Data Architect

Data Architect

DAT Solutions is looking for a Senior Data Architect to join our Data Engineering team in Beaverton, Oregon.  

Data Architect Responsibilities:

DAT is seeking a Senior Data Architect visionary with a proven track record in data analysis, design, deployment and management of organization's data architecture. This person will be responsible for defining how the DAT’s structured and unstructured data will be stored, consumed, integrated and reported by different systems across internal and external business customers . The data architect will define and align architecture principles to the overarching enterprise architecture principles. They will conduct strategic planning of the organization’s data platform with a focus on fulfilling business requirements around availability, scalability, performance, and cost of the platform. The Data Architect will work towards building an enterprise model, a central dictionary of common business vocabulary, define approach & principles for data quality management, master data management, data integration, data security/access and data archiving & retention. In this role the person is also expected to be well versed in creating/maintaining/reverse engineering data models that enable the understanding and documentation of data standards, metadata and entity & domain relationships and the flow of data across business applications. Implementation of intended business architecture, conceptual flows, system data flows and create an inventory of the data needed to implement the architecture vision. The right candidate will be a Self-motivated, results driven technologist, who is passionate about collaboration and consensus building, but can work independently and lead highly technical cross functional teams.

Data Architect Duties & Responsibilities 

• Data Analysis of current state, reverse engineer data models & data mapping. Document & Manage data standards, semantic layer mapping, data flows and conceptual flows.
• Identify, define & classify master data across the enterprise landscape.
• Define & manage how client data will be stored, consumed, integrated and managed across the enterprise by different customer/business applications & IT systems & Users.
• Lead, Mentors, coaches and educates team members in standard processes, policies and procedures related to a specific technology. Creates and enforces technology-specific guidelines, standards, policies and procedures.
• Working with business and IT teams to develop and maintain mappings/rules between business applications & business data and interfaces. Set standards for data management (master & transaction), analyze current state and conceive desired future state.
• Applies architectural and technology concepts to address scalability, security, reliability, maintainability and sharing of enterprise data.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions align with the overall Enterprise Architecture Framework/Roadmap
• Function as escalation point for cross functional SMEs.

Data Architect Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or relevant experience.
• 8+ years of professional solution development and design experience
• Expert with Master Data Management concepts and systems
• Expert with data modeling tools in creating medium to large-scale enterprise logical data models using normalization techniques.
• Expert with data modeling in both relational and unstructured databases.
• Expert in Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehouse enterprise platforms.
• Expert working knowledge of Stored Procedures and SQL coding
• Experienced with NoSQL topologies using tools like Hadoop, Elastic, Cassandra, Mongo, etc.
• Experience with search and caching services with Elasticsearch or Solr
• Experience in cloud data warehousing like BigQuery, Snowflake or RedShift
• Experience in data streaming technologies like Kinesis and Kafka
• Experience with .Net development and web development.
• Experience with ETL technologies.

About DAT

DAT operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Transportation brokers, carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for market trends and data insights derived from 279 million freight matches (2018 est.) and a database of $57 billion of market transactions.

DAT Solutions offers competitive compensation and an excellent benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, flexible savings accounts, 401K, Life and AD&D insurance, a comprehensive Paid Leave program, and a Tuition Reimbursement program. Participation is limited to regular full-time employees.

DAT Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

Sponsorship and relocation assistance are not offered at this time for this position.  

All referrals and résumés are managed exclusively through the Human Resources Department. DAT Solutions will not consider unsolicited résumés from vendors including search firms, fee-based referral services and/or recruitment agencies.