Data Architect

Unisys Corporation; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Access to global recruiting

Possibility of reasonable accommodation

Job summary

Unisys Corporation is seeking a Data Architect in Long Beach, California, with responsibility for designing innovative data solutions. The role involves defining data requirements, engaging with stakeholders, and architecting cloud-based data platforms.

The successful candidate will have substantial experience in data architecture, strong SQL and cloud skills, and will be integral in building a data warehouse that aligns with business objectives.

This position requires advanced knowledge in databases and data governance, ensuring the implementation of effective data flows across the organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience with data sources including SQL and NoSQL.
• At least 5 years of Data Architect experience.
• Experience with hands-on implementation on cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Work with business leads to define data warehousing requirements.
• Participate in architectural reviews and ensure solution integrity.
• Build relationships with client stakeholders for data solutions.

Skills

SQL expertise

Data Architect experience

Experience with cloud platforms

Data warehousing skills

Knowledge of BI software

Strong SQL and Python skills

Education

University degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

Tableau

Data Cataloguing tools

ETL tools

Job description

What success looks like in this role:

• Work with business leads and systems implementation partners to define database/data warehousing requirements and data interfaces
• Conduct data model reviews with project team members/business subject matter experts
• Working with our other architects and engineering leads to build data security, management and engineering excellence into all our solutions.
• Consulting with internal teams and client stakeholders on proposed solutions and how they'll be developed/deployed and used.
• Leveraging automation in every part of a solution to accelerate and optimize all our solutions.
• Work with internal resource and system implementation partners to design Datawarehouse and DataMart structures
• Identify data requirements and related KPIs, metrics, etc.; perform and document data source gap analysis
• Participate and drive proof-of-concept or prototyping of data systems and data solutions
• You will participate in architectural reviews, ensuring the best patterns are in place, while early identify upstream and downstream side effects
• This will be heavily working with stakeholders and data modelling work with less of a focus on the enterprise or infrastructure architecture
• You will create documents that ensure consistency in development across the organization
• They will be working with the key stakeholders to understand the data flows within the organization and the stakeholders needs
• Manage data management workstream
• Assessing the logical and physical data models required to deliver this
• Enabling the build of a greenfield data warehouse which sits on top of their existing data lake and allows the teams to deliver effective analytics
• You will facilitate conceptual discussions to meet business objectives
• You will define usage patterns and anti-patterns for data systems, processing, modelling, and storage technologies
• You will bring a holistic brand and enterprise view into new data system design.
• Works within and across practices and organizations to design leading-edge technology or application solutions that result in profitable revenue growth for Unisys.
• Conceptualizes, architects, designs, implements and supports integrated solutions for client engagements.
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of industry, technology and strategy trends and uses this knowledge to generate profitable revenue growth for Unisys.
• Builds relationships with product development organizations and is recognized by these organizations as a key product champion who adds value through exposure to client situations.
• Advises, analyses, researches, designs, installs and implements complex integrated solutions for an entire enterprise. Interfaces extensively with the client's senior management team (e.g., the IT Directors) on business, systems architectural, and technical issues. Provides mentoring and team leadership to other architects.
• Develops the integrated technology requirements project plan.
• Integrates complex solutions into new or existing client environments.
• Uses advanced diagnostic analytical and design capabilities.
• Ensures that the best solution is provided to the customer (e.g., completes solution integrity engineering and development attributes.)

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• University degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years of experience in a broad range of data sources including SQL and NOSQL
• Data Architect experience (5+ years)
• Experience in one or more related cloud platform technology areas that interests you, for example: SQL Server, Data Lake Storage, Data Movement/Transformation e.g. Azure Data Factory/AWS Glue, Data Analytics e.g. Databricks/Synapse/BigQuery, Data Cataloguing, Data Quality, Data Lineage, Data Governance, Data Mesh/Lakehouse, Master Data Management etc.
• Some knowledge of common industry tooling covering areas such as ingestion, streaming, storage, visualisation etc.
• Experience with hands‑on implementation on cloud platforms including at least one of: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud
• Experience in architecting and designing the migration of data from one data source to another in which the data sources are not of the same type such as Mainframe to Modern Databases such as Oracle
• Design experience on Data Vault, Data Lake and Mart technologies in Cloud
• Experience using advanced SQL functions and query performance tuning
• Experience of design within a data science environment (AWS S3/ Jupyter notebooks)
• Familiar with a variety of modelling approaches, tools and model repositories
• Experience of Data Catalogue tools (e.g. Collibra, Informatica)
• Strong knowledge of master data management
• Knowledge of Business Objects, Tableau etc
• Knowledge and/or experience with service‑oriented architecture entities and frameworks
• Knowledge of database performance/tuning/measurement, as well as user access and data manipulation
• Data warehousing, including business line and enterprise data warehouses, operational data stores, and business intelligence data structures
• Experience in Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Model design
• Strong knowledge of entity relationships
• Hands on skills in SQL, Python, AWS & Azure infrastructures, Alteryx & Tableau
• Strong knowledge of SQL, C#, SOA and web services
• Documented experience (at least 2 years) with ETL in the context of data warehouses
• Knowledge of Big Data environments (Hadoop & PhP)
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Has strong expertise and experience in data analytics, data visualization, machine learning and predictive modelling
• Defines policies, procedures and models for data collection, storage, structure, access, manipulation, access and visualization
• Defines technologies and tools used at various stages of data driven solution creation, maintenance and operation
• Understands and connects business and technology aspects of data and its usages
• Expertise and experience to translate data related business requirements into technology solutions
• Deep expertise of various form of databases - RDBMSs, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark etc. and database query languages - SQL, NoSQL
• Strong expertise in business intelligence (BI) software - Tableau, Power BI, Chartio, and related programming languages - Python.

This role may require access to export‑controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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