Data Products Designer — Enterprise Data Architect

IBM; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a Data Products Designer to shape business-aligned data products within a large data re-engineering program. You will define data models, contracts, and metadata used by analytics, ML, and GenAI use cases.

You will design data models for Databricks and AWS, re-engineer legacy structures into reusable data products, and align SAP-native data products with enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Advanced expertise in data modelling, design, or architecture for complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to design scalable data models and architectures aligning with business requirements.
• Strong SQL skills with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog), AWS data services, and ER/Erwin/ER Studio tooling.
• Experience designing scalable data solutions for real-time and unstructured data using Kafka, EventBridge, SQS or similar.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 days per week and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define data products: scope, ownership, consumers, SLAs, and data contracts.
• Design logical/physical data models for Databricks and AWS lakehouse environments.
• Re-engineer legacy data structures into reusable data products.
• Create source-to-target mappings for pipelines (Fivetran, SAP and non-SAP sources).
• Align SAP-native data products with enterprise data models.
• Maintain models and artifacts in enterprise data modeling tools.
• Define data quality rules, lineage expectations, and governance collaboration.
• Produce design documentation and review with Data Engineers, Architects, and Product Owners.
• Design and develop data solutions on Big Data and lakehouse tech, including API access and coding when needed.
• Provide technical leadership on design standards and approaches.
• Optimize performance, scalability and reliability of data products and platform.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to meet business requirements.

Skills

Data modelling

Data architecture

SQL

Databricks

Lakehouse

Data mesh

Tools

Erwin

ER Studio

Fivetran

Collibra

AWS

Kafka

EventBridge

SQS

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is seeking a Data Products Designer to shape business-aligned data products within a large data re-engineering program. You will define data models, contracts, and metadata used by analytics, ML, and GenAI use cases.

You will design data models for Databricks and AWS, re-engineer legacy structures into reusable data products, and align SAP-native data products with enterprise standards.