Data Architect

Roberts Recruiting•Boston, MA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

In 2007, two software engineers and serial entrepreneurs founded our company. We are the world’s largest online marketplace for catering – a $60+ billion market in the U.S. We make it superbly easy for businesspeople to find and order great food for meetings and events, and we help our catering partners grow their business. We’re backed by $320 million in venture funding and valued at over $1 billion. Our mission is to power the world’s catering, and we’ll make it happen – even more surely if you come help us. Specifically for this role we’re looking for a Senior Data Architect who is passionate about developing high-quality data solutions. Our growth is driven by informed decisions in all corners of the company. We’re building a best-in-class data warehousing solution, and we need a data architect to partner with the product and other teams to own the overall data architecture and data models. We push ourselves every day to get more data, create a fantastic data analytics and data science experience for our users and craft real-world solutions to unlock the value of our information.

Requirements

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
7+ years architecting and delivering commercial cloud-based data lake solutions
Extensive hands-on experience with SQL and database technologies, including data modeling at the business, logical, and physical levels
Hands-on experience with a Big Data ecosystem using technologies such as Snowflake and/or RedShift
Experience implementing data acquisition solutions using a variety of software solutions
Experience with enterprise-scale BI and ML software solutions (e.g., Tableau, AWS Sagemaker, Periscope, Looker)
Highly analytical, proactive, and detail-oriented, with a deep interest in data
Interest in complex data challenges with a clear eye on what is important using the right methods to make the maximum use of time and human resources.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, demonstrating thought leadership across multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders

Nice To Haves

Experience in metadata management, data lineage, data governance, and data security

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and governance of our big data strategy
Implement measures to organize and model our data, ensuring the accessibility, accuracy, security, and completeness are accounted for
Research and suggest tools and technologies to improve data lake access, ingestion, storage, and processing methods
Collaborate with product, software and architecture teams to review and make recommendations about the distributed data model for our products
Stay up to date about compliance, regulatory and emerging industry standards and their impacts on our data solutions
Monitor, refine and report on the performance of data management systems
Work closely with and support our data consumers to develop data solutions and algorithms that make their jobs easier
Treat data quality as a 1st class deliverable, because it is