Director of Architecture

Remote: Houston, Texas, US

Salary: $170000.00 Per Annum

Job Code: 354199

End Date: 2024-10-24

Days Left: 25 days, 5 hours left

 
About the role: 
 
We are looking for a strong Data Architect to join our engineering team, focusing on leveraging Azure SQL, CosmosDB and DataBricks to meet our growing data demands. As a Data Leader in the Apex organization, you will own, develop, and oversee the data capabilities powering customer-facing applications used by hundreds of thousands of residents. You will play a critical role in supporting the data needs of the engineering team as you develop and optimize the backend for customer-facing real estate applications.
 
 
What You Will Do:
 
  • Manage and mentor the data engineering team, applying your expertise to guide the team through difficult engineering challenges.
  • Hands-on development – Azure SQ, CosmosDB, DataBricks: develop and unit test database code, including but not limited to T-SQL, stored procedures, functions and views.
  • Own the data ingestion & output for our Customer Insights CDP platform
  • Create and maintain database structures.
  • Participate in the design of databases, using first, second or third normalized form as needed to support business requirements.
  • Create, deploy, and maintain ADF pipelines.
  • Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to ensure scalable and reliable database operations in a production environment.
  • Perform analysis of complex data and document findings.
  • Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling.
  • Combine raw data from different external sources and build and support complex ingestions
  • Collaborate with application developers/data analysts who will be consuming the data.
  • Play a direct role in the maintenance, technical support, documentation, and administration of databases.
  • Ensure standards are followed by participating in code reviews
  • Be a player-coach and provide hands-on leadership to the team & elevate the team’s efficiency.
  • Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
  • You are a thought leader who will bring up new ideas or methods and deliver awesome code
 
Technical Qualifications
  • 10+ years of relevant and progressive data engineering experience, supporting customer-facing products at scale
  • 3+ years of experience in a people leadership/manager role
  • Deep Technical knowledge and experience in Azure architecture, including Azure PaaS databases, Synapse, ADF pipelines and Synapse stored procedures
  • 4+ Experience with CosmosDB
  • 3+ Experience working with DataBricks
  • Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience working with Azure Data Factory.
  • Hands-on experience working with data pipelines using SQL and No-SQL databases
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience working with Azure Data Lakes Gen 2.
  • Experience with Power Platform / Power BI
  • Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, CI/CD, and highly scalable data applications
  • Experience developing batch ETL pipelines; real-time pipelines are a plus
  • Knowledge of advanced data engineering concepts such as dimensional modeling, ETL, data governance, data warehousing, structured and unstructured data
  • Understanding / Experience with Python; additional knowledge of parallel processing frameworks like MapReduce, Spark, Scala is a plus
 
 
Overall Qualifications
  • Expert knowledge of Agile software development process
  • Excellent problem-solving experience
  • Strong communication and collaboration experience
  • "Self-starter" attitude and the ability to make decisions with minimal guidance from others
  • Innovative and passionate about your work and the work of your teammates
  • Ability to comprehend and analyze operational systems and ask appropriate questions to determine how to improve, migrate or modify the solution to meet business needs
  • Proven track record of developing talent within the organization and fostering high performance teams
 
Required Licenses or Certifications:
  • Azure & Databricks certifications is a plus
  • Education:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information technology, business management information systems, or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred
 
Job Requirement
  • Azure DataBricks
  • Azure Data Factory
  • CosmosDB
  • Azure SQL
  • Customer Facing Applications
Reach Out to a Recruiter
  • Recruiter
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Derek Bonner
  • derek.bonner@collabera.com
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