Data Architect

Livingston International; New York (NY, TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Livingston is seeking a passionate Data Architect to drive new data concepts using our data lake platform. The role emphasizes AWS cloud infrastructure, data analytics collaboration, and delivering data-driven solutions while working remotely.

Ideal candidate has deep AWS experience, strong data modeling skills, and a proven ability to explore innovative ideas in a fast-paced environment. This is a remote position offering opportunities across North America.

Qualifications

• 5 years of related experience.
• Must have solid understanding of the development life cycle of data products.
• Knowledge of AWS resources and cloud infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the full lifecycle from analysis to deployment and support.
• Partner with Data Products and BI teams to deliver value.
• Identify opportunities to apply best practices across tools.
• Develop centralized data repository and data pipelines.
• Document requirements, process maps, and release notes.
• Support cross-team data architecture initiatives.
• Coordinate offshore resources when needed.

Skills

Data architecture

AWS expertise

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Cloud infrastructure

Collaboration

Tools

AWS (EC2, S3, Redshift)

Terraform

Kinesis

Glue

Athena

Job description

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Join Livingston andgrow your career inthe constantly changing world of international trade. Livingston is a market leader offering customs brokerage, international trade consulting, compliance and freight forwarding services around the world. Livingston has over 3,000 employees at more than 90 key border crossings, sea ports, airports and other strategic locations in North America, Europe and Asia.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment offers you the opportunity to work with leaders in the industry, receive recognition for achievements and develop your expertise in the complex and evolving world of trade. Learn how you can make an impact at Livingston.

Job Type:Full Time

Location: HomeOffice Pennsylvania, HomeOffice Illinois, HomeOffice Michigan, HomeOffice New York, HomeOffice Texas

JOB SUMMARY

Livingston is looking for a passionate and talented Data Architect to drive new and innovative concepts into our business. This role utilizes the data lake platform and its data assets that are built & maintained by the Data Analytics team. The ideal candidate has strong experience with Amazon Web Services and understanding infrastructure in a cloud setup, as well as an independent thinker able to explore new ideas and solutions. This is a remote position.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in the entire lifecycle from analysis, design, and development through testing, deployment, and support of solutions.
• Closely partner with Data Products and Business Intelligence & Analytics teams to deliver value for both internal and external clients.
• Understand business needs and identify opportunities to employ best practices around tools supported by the Data Analytics team. Because data platforms at Livingston have a 24/7 requirement this role may coordinate and assign tasks to offshore resources.
• Develop the business's centralized data repository including tasks, but not limited to:
• Generating code/queries/scripts that leverage many enterprise and public data sources into a central model maintained in data lake
• Identify new data sources and facilitate data pipeline creation and complete data extraction from source systems
• Oversee documentation of processes in order to optimize and systemically approach improvement and revisions to execute best practices
• Participate business transformation initiatives from concept, through testing, to final implementation in order to move other employees/teams to a data driven environment
• Assist in the definition, design and delivery of new data sources and pipelines within the Livingston Data Hub and additional related applications.
• Document, monitor, and revise product requirements, process maps, use cases, user acceptance test plans, project plans, and release notes in support of application development.
• Serve as Data Analytics subject matter expert in assisting the broader IT group in the resolution of roadblocks hindering product delivery and post-deployment support.
• Collect and analyze data to contribute to data architecture direction to create/execute on a backlog of user stories that often require collaboration with business partners to define requirements on that backlog.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Must have solid understanding of the development life cycle of data products.
• Can develop hypotheses, identify data, and analyze results needed to prove or disprove hypotheses affecting business performance
• Up to date background on data science, architecture, and engineering tooling, techniques and industry trends.
• AWS resources which includes, EC2, VPC, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, S3, Storage gateway, Autoscaling, Athena, Glue, Redshift. Knowledge of Terraform and Kinesis a plus
• Ability to balance various priorities, manage resources & timelines, and plan tasks accordingly for developers, architects, and analysts
• Must be able to think in abstract terms in order to understand how systems work together even when documentation is lacking; a strong mathematical/logical ability and interest is necessary.
• Intellectual curiosity; should enjoy gathering and digging deeply into data to identify issues and solve problems
• Environment is that of a small team within a large organization, meaning that the confidence and ability to work independently when necessary is a must while collaboration both a leader and equal team member is required.

WORK EXPERIENCE – MINIMUM REQUIRED

5 years of related experience

CERTIFICATIONS DESCRIPTION

COMPETENCIES

Leading and Developing

Accountability

Inclusion and Collaboration

Customer First Focus

Agility

Business Acumen and Straight Talk

Livingston is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

For Canada:Livingston is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity, respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants and employees with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodations for interviews or other meetings, please advise when submitting your application.