Enterprise Data Architect POST NUMBER: 454815
This is a hybrid role: part strategist, part hands-on engineer, and part leader. You’ll work across Technology, Finance, Claims, Product, and Marketing to unify the company’s fragmented data landscape into a trusted, consistent, and scalable platform for analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.
What You’ll Do
- Architect & Strategize: Define enterprise data strategy, standards, and governance across on-prem and cloud platforms.
- Engineer & Build: Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines, schemas, and models that unify data sources and optimize performance.
- Normalize & Govern: Establish frameworks for data quality, master data management, and metadata documentation.
- Partner & Translate: Work with business leaders to understand requirements and deliver solutions that drive value.
- Lead & Mentor: Provide technical leadership and guidance to data engineers and analysts.
- Enable & Optimize: Support BI and analytics teams by ensuring data warehouses, marts, and reporting environments are accurate and performant.
- Forecast & Scale: Plan for future growth in data volumes, tools, and integrations while aligning with company objectives.
What You Bring
- Proven experience as a Data Architect with hands-on data engineering background.
- Deep expertise in relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, DB2/iSeries) and cloud data platforms (Databricks, Azure, AWS).
- Strong SQL development skills with advanced optimization.
- Experience with ETL/ELT frameworks, data pipelines, and automation.
- Background in data modeling, master data management, and governance.
- Proficiency with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Excel) and integration to back-end data stores.
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to balance high-level strategy with detailed technical execution.
Expanded Qualifications
Technical
- Expertise with ETL/ELT tools (Azure Data Factory, Airflow, dbt, Informatica, Talend, SSIS).
- Data modeling skills: transactional (3NF), analytical (star/snowflake schemas), and lakehouse/hybrid approaches.
- Experience with API-based integrations, iSeries data feeds, and cross-platform data movement.
- Hands-on knowledge of Databricks Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark.
- Strong understanding of data governance, lineage, security, encryption, and PII/PCI compliance.
- Experience implementing master data management (MDM) solutions.
- Performance tuning of large datasets across SQL Server, MySQL, iSeries, and cloud environments.
- Familiarity with DevOps/DataOps practices (Git, CI/CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep).
- Experience building enterprise data roadmaps and modernization strategies (3–5 years).
- Ability to translate technical architecture into business language for executives.
- Proven experience in vendor/tool evaluation and data platform selection.
- Understanding of compliance in insurance/regulated industries.
- Skilled in mentorship and cross-team influence even without formal direct reports.
- Experience modernizing iSeries/DB2 environments into cloud or EDW solutions.
- Knowledge of enterprise data catalogs (Collibra, Alation, Purview).
- Exposure to AI/ML enablement, ensuring data structures support advanced analytics.
Preferred Background
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Management, or related field.
- 7 years of experience in data engineering/architecture roles.
- Experience modernizing hybrid (on-prem cloud) data environments.
- Insurance industry or other regulated data experience is a strong plus.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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