Principal Data Architect

Cox Enterprises • Austin, TX

1d • $179,700 - $299,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

Serves as a key contributor to the strategy, design, implementation and support for the data architecture, reporting platform and product catalog that underpin the Xtime fixed-ops portfolio. Works closely with business and technology leadership to establish an architectural framework and facilitate the definition of data strategy, standards, policies and roadmaps. Provides cross-cutting data, reporting and catalog architecture coverage across the Xtime portfolio and its net-new delivery teams, partnering with the portfolio’s Principal Architect and Integrations Architect to maintain a coherent architectural direction. Role Focus: Data architecture and the reporting platform across the Xtime portfolio. Product catalog — parts, services, and ops menus. Drives data strategy across Xtime teams as a horizontal, pattern-setting authority rather than a single-team assignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as master's degree and 8 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field; or 22 years' experience in a related field
• 10+ years of experience in full development life cycle, architecture design, and platform implementations
• Comes from a data architecture discipline / background, with demonstrated experience delivering enterprise scale ETL and reporting solutions
• Experience designing cloud architectures (preferably AWS, also GCP/Azure)
• Experience with Snowflake, MicroStrategy, Logi or similar enterprise data and reporting platforms
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and strategic thinking skills
• 5+ years architecture delivery and storytelling with ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences including business and technology leadership
• 5+ years in creating and communicating strategies, capabilities and solutions using architecture models, reference architectures, frameworks, diagrams and viewpoints

Nice To Haves

• Automotive industry background or interest

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business, engineering and product stakeholders to drive holistic architectural design across the data, reporting and catalog areas described below.
• Monitors industry and the competition for solution-focused technical and process changes and advances.
• Translates business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases and data warehouses.
• Helps define the data architectural framework, standards and principles, including modeling, metadata, security and reference data.
• Helps define reference architecture and patterns others follow to create and improve data systems across Xtime teams.
• Collaborates with data users, software and other technical stakeholders to structure effective data flows — from generation through transition to application.
• Architects the product catalog domain — parts, services and ops menus — including its data model, sourcing and governance.
• Owns the architecture of the reporting platform that powers dealer, dealer-group and OEM reporting across the portfolio.
• Defines patterns for OEM and dealer-group data feeds and report requests (e.g., multi-media reporting and OEM data feeds, service-pricing and parts/labor reporting).
• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology and interoperability requirements, producing high-level design deliverables that enable development teams to build flexible, scalable and secure reporting solutions.
• Creates proofs of concept to determine the viability of new or different data and reporting technologies.
• Provides systems architecture advice and support for the data, reporting and catalog domains across the Xtime product portfolio and its net-new teams.
• Works with portfolio stakeholders and customers to align the architectural direction of the solution intent.
• Drives structuring of the product vision, roadmap, priorities, enabler capabilities, non-functional requirements and solution demo activities for the data and reporting platform.
• Engages with cross-functional partners on PI planning, Architecture Sync, solution capability demonstrations, release management and alignment of technologies across initiatives.
• Consults with architecture, development, infrastructure and operational teams to address issues relating to systems/application architecture, including performance and availability.

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• retirement planning (401(k))
• paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director