Remote Architectural Review Jobs in Florida (NOW HIRING)

The Opportunity:

Data Architects are responsible for designing data and information systems to support the organization's growing needs. Defines and communicates a shared technical and architectural vision to help ensure solutions meet the strategic needs of the company.

Day in the Life:

• Serves as technical lead to strategic and enterprise level data driven projects, collaborates with other architecture areas and the wider organization.
• Follows and advises on industry standards and advances on data driven technologies and tools.
• Designs, implements, and updates best practices for the data development team.
• Represents project level data concerns to the enterprise board.
• Collaborates to mature data development standards and practices
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to architectural review board and technology review committee.
• Creates architectural artifacts along the project lifecycle to document technical requirements and vision
• Works with members of the product team to assess needs and determine the underlying issue that needs to be solved
• Must be able to collaborate with product to define requirements and translate into epics and features.
• Must be able to communicate technical content to a non-technical person
• Must lead projects across scrum teams offering architectural direction to those teams.  Exposes project and solution related architectural issues to the wider architecture team.
• Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will offer secure solutions and will be effectively integrated with current applications
• Capable of defining the correct strategy maturity to deliver right sized solutions that are value oriented around business needs
• Creates enterprise level end-to-end data flow diagrams.
• Creates data consolidation and migration plans.
• Creates conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Designs ETL/ELT patterns for analytics and reporting systems.
• Reviews complex Azure Data Factory pipelines for various reporting and data development projects.
• Designs solutions for data lake, data lakehouse, data warehouses, and similar cloud data architectures.
• Creates and maintains documentation related to data development best practices, enterprise level data flow diagrams, and project code promotion.
• Provides recommendations to technology tools, products and services to help keep our environment on the cutting edge of technology.
• Ensure compliance with established SDLC (System Development Lifecycle) frameworks, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing & deployment.
• Ensure compliance with established Agile model (Scrum or Kanban, as applicable).
• Ensure compliance with all the audit requirements of the company.
• Perform duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in CIS, Data Science, Data Analytics or related field preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Seven (7) years of working in a data function or equivalent position where primary responsibility is working with data, database design, and data development is the primary responsibility.
• Best practices for encryption, tokenization, data development, and access control within a PCI (Payment Card Industry) environment.
• Ability to analyze enterprise level data sources and determine relationships between disparate sources. 
• Determine methodologies for integration with third-party data sets. 
• Expertise in data warehousing and data modeling methodologies, tools and best practices
• Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats and give presentations utilizing various audiovisual support aids
• Expertise in data warehousing and data modeling methodologies, tools and best practices. 
• Financial industry knowledge. 
• Agile methodologies. 
• Expert knowledge of data catalogs, master data management (MDM and ETL/ELT design.  
• Snowflake or SQL Server development experience is a plus.
• Databricks experience is a plus
• Ability to plan, track and control projects in a fast-paced environment, while managing multiple priorities/projects and meeting deadlines
• Thorough understanding of card payment industry, various processing systems, and/or related in-house applications is a plus
• Ability to travel as needed

For California, Colorado and New York Applicants:  In accordance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the expected salary range for this position is between:

$110,100.00 - $143,100.00

Actual Pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

This position qualifies for the following benefits; Co-op Solutions offers a competitive Total Rewards package: 401(k) with generous company match, Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance options, Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term disability benefits, Pregnancy and Parental Leave, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays, Community Volunteer Time Off, and an Employee Assistance Program.