Senior Data Architect

Location: Stamford CT, or Chicago, IL, or New York City Area. Work onsite 3-5 days a week.

Our client, a leader in global market access, is looking for a Sr. Data Architect – Team Lead. Their ideal candidate will work with their enterprise architect to develop a program, run as process owner, and build/configure acquire tooling to support the program.

Requirements and Required Experience:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related degree.
7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with public clouds (AWS required)
5+ years of experience in Data Lake platform implementation
5+ years of experience with Terraform
3+ years of IT management experience
Experience building and leading engineering teams
Experience in designing, building, and running enterprise distributed systems, real-time ETL, and data pipelines
Experience with AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
Extensive experience working with RDBMS, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka
Experience with programming languages such as Java and Python
Design solutions with performance, maintainability, scalability, and reliability in mind
Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC)
Knowledge of and experience with serverless big data solutions in AWS
Exceptional personal communication and teamwork interaction skills
Able to work independently and collaboratively
Proven leadership skills and demonstrated ability to mentor, influence, and partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable, robust solutions.
Willingness to learn and improve

Daily Responsibilities:

Lead the development of patterns, standards, and best practices in the data engineering and solutions space
Review and identify data solutions in collaboration with the technology teams across the enterprise
Work with engineering teams to implement architectures
Influence product and delivery requirements, roadmaps, and vision
Lead data architecture strategy, design, and best practices data platforms and related solutions
Manage data engineering team under the Enterprise Architecture organization
Reports to the Chief of Architect

Delivers:

Deliver enterprise solutions/architectures with emphasis on data privacy, integrity, scalability, and availability
Produce organized and comprehensive system architectures and the related documentation
Design and build functioning proof of concepts for proposed architectures

To be successful in this position, you will have:

Exceptional personal communication and teamwork interaction skills
Able to work independently and collaboratively
Proven leadership skills and demonstrated ability to mentor, influence, and partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable, robust solutions.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Have a startup personality and enjoy working as part of a team.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapid-growth environment.

Company Benefits & Perks

Salary $200,000 – $240,000
Retirement plan 401(k) with a competitive company match
Excellent health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits
Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches, and counseling services through Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Paid time off and a generous parental leave policy
Daily company lunch allowance provided, and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack
Corporate events, including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities, and company sports teams
Education reimbursement and learning opportunities
Modern offices with multi-monitor setups