Senior Data Delivery Architect
Gulf States Toyota
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Engagement
- Collect feedback and influence users and stakeholders to prioritize and develop data-centric work products and support requests.
- Work with internal (IT technical and functional) and external (vendor) partners to source, review, and deliver data-related solutions for projects.
- Create and track KPIs for enterprise data virtualization service capability to share with management and user community.
- Ability to drive the architecture, design along with experience in leading the team technically
- Architecture
- Refine the current Denodo deployment with sound data architecture that delivers data for Analytics, BI and Applications via services
- Ensure data security is maintained throughout the user, application, platform, and data layers.
- Design integration with front-end tools (Tableau, custom apps) and back-end applications and data (e.g. SAP).
- Process
- Establishes process for Architecture review, code review and development process for the Denodo engineers
- Continuously refines the processes by measuring process related KPIs
- Development
- Maintain and extend agile data development methodology in support of both self-service and full-service models.
- Create reusable semantic and report-specific data layers that are secure and performant.
- Develop techniques for optimizing solutions, including caching, refactoring, performance, and testing.
- Define data catalogues.
- Admin/Support
- Troubleshoot issues that may occur within the data platform or in consuming apps/tools and data sources.
- Ensure SLAs are developed and met for response and resolution times for business-critical data platform.
- Establish and implement operations (e.g. monitoring and logging) to keep platform (multiple Windows servers) stable and up-to-date (i.e. quarterly updates and periodic upgrades).
- Works under minimal supervision
- Other duties as assigned.
- Responsibly receive, transmit, and handle consumer and customer data per applicable policies and procedures.
- Review and follow data privacy practices, policies, and guidelines.
- Good understanding and experience in Data Virtualization At least 3+ yrs. of experience with Administration and development in Denodo Administration experience to include installation, configuration, security, cache management in a highly available enterprise environment.
- Sound data architecture principles based on traditional data warehousing concepts and modern concepts
- 3+ Years of data modeling experience, from business modeling to logical modeling
- 6+ years of SQL experience with mastery on multitude of techniques to pull data based on requirements and data volume
- Sound understanding of data virtualization principles. Denodo experience and certification is a huge plus
- Understanding of LDAP, SSL and other security concepts.
- Good knowledge of JDBC, XML and Web Services APIs.
- SAP and general system knowledge of CDS views, BW queries and Hana database.
- Working knowledge of combining Hana, SQLServer, Amazon S3 and APIs
- Validate and ensure non-functional requirements (e.g. system performance) are in place
- Access definitions - APIs, querying other access methods; ODATA standard protocols implementation, security.
- Good knowledge of query optimization and analysis of SQL execution plans in context of heterogeneous joins.
- Experience working with GIT or other version control systems is a plus
- Manages complexity in order to effectively find solutions and solve problems
- Drives results by consistently achieving completion and closure of tasks, even in the face of obstacles and setbacks
- Adaptive personality and ability to function in a fast-paced environment
- A problem-solving attitude that can adapt to varying timelines
- A strong attention to detail combined with the ability to prioritize tasks
- Strong interpersonal skills; promoting healthy relationships and team dynamics
- Strong capability to plan and align work with regards to sense of urgency and priority
- Strong capability to provide Business Insight
- Strong ability to influence organization stakeholders