Data Architect - Day 1 Onsite

Photon - Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Atlanta, GA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Data Architect position at Photon involves collaborating with product and business teams to define and implement technical architecture roadmaps that align with strategic business goals. The role focuses on designing data architectures, creating data flow diagrams, and ensuring adherence to data quality standards while continuously updating architecture principles to meet evolving business and technology needs.

Responsibilities

• Work with product and business teams to understand their strategic, business, and technical needs.
• Define technical architecture roadmaps to realize business values.
• Continuously update architecture principles in line with business and technology needs.
• Design data architectures including data lakes, data fabrics, dimensional marts, and MDM.
• Create data flow diagrams to establish data lineage and educate team members.
• Partner with technical leads to identify solution components and data technologies that meet business requirements.
• Identify gaps in the environment, process, and skills to drive results.
• Educate and share best practices and architecture patterns with technical leaders.
• Support enterprise data infrastructure management and analysts for efficient data systems development.
• Create cloud data models and database architecture for long-term viability of cloud master data management.
• Suggest ideas for system performance improvement and cost reduction.
• Communicate data architecture to stakeholders and collaborate with technical staff.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise data movement, quality, and accountability standards.
• Conduct data-driven analyses of data usage across the business domain to optimize data provisioning patterns.
• Improve and streamline processes regarding data flow and quality.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Azure services including ADLS, ADF, Event Hubs, Functions, etc.
• Exhaustive experience in Data bricks, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, etc.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to work with key executives and stakeholders to drive business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of data solution SDLC processes and ability to improve them.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Motivated and comfortable with ambiguity, with a passion for technology.