Job Summary:
NTT DATA is a trusted global innovator of business and technology services, seeking a Data Architect to join their team in Atlanta, Georgia. The role involves designing, governing, and evolving the Symphony platform architecture, requiring strategic architectural thinking and practical implementation capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Own the technical architecture of the Symphony data platform.
• Design and govern the metadata-driven architecture that underpins the solution.
• Lead architectural decisions for Phase 2, including refactoring, optimization, and performance tuning.
• Define and enforce standards for data modeling, pipeline design, and code structure.
• Guide the transition from Azure Synapse to Microsoft Fabric.
• Ensure pipelines are used strictly for scheduling — no ETL logic embedded in pipelines.
• Drive automation, reusable patterns, and defined development processes across the team.
• Actively participate in discovery sessions to derive requirements directly from data.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to data engineers.
• Collaborate with TCCC's core technical team on architectural alignment.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in data architecture and engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of Apache Spark and its core concepts.
• Hands-on proficiency in Scala and/or Java (code-first approach mandatory).
• Advanced SQL skills and deep data warehousing expertise.
• Strong experience with Azure Synapse.
• Experience designing and implementing metadata-driven data architectures.
• Proficiency with GitHub for source control and code management.
• Experience integrating multiple marketing or enterprise data sources.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Preferred:
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric (preferred).
Company:
NTT DATA, Inc. is a trusted global innovator of business and technology services. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Tokyo, JP, , with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.