Data Architect
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Data Architect designing cloud and data architecture solutions for Empower. Collaborating with various teams to support modernization initiatives and evaluate emerging technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Enterprise Architects, Senior Architects, and cross functional teams, including business stakeholders, to shape solution architectures aligned to a unified IT data strategy.
- Contribute to Empower’s technology roadmap by documenting target state architectures, reference architectures, and key dependencies for supported initiatives.
- Design and support modernization and migration of complex systems to scalable, secure, and cost optimized cloud architectures, working with delivery teams through implementation.
- Evaluate and prototype new technologies and applications, challenge existing approaches constructively, and provide input into business cases and recommendations.
- Apply and help operationalize architectural standards, best practices, and governance expectations, supporting consistent adoption through guidance and enablement.
- Collaborate closely with business and engineering teams to design end to end solutions that meet strategic, technical, and operational objectives.
- Provide architectural guidance in process design, system orchestration, and enterprise integration to enable cohesive and efficient technology ecosystems.
- Champion security, resilience, and scalability as core design principles across data platforms and data solutions.
- Contribute to architecture discipline maturity by producing reusable patterns, decision documentation, and lessons learned that improve consistency and delivery speed.
- Support full stack development teams through solution design and implementation, improving long term scalability, performance, and cost outcomes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or related field, such as information systems, mathematics, or software engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience delivering data-intensive solutions, for example in data engineering, analytics engineering, data platforms, BI, or related roles.
- At least 1 year of demonstrated solution design ownership for moderately complex initiatives, gained as an architect or as a senior engineer or technical lead responsible for end-to-end design, architectural trade-offs, and guiding implementation.
- Proven experience in multiple data focused roles, including Data Engineer, ETL/ELT, Data Architect, Database Administrator, BI or Analytics Engineer, Data Science, data governance, or a similar field.
- Competency in architecture frameworks, performance optimization, and addressing cross cutting concerns including availability, caching, monitoring, scalability, and security.
- Strong problem solving and strategic thinking, with the ability to influence cross functional teams and communicate architecture decisions clearly in distributed environments.
- Strong expertise in designing data and cloud architecture, AWS preferred, supporting scalability, performance, and security with systems such as Snowflake or Redshift.
- Proven ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights and reporting solutions that provide comprehensive and up to date information to business users.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
- Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
- Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
- Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
- Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
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