Data Architect

Pantex Plant - Amarillo, TX

Full-time - Senior

Amarillo, TX

About the position

A career at Pantex can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on our nation. We recognize that excellent employees are absolutely critical for mission success. We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to help enhance and optimize our mission-critical systems through data analysis, design, development, and implementation of technical data solutions. We are looking for a proven leader with demonstrated success in consuming complex data and developing innovative solutions. Primary duties include design and development of data infrastructure to extract and organize data across internal and external enterprise systems utilizing tools such as Denodo or Talend. Time will be split with software design and development using various products and technologies in a full-stack role. Other duties may include data and code optimization, business process analysis, architecture and design. You will use critical thinking to help maintain production operations, conduct system troubleshooting and perform problem analysis. You will work closely with project stakeholders to scope, estimate, and provide overall technical leadership to develop and implement high-quality technology solutions. Additional duties may include collaboration with external stakeholders across the Nuclear Security Enterprise, developing technical documentation and instructions.

Responsibilities

• Developing data infrastructure to support application development.
• Identifying relevant data.
• Designing data structures.
• Sourcing data (including all aspects of ETL: extract, transform, load).
• Creating data summarizations such as reports, dashboards, and metrics.
• Performing advanced data analysis to identify trends and forecast future events, including techniques such as machine learning.
• Advancing our team's data utilization capability to enhance business value delivered.
• Working closely with functional and business team members, project management, enterprise architects, system engineers, and application developers to design and develop mission-critical applications based on approved architecture and business requirements.
• Designing and implementing innovative solutions to resolve complex IT and business problems.
• Leading technical projects through effective communication with peers, customers, and management.
• Ensuring solutions are well-engineered, optimized, operable, and maintainable.
• Ensuring adherence to defined project management policies, changes management guidelines, cyber security requirements, and software quality assurance processes.
• Interfacing with IT Project Management to deliver solutions on schedule, with high quality, and within budget.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with no experience.
• Typical relevant experience ranging from 3 to 7 years.
• Ten (10) or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirement for this posting.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Analytics, or similar degree with at least 5 years of relevant progressive experience.
• Demonstrated experience using tools such as Excel, Tableau, and programming languages (such as SQL, Python, and R) to perform analytics.
• Knowledge of databases, data warehouses, business intelligence systems, and data analysis tools.
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence systems.
• Knowledge required to perform data analytics that includes statistics, decision sciences, machine learning, reporting technologies, and/or predictive analysis.
• Experience delivering effective communications, both written and oral.

Benefits

• Medical plan
• Prescription drug plan
• Vision plan
• Dental plan
• Employer matched 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Education reimbursement
• Onsite workout facilities
• Onsite cafeterias
• Flexible work arrangements
• Career advancement and professional development programs
• Wellness initiatives