Data Architect - MSI
About The Position
The Data Architect is responsible for designing MSI’s enterprise data architecture and data management within the MSI ecosystem. As a member of the Data Services team, this role partners with Solution Architects, database administrators, Business Intelligence teams, and product and business leaders to design lakehouses and data warehouses that support the organization’s growing analytics needs. The Data Architect contributes to data strategy and implements a maintenance program to keep the operating environment aligned with business needs. The role evaluates evolving data architecture requirements, designs and optimizes data platforms and processes, and leads data migration and integration initiatives across operational systems. It also contributes to data modeling, security, backup, and management processes. Travel to a nearby office for onboarding, training, and team collaboration may be required.
Requirements
- Ten or more years of experience in data architecture and systems engineering, including ten years in a senior position responsible for owning corporate data security protocols.
- At least ten years managing data integrations across multiple platforms and deep technical expertise in database and dataset management.
- Experience with cloud-based data architecture, databases, and orchestration tools.
- Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Spark and Hadoop.
- Experience with PySpark and SparkSQL.
- Knowledge of semi-structured and unstructured data architectures and schema-on-read techniques.
- Deep experience with Microsoft Azure SQL databases.
- Deep experience with the Microsoft Azure environment, Microsoft Fabric, and its services.
- Functional expertise with a major cloud-based database platform, including developing and maintaining code.
- Experience analyzing current environments and developing and implementing plans to optimize performance and user experience.
- Experience managing enterprise data in multiple unique, cloud-based environments.
- Detail-oriented and proactive in taking measures to avoid or mitigate issues.
- Basic understanding of project management philosophies.
- Ability to make decisions with the best interests of the firm and end users in mind.
- Ability to demonstrate the firm’s core values and behavior aligned with its culture.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related field required.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Continuously evaluate the firm’s data architecture to ensure its structures meet evolving requirements.
- Evaluate data requirements and align them with new system and product designs.
- Partner with stakeholders, including Business Intelligence, database administrators, Solution Architects, Product, and Operations, to design and implement data architectures supporting integration, advanced analytics, and data science.
- Optimize data lake, data warehouse, and data orchestration processes and practices.
- Develop enterprise data migration and integration philosophies and plans.
- Collaborate on documenting conceptual and logical data models.
- Collaborate with Business Intelligence on designs for semi-structured and unstructured data.
- Own and manage data migration and integration initiatives between business operational systems.
- Contribute to the design of data management processes and protocols.
- Assist in defining data security and backup processes and protocols.
- Optimize data-related functions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
