Data Architect, Customer Data & Marketing Technology
Location: Phoenix, AZ Duration: 12 Months
Essential Functions:
- Create and maintain data architecture designs that support business and technical requirements for high-quality, performant data solutions in support of a Marketing Technology Stack.
- Use your expertise to drive innovation. Create best-in-class data solutions with approved security, regulatory, and compliant process that have strong referenceable documentation.
- Leverage strong interpersonal skills to manage and engage with third party vendors and providers.
- Ability to lead technical requirements as input into RFP process to select appropriate tools, and then inform the data architecture and flow within those systems and platforms.
- Create and maintain documentation related to data architecture standards, protocols, and frameworks.
- Implement data modeling standards and ensure adherence within data management solutions.
- Assessment and recommendations regarding data engineering practices, monitoring and orchestration.
- Recommend low touch, automated architectural decisions to address business needs. Research and recommend tools and services to improve data management processes and support architectural standards and patterns.
- Participate in data solution prototyping initiatives.
- Develop mapping of data sources, data movement, interfaces, and architecture, with the goal of ensuring data quality.
- Create and maintain data model and metadata policies and procedures for functional design.
- Provide technical recommendations and engage with ETL, BI, Integration, Solution, System, and security Architects.
- Translate business requirements into data models and meta data, test data, and data quality standards.
- Mentor and educate more junior data architecture team members.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Self-starter with strong business acumen who understands organizational issues and challenges.
- Entrepreneurial multi-tasker who can be highly efficient with ambiguity and complexity and enjoys being able to navigate changing direction of projects and strategies.
- Skills to understand the culture and emotional blockers for people's willingness to embrace change.
- Strategic thinking and act operationally.
- Exceptional analytical, written, oral, and presentation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative working style.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree or higher in the field of engineering, computer science or equivalent advance technology field of study.
- Experience with CRM systems, email service providers, mobile app technology, and Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) required.
- At least 5 years of experience architecting customer data solutions.
- Experience with first party data collection and management required.
- Data and analytics architecture, and data lake/data warehousing.
- Data Analysis, Data Modelling (ERD), Master Data Management patterns and implementation, Data Landscape Design (Data Flow, API).
- Cloud Architecture (Azure) Databases (SQL, Mongo) and Cloud DW (Databricks).
- Data schema such as star schemas, relational and data vault structures.
- Superior coding with complex SQL.
Personality Traits:
- Professional, thoughtful, leadership style.
- Ability to hear feedback and influence.
- Maintain high levels of integrity and dependability.
- Maintain a focus on results, quality and customer satisfaction.
- Works well in a team environment and effectively manage work activities.
- Project a professional demeanor and appearance.
- Be extremely flexible and adaptable.
- Demonstrates the ability to function and stay focused in a constant pressure, fast growing and ever-changing organization.
- Ability to work with and manage vendor partner relationships.
Sprouts Technical Landscape:
- On Prem 1st party data sources: SQL Databases.
- Cloud Technology solutions: Azure Data Lake.
- Integration Platforms: DMA & Azure API Management.
- Analytics: Azure Synapse, Power BI.
- Machine Learning: Azure Databricks.
- Marketing Automation: Braze.
- Digital asset management: Aprimo.
- Ecommerce: Instacart Storefront Pro & Marketplace delivery.