to estimates, task identification and sequencing pertaining to complex technical project activities and overall project schedules
• Respond immediately to production program problems and issues and manage resolution and escalation as required
• Actively participate and contribute to future Infrastructure Releases and Middleware/Hub
• Actively participate in checkpoint and design reviews
• Work with Business, support or development teams in recommending process or system enhancements, including those that would minimize maintenance costs
• Ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound and integrated
• Ensure that chosen technology and coding solution is flexible, supportable, and requires minimal maintenance
• Ensure that systems software are thoroughly tested
• Develop or approve detail program specifications
• Negotiate and manage customer and team relationships at a project level
• Maintain focus on internal and external customer requirements and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of customer needs
• Present at a leadership level
• Stay abreast of industry developments and emerging technologies to provide recommendations to Architecture Engineering groups
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree (in lieu of degree 11 years of experience in Business, Engineering and/or IT environment)
• 7 years of work experience in Business, Engineering and/or Information Technology environment
• Prior experience leading project teams and guiding implementation efforts
• Expert knowledge of computer or network systems hardware and software theory, practice, concepts and technology
• Expert knowledge of technical/business environments
• Ability to write code and advise the work of Software Developer Engineers
• Understands Strategic Technical direction of:
  • Middleware
  • Systems Management
  • Enterprise Data & Access Layers
  • Pertinent Styles of computing
• Understands the following:
  • impact of design decisions to the computer (performance, etc.)
  • technical behavior of the underlying operating system
  • technical behavior of the compiler and tools
  • ALL functional aspects of the tools and development environment
  • functional and technical behavior of the middleware and data layers
  • DevOps, deployment environments
  • packaging and distribution of the application
  • operations/run requirements
• Ability to deal with complex technical issues and make appropriate trade-offs as required
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Ability to design how a system should work and understand how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple projects or technology areas
• Ability to evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and influence technical designs
• Adaptable to change
• Proficient knowledge of project management methodology
• Sufficient business knowledge to assess impact of applied technology on customer's business processes
• Ability to review technical work of less senior staff

• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems
• Expert level experience in a single technology area or broad system-level expertise across multiple computing platforms and technologies
• Ability to recommend and influence improvements across Information Technology departments
• Ability to drive and foster integration and communication across technology groups and projects
• Ability to recognize and communicate patentable ideas
• Industry experience
• Technical expert with:
  • Modern data architecture comprised of centralized cloud-based data and cloud-based tools, including:
    • Analytic data warehouse such as Snowflake
    • Data visualization tools such as Microsoft PowerBI and Tableau
    • Business Intelligence platform such as SAP Business Objects
    • Data governance framework and tools
  • Inbound and outbound data integration methods, such as:
    • ETL/ELT
    • Batch file-based
    • API-based with MuleSoft for:
      • Events/messages
      • Ad-hoc API-based