Data Product Architect

Duties And Responsibilities

Lead the analysis, design, and implementation of a comprehensive business data product, with results that can be seamlessly expanded to address other client business domains
Embed with feature teams during early design phases to consult on data, systems architecture, and API design decisions, ensuring consistent system and data models
Plan, participate, design, review, and structure data design review sessions. Take accountability for ensuring all key design and compliance decisions are reviewed and approved before implementation following all data architecture guidelines set
Ensuring adherence to proper data design and security for new cloud data platform and data products and new enhancement features
Responsible for data model and schema documentation into governance systems
Responsible for canonical models for APIs, Event Streams, and Data as a Service
Participate in defining standards for data quality and creating data test and validation plans
Empower Data Product Squads to follow better design paths with automated quality engineering and automation
Represent the data products in the creation of enterprise data models and corporate data standards
Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and understand trends and opportunities to ensure we are using the best possible data-centric techniques and tools
Ability to manage, coach, develop and motivate a team of Data, API, and Quality Engineers
Ability to work in a cross functional team and collaborate with multiple Data Product Squads
Collaborate with Data Science teams to power the machine learning platform to support modeling and serving
Collaborate with Solution Architects from other products, Enterprise Architects to design better data products that fit to the needs of the organization

Key required skills:
Azure experience
Kafka Streams
Data Modeling
Mongo
SQL experience
Past experience with data solutions and data governance

Qualifications

Post graduate degree advanced training and or certifications in relevant field/s of study preferred
5 or more years’ experience in Agile teams and Product/Platform based operating model.
5 or more years’ experience in leading teams or advancing technical capability in teams.
Experience in retail or grocery preferred.
Experience with Machine learning frameworks
Cloud Solution Architect or equivalent certification
Hands-on experience with Data Visualization tools like PowerBI, Tableau etc
Knowledge of DevOps processes (including CI/CD) and Infrastructure as code fundamentals.
Knowledge of master data management (MDM) and data quality tools and processes.
Knowledge of Data Catalog and Lineage tools