Data Architect - REMOTE

The Opportunity: Data Architects are responsible for designing data and information systems to support the organization's growing needs. Defines and communicates a shared technical and architectural vision to help ensure solutions meet the strategic needs of the company. Day in the Life: Serves as technical lead to strategic and enterprise level data driven projects, collaborates with other architecture areas and the wider organization. Follows and advises on industry standards and advances on data driven technologies and tools. Designs, implements, and updates best practices for the data development team. Represents project level data concerns to the enterprise board. Collaborates to mature data development standards and practices Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to architectural review board and technology review committee. Creates architectural artifacts along the project lifecycle to document technical requirements and vision Works with members of the product team to assess needs and determine the underlying issue that needs to be solved Must be able to collaborate with product to define requirements and translate into epics and features. Must be able to communicate technical content to a non-technical person Must lead projects across scrum teams offering architectural direction to those teams. Exposes project and solution related architectural issues to the wider architecture team. Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will offer secure solutions and will be effectively integrated with current applications Capable of defining the correct strategy maturity to deliver right sized solutions that are value oriented around business needs Creates enterprise level end-to-end data flow diagrams. Creates data consolidation and migration plans. Creates conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Designs ETL/ELT patterns for analytics and reporting systems. Reviews complex Azure Data Factory pipelines for various reporting and data development projects. Designs solutions for data lake, data lakehouse, data warehouses, and similar cloud data architectures. Creates and maintains documentation related to data development best practices, enterprise level data flow diagrams, and project code promotion. Provides recommendations to technology tools, products and services to help keep our environment on the cutting edge of technology. Ensure compliance with established SDLC (System Development Lifecycle) frameworks, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing & deployment. Ensure compliance with established Agile model (Scrum or Kanban, as applicable). Ensure compliance with all the audit requirements of the company. Perform duties as assigned. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in CIS, Data Science, Data Analytics or related field preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Seven (7) years of working in a data function or equivalent position where primary responsibility is working with data, database design, and data development is the primary responsibility. Best practices for encryption, tokenization, data development, and access control within a PCI (Payment Card Industry) environment. Ability to analyze enterprise level data sources and determine relationships between disparate sources. Determine methodologies for integration with third-party data sets. Expertise in data warehousing and data modeling methodologies, tools and best practices Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats and give presentations utilizing various audiovisual support aids Expert knowledge of data catalogs, master data management (MDM and ETL/ELT design. Snowflake or SQL Server development experience is a plus. Databricks experience is a plus Agile methodologies. Ability to plan, track and control projects in fast-paced environment, while managing multiple priorities/projects and meeting deadlines Thorough understanding of card payment industry, various processing systems, and/or related in-house applications is a plus Ability to travel as needed For California, Colorado and New York Applicants: In accordance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the expected salary range for this position is between: $110,100.00 - $143,100.00 Actual Pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position qualifies for the following benefits; Co-op Solutions offers a competitive Total Rewards package: 401(k) with generous company match, Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance options, Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term disability benefits, Pregnancy and Parental Leave, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays, Community Volunteer Time Off, and an Employee Assistance Program. #J-18808-Ljbffr PowerToFly