General Summary:

As senior architect, data & analytics, you will lead and architect the design, development, and maintenance of North America’s data management solutions to support business data needs, ultimately supporting business strategic objectives.

You will develop architectural approaches and solutions and will be responsible for the overall design and development of scalable, globally distributed, robust, and secure products and tools related to data processing and advanced analytics.

You will be expected to work with the users of data and analytics services to understand the technical and business context, to design or re-design solutions. You will work in a network of data engineering experts from all over the world, following enterprise standards and industry best practices. You will be supported and expected to learn constantly new technologies, to improve your skills and constantly track the latest industry achievements. You will be expected to lead data & analytics architecture for North America and to act as an owner, to be self-driven and to ensure achieving the goals. The contribution includes hands-on activities and support to other team members and business stakeholders

This role will report to the Director of Product Engineering & Delivery in the North America Digital Services organization.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Conduct business and data analysis activities and translate business needs and change requests into a conceptual, logical, and physical architecture design of а solution, including coordinating the technical teams needed to deliver the design, including information security.

• Design, data modeling, develop and deployment of end-to-end Data and Analytics solutions including ETL, data processing, data modeling, security and creation of interfaces to other systems.

• Provide subject matter expertise and technical leadership to data modelers and ETL developers to bring improvement and optimizations in the implementation of data warehouses/ data lake, marts and universes

• Create and evangelize a holistic data architecture vision that is robust and optimized to support current business analytics needs and is flexible and scalable to evolve with future business needs

• Define, communicate, educate, and implement North America’s data and analytics destination architecture working in conjunction with global data platform team and standards

• Analyze current data management environment to identify critical gaps/deficiencies, and design and propose solutions for improvement touching all aspects of data lifecycle

• Evaluate new technologies and defines how to maximize the benefits of same such as near real-time/real-time data streaming /data pipelines, cloud big data technologies/ cloud datawarehouses, data lakes etc.

• Collaborate with data governance team and other key stakeholders to define and implement policies, and establish standards for data integration, data management, data security, compliance and privacy, and data governance

• Support ongoing maintenance of data analytics products in data lake & warehouse

• Respond to and collaborate on complex incidents in the Operations data warehouse/ data lake environment

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or 6 years’ experience with complex data analytics development

• 10+ years’ experience in data architecture, data warehousing and data modeling methodologies and techniques

• Proven experience in architecting enterprise-wide data platforms and data management solutions for large and complex environments

• Hands on experience in cloud and big data technologies such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Notebooks & Azure SQL database

• Strong knowledge of architecting and developing data pipelines and associated technologies (for example, Kafka, Databricks, Spark etc)

• Experience in Python and/or Pyspark programming languages

• Proficiency in SQL, query optimization and relational databases

• Good understanding of Github as well as Agile & SDLC methodologies

• Proven ability of translating business needs into architecture and design requirements

• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and leading practices

Functional Competencies:

• Strong verbal/written communication abilities; effective interpersonal skills; strong attention to detail.

• Ability to work collaborate with a team as an effective team member

• Excellent critical thinking skills; using logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, or approaches to problems.

• Uses creativity, past experience, and logic to see a project from concept to final implementation

• Maximizes efforts towards productivity, identifies problem areas, and assists with implementing solutions

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ experience in CPG industry

• MicroStrategy, PowerBI, OLAP etc.

• Experience in programming languages Scala, Node.js

• Experience in AWS datalake, AWS Redshift dataware and AWS glue service

• Proven capacity to engage with stakeholders with a design thinking mindset

• Certification in Azure Data Engineering or Solution Architect

Skills:

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