Principal, Data Architect

Salary: Open + Bonus

Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience leading to a Senior Architect level.
• Experience in design of data lake/warehouse solutions, preferably in the cloud.
• Experience in schema design for relational and non-relational data and messaging protocols.
• Experience in design of data science and data analytics solutions.

Expertise with the following

• Kafka and Protocol Buffers
• SQL and No SQL databases
• BI tools (Tableau, Power BI etc.)
• Federated query tools such as Presto/Trino
• Data lake file formats such as Avro, Parquet, ORC

Responsibilities

• Design the data architecture of organization to support data driven vision.
• Create design and blueprint of the data capabilities for the organization within the data framework.
• Analyze structural requirements for new solutions and applications.
• Optimize new and current database systems.
• Responsible for requirements-based analysis and selection of data tools
• Responsible for setting up and enforcement of Data Modeling standards.
• Responsible for creating logical and conceptual data models.
• Assist in building data taxonomy and aligning it with business processes.
• Work with Data Governance, IT, and data stewards on design of the strategic solution to data quality issues.
• Drives short- and long-term architecture strategy for the overall IT project portfolio for key business segments.
• Responsible for comprehensive infrastructure designs including all aspects of IT.
• Communicates and validates program architecture with infrastructure, project management and technology services teams.
• Conducts end to end technical plan design.
• Develop enterprise standards to ensure compatibility and integration of platforms in a multi-vendor platform environment.
• Design and develop infrastructure and solution documentation and blueprints.
• Develops specifications for solutions integrations.