Title: Senior Data Architect
Start Date: ASAP
Bill Rate: TBD
Position Type: Contract
Locations: Middletown, PA
Primary Responsibilities
Start Date: ASAP
Bill Rate: TBD
Position Type: Contract
Locations: Middletown, PA
Primary Responsibilities
- Understand current state architecture, including pain points.
- Create and document future state architectural options to address specific issues or initiatives.
- Maintain in-depth and current knowledge of the Cloud architecture, Data lake, Data warehouse, BI, IoT platform, Platform to develop and deploy advanced analytics models and ETL tools
- Work with both technical and business stakeholders to understand data needs for projects.
- Perform any of the following as needed: requirement analysis, data profiling, effort estimation for database and data warehouse design and development.
- Provide thought leadership around the use of industry standard tools and models (including commercially available models and tools) by leveraging experience and current industry trends.
- Provide guidance on the creation and best practices around Data Governance, Data Stewardship and overall Data Quality initiatives and processes as part of the overall data effort.
- Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling in a relation database, Bigdata, in-memory and MPP architectures.
- Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling in a relational database, Bigdata, in-memory and MPP architectures.
- Design and model the data architecture by combining data from SAP and non-SAP systems as well as structed and unstructured data
- Collaborate with the Enterprise Architect, consulting partners and client IT team as warranted to establish and implement strategic initiatives.
- Make recommendations and assess proposals for optimization.
- Identify operational issues and recommend and implement strategies to resolve problems.
- 8+ years implementing enterprise Data & Analytical solutions in a complex environment including structured and unstructured data.
- 5+ years working as a Solution Architect with depth in data integration and data architecture for Enterprise Data Warehouse implementations (conceptual, logical, physical & dimensional models).
- 3+ Experienced in AWS data lakes and its services like S3, Athena, RDS, EC2, Sage maker and Redshift
- Multiple experiences implementing solutions for advance analytics using open source (Cloudera based solutions and AWS based solutions are preferred)
- Experience in Cloudera Data Science Workbench or AWS/Azure Advance Analytics platform, with strong curiosity to learn and apply data science techniques. Experience in building data science models is a plus
- Sound knowledge of Shell Scripting. Ability to collaborate with management, users, contract resources, vendors, and other IT teams
- Strong problem-solving capabilities. Results oriented. Relies on fact-based logic for decision-making.
- Experience designing and implementing ETL/ELT strategies (Talend, BODS)
- Ability to work with multiple projects and work streams at one time. Must be able to deliver results based upon project deadlines.
- Willing to flex daily work schedule to allow for time-zone differences for global team communications
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards
- Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings, etc.
- Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard and monitor
