Senior Principal Data Solution Architect
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The Enterprise Data Architecture & Strategy team at Discover is looking for an experienced Data Architect to join a diverse team dedicated to data architecture, strategy and logical data modeling. On this team you will collaborate closely with others to understand enterprise requirements and develop and design data architecture.
In this role you will:
- Create reference data architecture for all data across the company
- Document current and target state data flows
- Be a thought leader and share your expertise with an extended team
Responsibilities
- Develops the technology roadmap for big data analytical solutions and real-time decision-making capabilities. Educates the organization on new analytical approaches.
- Identifies business analytical requirements and expected outcomes. Develops data analytics solution architecture and patterns to meet business needs.
- Recommends decision-technology integration patterns and designs, experiments, tests hypotheses, and builds statistical models. Conducts data analyses and designs algorithms.
- Designs data pipelines, conceptual data models, and physical and schematic data models.
- Partners with business analysts on the use of statistical tools, analytical tools, and decision engines.
- Drives optimal reference architecture that efficiently and effectively presents an integrated view of enterprise data for both operational and analytical needs.
- Defines logical concepts such as ODS, EDW, Data Marts and Operational Reporting (batch, real-time, near real-time)
- Documents current state data flows covering interfaces, data stores, transport technologies and the source and destination of data
- Creates target state data flows covering registered interfaces, alignment to reference architecture, alignment to sources of truth, Master data/CRM like solutions across the enterprise
- Promotes reusability with an enterprise view, simplifies architecture landscape
- Covers service-level requirements such as availability, volume of data, response time, and security and privacy.
- Provide guidance to application development areas by applying knowledge of data warehouse design, extract-transform-load (ETL) design and development
- Lead, mentor and coach data architects, applications architects and other team members
- Support the creation and implementation of data strategy and future state architecture
- Provide support for the roll-out of enterprise data modeling, data stewardship, metadata and data quality processes and tools.
- Present architecture vision to teams as well as to executive leadership
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Applied Statistics, Management Information System, or related field
- 6+ years of experience in hands-on programming, architecting and integrating solutions for complex business problems, and modernizing to next-generation data applications, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- 10+ years of relevant hands-on data architecture experience
- 4+ years of relevant hands-on exposure to building data and analytics solutions on AWS
- 2+ years of ETL architecture experience (Ab Initio or cloud-native tools)
- Experience with variety of databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, Maria DB, Snowflake
- Built architectural patterns at scale, including thoughtfully-designed data solutions, repeatable data pipelines, and efficient software engineering principles
- Sound understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure engineering and building future ready technology solutions
- Experience with building data warehouses, marts, business intelligence reports and operational systems
- Deep knowledge and understanding of emerging trends in the data space and ability to recommend solutions
- Experience leading and mentoring other data architects
- Strong executive presentation skills
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Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.
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