Title: Azure /Snowflake Data Architect
Location: Leawood, KS (Remote)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Job Description:
As a Data Architect, you will partner with application development, product, and architecture trams to develop data strategies and platform roadmaps while driving a culture of ownership, quality and execution.
The Data Architect is responsible for visualizing and designing customer's enterprise data management framework.
Where you'll work
This position will work a hybrid schedule from either our Leawood, KS or Burlington, MA office locations preferred. Remote will be considered within the United States.
How you'll spend your time
- Design and architect data systems, including databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
- Define entity relationship diagrams in collaboration with the business intelligence team to align data product designs.
- Develop a framework for how data is modeled, stored, organized, and accessed.
- Establish a common data dictionary to maintain consistency across the organization.
- Collaborate with key business and technology stakeholders to develop and implement data strategies which align with business processes.
- Responsible for ensuring data security and compliance with regulations.
- Review and analyze data infrastructure, identify data sources and define data management policies.
- Develop and maintain necessary APIs in support of the organization's application and data requirements.
- Establish a data management plan which introduces consistent and common data architecture with new and existing solutions.
- Accountable for overall health and quality of data solutions, systems and platforms.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with business intelligence team, business stakeholders, and technical staff on-site and in virtual environments.
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WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Bachelor's degree in computer-related field or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years experience with SQL and alternatives such as MySQL
- 3+ years experience with Snowflake
- 5+ years experience with Azure Data Lake
- 5+ years experience with Tableau, PowerBI, or similar products
- Experience with a micro-services architecture, containerization, Azure cloud, and SaaS solutions.
- Experience with SDLC and agile software development methodologies. Demonstrated ability to implement agile practice in an organization.
- Demonstrated ability to inspire confidence, ownership, and accountability in the platforms within scope.
- Proven experience influencing and building trusted relationships across all levels of the organization.
- Proven experience creating a vision, long-term roadmap and team execution to achieve the outcomes of plan.
- A thought leader that adds value to the business and demonstrated ability to apply business logic to technical situations.
- Demonstrated ability to create an atmosphere of accountability and ownership in a cross-functional and matrixed org.
- Proven experience with applying a customer first and product mindset towards engineering.
- A change agent that delivers results to customers.