Data Architect

Houston, TX, United States

Company Conformance Statements

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to conform to the following:

Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision

Interact professionally with other employees, customers, and suppliers

Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments

Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations

Position Purpose

Ironclad Environmental Solutions has an exciting opportunity for a Data Architect responsible to plan, design, and implement our data strategy moving a high throughput, low latency, and highly intelligent transaction processing to on-prem and cloud environments. You will be a technical leader driving out the solutions to process in both public clouds as well as privately hosted cloud environments. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader, highly motivated and innovative, passionate about technology, creates strong partnerships, and has a proven track record for architecting and delivering mission critical solutions that meet customers needs, aligned to enterprise standards, and are cost effective.

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks Develop effective data architecture solutions that not only satisfy immediate project requirements but also align with a strategic vision, delivering a coherent, reusable, reliable, and phased architecture to help the business grow

Manages risks associated with data and IT assets through the development, use, and promotion of the appropriate standards, security, privacy, and governance policies

Translates business strategy and vision into a data strategy through partnerships with key business stakeholders

Governing data more effectively by establishing a data governance framework to establish process changes and data owners, and enforcing and monitoring vis tools for key sensitive data like PII, Customer IP, HR sensitive data, etc.

Conducts solution architecture design reviews for enterprise application solutions across all aspects of solution design, including infrastructure and distributed deployment (including public cloud and SaaS), information/data architecture, and integrations. Ensure solutions are fit for purpose and closely align with architectural guidelines.

Negotiates data architecture solutions with multiple parties and interests and presents architectural designs and technical visions to cross-functional teams.

Partner with Information Security teams to ensure data is secure and in compliance with GDPR, CCPA, Data Privacy, and data retention policies

Lead the Strategy and define the architecture principles for the transactional data warehousing platform (Data Lake vs. DW) and Customer Data Platform.

Prior experience as an enterprise data architect in a large enterprise supporting large, diverse user communities and business domains

Working knowledge of enterprise data management solutions and platforms (i.e., MDM, data governance, metadata management, ETL, data quality management, data warehouse management)

Possesses a broad knowledge of information technology architectures, principles, deployment, and operating models along with their application

Working knowledge of code migration practices, database changes, and various stages of data sets through the development life cycle

Provide thought leadership for the ongoing architecture of the data structure and the applications to enable elastic deployments within our enterprise ecosystem

Provide detailed subject matter expertise in data architecture.

Work with Business Owners and Senior Leadership to develop the platform's strategic roadmap and ensure appropriate architectural and technical items are suitably prioritized.

Work with other technology leaders to ensure that architectural principles are aligned where appropriate.

Produce key Architectural Documentation, including Overviews and Roadmaps, and use these to ensure formal architectural governance is correctly applied.

Collaborating with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects.

Overseeing the project’s development and ensuring that team members carry out their tasks efficiently while upholding the company's standards.

Drafting new and improving existing project management office policies and processes.

Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes, identifying problems, and evaluating trends

Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing Ironclad Environmental Solutions standards

Maintains professional and technical knowledge with the willingness to keep on learning

Work and liaise with the business on projects and cross-functional requests to ensure the solution supports our system architecture.

Other duties as required

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skill, and ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Education and Experience: 6+ years of experience as a Data Architect, Data Engineer, Data Analyst, or similar role in IT

A Bachelor's degree or a combination of experience and certifications.

Experience developing IT and cloud infrastructure.

Experience architecting and operating mission critical, high volume, low latency services onto elastic infrastructure ranging from public cloud to private data centers.

Experienced with architecting high-performance application data services against data stores with very large amounts of data

Experience with real-time data streaming tools such as Kafka, Storm, NIFI, AWS Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics

Database platforms: SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon S3, Azure

ETL/ELT tools such as Informatica, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Kafka Connect, or Oracle Data Integrator

Third-party platform applications such as Eloqua, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle ERP Cloud, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Master Data Management, and Customer Data Management platforms.

Experience transforming on-prem solutions to a hybrid cloud environment

Experience with multi-cloud providers

Experience with microservices architecture

Experience with running AI engines/rules engines and data caching technologies

Experience with distributed computing solutions

Strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to translate complex technical information for senior management and product team

Experience providing technical thought leadership across an organization

Strong leadership skills.

Strong attention to detail and technicalities.

Excellent organizational and technical skills.

Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.

Motivated self-starter with the ability to prioritize

Ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information.

Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills

Working Conditions

The Data Architect is a full-time salaried position for 40 hours per week. The work schedule will mostly be between 7:30-5:00, Monday-Friday, with occasional nights and weekends.

Physical Requirements Sitting at a computer 50% of the time

Bending, stretching, and occasional lifting of up to 30 lbs. are required

Professional presence and proper phone etiquette are required

Direct Reports Internal Data Engineers and Data Analysts will report to the Data Architect as direct reports.

External, third-party related staff will report to the Data Architect.

The company can change, modify, and assign duties to the job description anytime.