Cloud Data Architect - 5440774

Accenture - Florham Park, NJ

Full-time

Florham Park, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists. As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges. You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel. Kemper is seeking a Data Architect to join our team. You will work as part of a distributed team and with Infrastructure, Enterprise Data Services and Application Development teams to coordinate the creation, enrichment, and movement of data throughout the enterprise. Your central responsibility as an architect will be improving the consistency, timeliness, quality, security, and delivery of data as part of Kemper's Data Governance framework. In addition, the Architect must streamline data flows and optimize cost management in a hybrid cloud environment. Your duties may include assessing architectural models and supervising data migrations across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and on-premises systems, as well as data platform selection and onboarding of data management solutions that meet the technical and operational needs of the company. To succeed in this role, you should know how to examine new and legacy requirements and define cost-effective patterns to be implemented by other teams. You must then be able to represent required patterns during implementation projects. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in cloud (Snowflake, AWS and Azure) architectural analysis and management.

Responsibilities

• Define architectural standards and guidelines for data products and processes.
• Assess and document when and how to use existing and newly architected producers and consumers, the technologies to be used for various purposes, and models of selected entities and processes.
• Work with Information & Insights, Data Governance, Business Data Stewards, and Implementation teams to define standard and ad-hoc data products and data product sets.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Implementation teams to define the transformation of data products throughout hybrid cloud environments assuring that both functional and non-functional requirements are addressed.
• Model and map data sources, including descriptions of the business meaning of the data, its uses, its quality, the applications that maintain it and the technologies in which it is stored.
• Define integrative views of data to draw together data from across the enterprise, considering data currency, availability, response times and data volumes.
• Work with modeling and storage teams to define Conceptual, Logical and Physical data views limiting technical debt as data flows through transformations.

Requirements

• Proven experience in cloud architectural analysis and management, specifically with Snowflake, AWS, and Azure.
• Ability to define cost-effective patterns for data management and transformation.
• Experience in data governance and data quality management.
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud environments and data migration processes.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS architectures.
• Familiarity with data modeling and storage solutions.
• Knowledge of data security best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive rewards and access to benefits programs.
• World-class learning resources.