Senior Data Architect

About the position

The Senior Data Architect works with data engineers, business stakeholders and product owners to help design the physical and conceptual data model which empower a business. They will be responsible for designing the structure of the data model, working across teams to translate requirements into an interconnected, well-governed, efficient and accessible data model. Aside from informing modeling decisions, the Senior Data Architect will also help the team to define best practices, uphold engineering excellence, and to promote quality data analysis with partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Owns design solutions for comprehensive data models within domains.
• Owns E2E solution design strategy across teams.
• Authors the following artifacts: Concept Architecture, Top 25 System Impacts and E2E Solution Architecture document.
• Support the definition and adoption of common software development processes.
• Prepares and maintains design deliverables that include architecture diagrams, data models, and API / micro-service architecture.
• Enforces design process standards on assigned initiatives.
• Writes advanced documentation, architecture, capabilities, limitations, and advantages for technologies.
• Produces advanced documentation and literature for multiple disciplines.
• Clearly describes architecture, design strategies, standards, technical specifications, business benefits, opportunities and threats.
• Routinely creates and presents executive and external materials, including white papers.
• Identify and propose solutions to address shortcomings in existing data products.
• Actively contributes to industry publications and professional forums.
• Contributes to decisions on technical solutions, including tech stack architecture but also software design solutions.
• Interacts with Senior management to shape and align solutions against desired minimum viable product scope.
• Works closely with product managers and partner teams alike to design quality data products.
• Maintains good relationships with partner teams, understands their needs and use-cases.
• Participates in formal internal training programs.
• Applies a broad understanding of the products, systems and technologies across the business portfolio and deep technical ability on integration of these components to deliver a cohesive E2E solution architecture for a given initiative.
• Translates business requirements into technical requirements that the system analysts and other technical team members drive into the project design and delivery.
• Lead the overall technical design and end-to-end solution design for assigned initiatives.
• Ensures quality, consistency and alignment of designs to TMUS standards and digital strategy.
• Reviews pull requests, enforces design standards on the team.
• Leads large cross domain initiatives that are supported by E2E Design.
• Drives Technical Strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions.
• Leads the technical design process for applicable cross domain initiatives.
• Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests.
• Balances constraints in IT, business, delivery to deliver optimal architecture for an initiative.
• Leads design orchestration on large-sized initiatives or work streams.
• Provides input into the definition of Digital Architecture standards as they are created.
• Owns solution design for multiple cross domain initiatives and works across domains to ensure cohesive solution.
• Assesses the modeling solution from a strategic viewpoint.
• Reviews and identifies the gaps in the architecture and solution designs.
• Drives to practical solutions considering all teams, initiatives and long-term outlook.
• Makes and implements complex decisions aimed at improving the quality, effectiveness or ability to achieve revenue, profitability and strategic goals for the organization.
• Understands how the business functions in order to effectively model that function in data.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred but not required)
• 4-7 years Related work experience.
• 4-7 years Progressive experience in software engineering/enterprise architecture/technology leadership across multiple products, systems and/or platforms coupled with strong business acumen and executive presence.
• 4-7 years Experience working in data engineering, analytics, data science, or analytics engineering.
• Software Engineering (Required)
• Data Engineering (Required)
• SQL
• Enterprise Architecture (Required)
• Solution Architecture (Required)
• Technical Leadership (Required)
• Communication (Required)

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k)
• Employee stock grants
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental and family leave
• Family building benefits
• Back-up care
• Enhanced family support
• Childcare subsidy
• Tuition assistance
• College coaching
• Short- and long-term disability
• Voluntary AD&D coverage
• Voluntary accident coverage
• Voluntary life insurance
• Voluntary disability insurance
• Voluntary long-term care insurance
• Mobile service & home internet discounts
• Pet insurance
• Access to commuter and transit programs