Data Architect

AARP - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Washington, DC

10,001+ employees

Social Assistance

About the position

The Data Architect at AARP plays a crucial role in translating business requirements into technical specifications, collaborating with cross-functional teams to launch projects, and providing ongoing technical support. This position focuses on establishing a technical roadmap, ensuring sound architecture design, and driving continuous improvements in technology processes to support the organization's mission of empowering individuals aged 50 and older.

Responsibilities

• Establishes a technical roadmap for the platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle that considers value-based outcomes, costs to maintain, supportability, and performance.
• Ensures sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform and/or capability lifecycle.
• Provides rapid delivery and development of technical solutions that align with business and/or platform desired outcomes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services.
• Innovates and drives continuous improvements of implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer/employee experiences or other enterprise objectives/outcomes.
• Participates in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based business solutions.
• Develops and maintains deep technical knowledge and expertise related to domain area systems, solutions, services, and applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of IT experience with applied knowledge of data management principles, ETL processes, relational databases, CI/CD technologies, and AWS cloud architecture.
• Skilled in SQL, Informatica, SQL Server, AWS Cloud Formation Templates, AWS Lambda, JavaScript/node.js, GIT and Bitbucket pipelines.
• Experience in enterprise practices and standards, cloud technologies, and platform integration.
• Technical or solution architecture experience with projects using Agile and other iterative approaches.

Nice-to-haves

• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships.
• Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 100% company-funded pension plan
• Health, dental, and vision plans
• Life insurance
• Paid time off including company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave
• Performance-based and peer-based recognition
• Tuition reimbursement