Principal Solutions Architect

Summary

Join phData, a leading modern data stack company, as a Principal Data Governance Architect. You will play a critical role in driving delivery excellence and customer success, partnering with sales to expand accounts. This role requires managing multiple work streams, building executive relationships, and guiding clients through complex data challenges. You'll design scalable solutions and act as a strategic influencer in the data landscape. phData offers a remote-first, award-winning work environment with competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and professional development opportunities. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a hands-on Data Governance Leader who has designed and led the rollout of Data Governance Programs across a number of industries
• 4+ years previous Consulting leadership experience working with external customers with the ability to multitask, prioritize tasks, frequently change focus, and work across a variety of projects
• Bring some vertical/industry expertise to bear in making Data Governance-related recommendations, given the nuances of each industry e.g. Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail
• Functional Data Governance expertise and/or exposure
• Adept at making technical recommendations that are tied to business outcomes
• Demonstrated expertise in effectively leading and managing a team comprising Business Analysts, Technical Architects and Data Engineers, fostering internal growth through coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Proven track record of collaborating with client stakeholders, technology partners, and cross-functional sales and delivery team members across distributed global teams, ensuring seamless, successful project delivery outcomes
• Knowledge of global privacy requirements, e.g. GDPR, CCPA, and how to meet requirements by leveraging technology
• Strong client-facing written and verbal communication skills and experience
• Can communicate relatively technical concepts to a non-technical audience verbally clearly and concisely
• 4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple work streams
• Build executive relationships
• Guide clients through complex data challenges
• Design scalable solutions
• Create value
• Foster trust
• Build relationships
• Position yourself as a strategic influencer in the evolving data landscape
• Design a governance operating model
• Design processes for effective data and analytical asset management
• Draft data management policies, that enable organizations to adopt Data Governance pragmatically, and with strong adoption
• Make technical recommendations that are tied to business outcomes
• Effectively lead and manage a team comprising Business Analysts, Technical Architects and Data Engineers, fostering internal growth through coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Collaborate with client stakeholders, technology partners, and cross-functional sales and delivery team members across distributed global teams, ensuring seamless, successful project delivery outcomes
• Create strong cross-practice relationships to drive customer success
• Exhibit a strong sense of ownership in resolving challenges, committed to ensuring exceptional outcomes for all aspects of project execution
• Deliver presentations with compelling storylines, tailored to the target audience, from technical stakeholders through to executive teams
• Communicate relatively technical concepts to a non-technical audience verbally clearly and concisely
• Lead technical discovery sessions and workshops, and bring a focus on business value to keep all participants centered on the objectives
• Guide on technology rationalization decisions with criteria such as total cost of ownership (TCO) and business need in mind

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Background & Expertise in any of the following: Data Catalogs: Alation, Collibra, Ataccama, Purview Data quality tools: IBM InfoSphere, Informatica, Talend Master Data Management (MDM) technologies: Reltio, Profisee, TIBCO

Benefits

• Remote-First Work Environment
• Casual, award-winning small-business work environment
• Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
• Competitive comp, excellent benefits, 4 weeks PTO plan plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
• Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications