Enterprise data architect job description

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Job Purpose
The Enterprise Data Architect will play a key role in shaping the new enterprise architecture environment at Graco. This role creates, evolves and governs the future state data architecture, providing direction for other architectural roles. The Enterprise Data Architect will have influence in executing Graco's enterprise data strategy program. The ideal candidate has a passion for using data as a strategic asset to drive business value.

Essential Duties
Collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to deliver a future state enterprise architecture and roadmap that enables business strategy and outcomes Maximize the value derived from data through effective governance, identification, storage, processing, modeling and provisioning Partner with Data Engineering leaders to execute the enterprise data strategy, including initiatives for data governance, metadata management, data quality, master data and privacy/security Lead architecture reviews, ensuring alignment with the enterprise architecture Supports the development and adoption of shared services and solutions across the enterprise Create and communicate recommendations to company leaders based on assessments of technology, business and industry trends Provide architecture consulting and mentoring services to stakeholders Other duties as assigned

Position Requirements
Education
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field of study

Experience
3-5 years of related experience Demonstrated ability to develop architectural models and roadmaps aligned with business capabilities and strategy Expert logical analysis and conceptualization skills Capable leadership, with the ability and courage to make sound decisions and drive change across the enterprise Data modeling expertise at the enterprise level Familiarity with data architecture concepts, including Master Data Management, data warehouse design, ETL/ELT, data pipelines and data security best practices Experience with distributed data management and analytics in cloud and hybrid environments Excellent understanding of system integration and data access approaches, such as microservices and event-based architectures Solid business acumen and experience developing business cases Good oral and written communication skills to effectively deliver messages to a wide range of audiences - from executive to technical Innovative and strategic mindset

Desirable
Strong programming background with languages such as SQL, Python, Java/Scala/Ruby, R, Hive QL or MapReduceData architecture on AWS, including Redshift, Microsoft AzureBig data architectures, such as HadoopFamiliarity with Business Intelligence tools, such as Cognos, Tableau or Microsoft Power BIExperience developing star schema data models for enterprise reporting needs.Predictive analytics technologies and concepts Data catalog and metadata management experience Agile methodologies, CI/CD and source control Familiarity with cloud-based data warehousing utilizing SnowflakeFamiliarity with data lake development using data pipeline tools such as Fivetran

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East Tennessee company is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to join their growing team.

Living in East Tennessee
It’s easy to overlook everything East Tennessee has to offer if you haven’t had the opportunity to spend time here. From spending your weekends downtown at Knoxville’s farmer’s market, the Rhythm n’ Blooms Music Festival, or the Dogwood Arts Festival, to some of the best hiking, kayaking, and camping in the U.S., not only in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park but all over the greater area, East Tennessee has something to offer everyone.The Enterprise Data Architect will spend approximately 80% of his/her time designing. Candidates should be able to draw out/canvas/diagram/document solutions. This role will require working with technical and business partners to understand the depth of concepts and needs and build the blueprints for the solutions teams. The Enterprise Data Architect must be able to work with BA’s to translate data flows into blueprints.

Enterprise Data Architect

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years Technical and Leadership Experience
• Experience interfacing with C-Level Executives required.
• Proven development experience and leadership of SQL Server Technologies (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
• Reporting platforms and solutions (Cognos, Tableau, MicroStrategy)
• Data Platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, Netezza, Cloud, Hadoop
• Leadership and core business/interpersonal skills.
• Ability to establish relationships with Business Teams.
• Strong PC skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Familiar with or desire to understand Big Data platforms

Experience:

• Data Architecture/Design: 3 years (Required)
• Hadoop
• Lucid Charts
• Visio
• Snowflake
• Oracle or SQL Preferred

Ideal candidates must pass a background and drug screen.

With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

As an enterprise architect, you'll work to ensure architecture cohesiveness and drive alignment to both business and technology objectives for initiatives that span multiple product areas and/or LOBs. You'll have a broad view of products, technologies, processes, and data and how they should work together to deliver business value.

This enterprise architect role is under the Self-Sovereign Cloud (SSC) technical pillar that is responsible for sandbox type cloud environments that allows the technical communities across Discover to accurately test and evaluate various cloud services. A key component in order to allow these sandbox environments to produce meaningful results will be to have the proper data sourced and controlled in these environments. This senior level architect will be responsible for the overall data architecture and modeling within these temporary cloud environments to help support evaluation and innovation initiatives at Discover. In order to be successful at this role, you will need to have had experience with various data architectures as well as have experience sourcing, controlling and tracking data across various types of environments. Your main goal in this role will be to work across Product Teams in order to determine the various data requirements and determine the best method in order to populate the sandbox environments with the most accurate data and ensure the data is tracked and controlled in order to minimize the risk to Discover.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains the architecture for sourcing, controlling, tracking, and managing data within the SSC cloud environments
• Works with various product teams to determine data requirements for the SSC environments, which could include synthetic data, obfuscated data, etc.
• Defines and optimizes the process in order to quickly source data into the SSC environments
• Defines and optimizes the process to refresh data in the SSC environments
• Identifies and makes recommendations around various data related toolsets that might be needed within the SSC environments

• Partners with other expert architects within the SSC domain to ensure that one cohesive product is being delivered to the technical communities within Discover

• Partners with business and IT leadership along with product area architects regularly to understand key business initiatives to ensure product area target architectures are aligned with enterprise architecture and industry strategies
• Provides insights and recommendations to Executive Committee on strategic architectural opportunities
• Consult on candidate architectures produced by product areas. Assists and guides product areas through the governance process
• Leads and/or contributes to architectures that span across product areas and/or LOBs
• Ensures other Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, and Infrastructure Architects are engaged and strategies are incorporated into target product area architectures
• Provides conduit for feedback loop between technology enablers (e.g., EAIS, Security, Data) and Value Streams
• Promotes consistent architecture practices across the architecture community. Stays current with industry architectures and best practices and influence enterprise technology strategy and initiatives

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

• Bachelors - Computer Science or related
• 10+ Years - Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or Related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of expert on the Dreyfus architecture scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• 5+ years in a Data Architect or data related role
• Practical experience with synthetic data platforms
• Practical experience scrubbing and anonymizing data from production environments
• Experience with public cloud data storage platforms and how to manage and optimize data in public cloud
• Experience with data tracking and data loss prevention tools
• Experience with test data management and integrating data movement into CI/CD pipelines

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

All Discover employees place our customers at the very the center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants - with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.