Job Description
Job Title: Senior Data Architect
In-office
Direct Hire
Location: Tysons, Virginia
Our client is hiring a Senior Data Architect at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this role is to analyze business strategy, Data/Analytics platforms and recommend solutions that efficiently and timely addresses the business imperatives.
Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
* Work with the Line of Business Leaders, IT leaders and Enterprise architecture leads to develop and enrich current and future state Data & Analytics Platform architecture and Data/Analytics program roadmap.
* Provide thought leadership around best practices and emerging concepts in Data & Analytics domain.
* Lead and Develop Data integration/Consumption Patterns & Data Landscape diagrams.
* Develop & Mature Data Capability model to support benchmark analysis
* Stand up Design review board for Analytics and Data platforms using industry best practices.
* Translate functional and technical requirements into highly scalable and optimized architecture design.
* Engage and Deliver technology evaluations in Data and Analytics domain.
* Represent Data Architecture in the Enterprise Architecture Center of Execution board.
* Contribute to document Data design solutions in the solution architecture and technical design documents.
* Work closely with Data scientists to understand their data preparation needs and provide technical mentorship for developing Machine learning based analytical models.
Licenses and Certifications
* AWS Solution Architect Associate/ Big Data Specialty certification is preferred.
* Snowflake certification is preferred.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise. *Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*
Travel
Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call is required.
Special Message Regarding COVID 19
Our client is continuing to hire and train exceptional individuals to help us serve our 2 million members both here and around the world. In light of the current situation with novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we have modified our hiring, onboarding, training, and deployment protocols in order to comply with current local and state guidance around social distancing.
Qualifications:
Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Masters’ degree preferred.
* Minimum of ten (10) years of hands-on architect and solution development experience in large scale complex Data warehousing projects.
* Minimum five (5) years of hands-on solution architect experience on both on-premise (Cloudera) and Cloud based (AWS/Snowflake) Data Lake platform and solutions.
* Minimum of seven (7) years of Data Modeling experience.
* Minimum of five (5) years of experience with Data lifecycle and Metadata management products
* Minimum of two (2) years of work experience with one or more relevant data ingestion technologies (Python, Pyspark, Spark, Scala, Kafka)
* Minimum of two (2) year of work experience with one or more SQL (Hive, Presto, SparkQL, Athena, SnowSQL) on Big Data Platform.
* Minimum of two (2) years of work experience on AI/Machine Learning capabilities enablement.
* Exposure to Data Analytics platforms such as Tableau and SAS is a must
* Must be familiar with Agile based delivery approach.
* Prior experience leading ETL work, Data warehouse/Data Lake development a plus.
* Ability to work as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and positive attitude.
* Must have excellent communication skills.
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