Quest Analytics, LLC is hiring a
Senior Data Architect in United States

Summary

The job is for a Senior Data Architect at Quest Analytics. The role involves designing and building technology and data platforms, collaborating with teams, defining and documenting data patterns, optimizing delivery, fostering a culture of data design and architecture, partnering with the security team, guiding engineering and product teams, meeting business needs, ensuring high functioning distributed systems, challenging the status quo, exemplifying engineering standards, owning organizational data architecture practices, and more. The requirements include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related, 7+ years of data engineering/architecture experience, expertise in various technologies, a commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, strong communication skills, being a team player, proven curiosity and interest in new technologies, and willingness to adapt to change.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data or related. Or relevant experience in lieu of the dgree
• 7+ years of data engineering/architecture experience
• Experience in Agile methodologies, Data Governance, and Micro-service Architecture Design and Development
• Expertise in building and owning data models spanning multiple services and APIs, unit and integration testing, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Expertise with Azure cloud platform and available services (or equivalent AWS, GCP concepts)
• Strong expertise in database technologies (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), ETL (SSIS, Azure Data Factory, etc.), queuing, messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and modern source control (Git / Github)
• Experience with data warehouse designs sourced by multiple contributing systems
• A commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively explain technical concepts to other engineers, analysts, product managers, and team members
• A strong history of being a team player and driving for team success
• Proven curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies
• Willingness to adapt to change and work within a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other Architects, engineering leaders and product managers to lead teams in requirements definition, domain modeling, design, architecture evaluation, and implementation of our systems and services
• Define and document data patterns, standards, and practices
• Apply systems thinking to our data architecture and technology platforms to drive optimizations for speed of delivery, quality, and maintainability
• Work across the organization to foster a culture of data design and architecture that encourages and supports iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Partner with our security team to refine our data security strategy while encouraging a security-first mentality across the organization
• Guide the engineering and product teams in anticipation of future data needs and craft design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes within our data systems
• Meet business needs by collaborating with business partners to assist with defining and delivering our technology and product roadmap
• Ensure high functioning distributed systems by defining and refining our domain models and their underlying data models in collaboration with engineering and product teams
• Challenge our business and technical status quo to help build new product capabilities by creatively changing technical strategy or overcoming constraints
• Exemplify our engineering standards/methodologies and provide exceptional technical direction to teams
• Own organizational data architecture practices, governance, and processes as well as their continuous improvement

Benefits

• Workplace flexibility – you choose between remote, hybrid or in-office
• Company paid employee medical, dental and vision
• Competitive salary and success sharing bonus
• Flexible vacation with no cap, plus sick time and holidays
• An entrepreneurial culture that won’t limit you to a job description
• Being listened to, valued, appreciated -- and having your contributions rewarded
• Enjoying your work each day with a great group of people