Data Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

• Work with business customers, leadership, and product owners to understand integration data needs.
• Enforce data governance policies, standards, and best practices.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of data architecture and integration processes.
• Influence data owners, modelers, engineers, and analysts to recommend relevant solutions.
• Define integration data flows across organizational parts.
• Design sophisticated data models ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Ensure data security and compliance with privacy regulations.
• Stay ahead of emerging data technologies and recommend enhancements.
• Collaborate internally to deliver products that align with Ferguson’s strategy.
• Prepare detailed design specifications for implementations.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex problems and provide solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in information technology, computer science or related field preferred.
• 4+ years of hands‑on experience working in data integrations across different business domains.
• Developed innovative architectural designs for large commercial enterprises (5000+ associates).
• Expert level experience defining system architecture and delivering comprehensive solutions.
• Hands‑on experience with integration as it relates to data constructs (designing and developing data transformations).
• Knowledge of MongoDB, Oracle RDBMS, Java and Webservices preferred.

Hard Skills

• data integration
• data governance
• data architecture
• data modeling
• data accuracy
• data integrity
• data security
• data compliance
• data transformations
• system architecture

Soft Skills

• collaboration
• influence
• problem solving
• communication
• documentation

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science