Akkodis is seeking a Lead Data Architect for a Fulltime position with a client located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Salary Range: $130,000 to $150,000/ Year(The salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors)
Title: Lead Data Architect
Location: Remote but local to Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Type : Direct Hire
Responsibilities :
Data Governance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as data engineers, architects, technology leads, business analysts, and other cross-functional stakeholders to establish data quality standards, policies, procedures, data ownership, access control, and data definitions.
- Establish trust and relationships with stakeholders while defining data governance requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Develop and maintain a centralized metadata catalog, and dictionary to document data assets, schemas, and lineage of data being managed by us and third-party applications.
- Define data access policies and classify assets based on sensitivity, confidentiality, and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance with privacy regulations such as CCPA, and GDPR.
Data Architecture and Strategy
- Work closely with business and IT teams to participate in the development of an overall Data analytics and AI strategy aligned with the business goals.
- Lead data architecture, data integration design, and data migration projects.
- Lead strategy to consolidate customer, product, inventory, and transactional data from different data on-prem and cloud data sources.
- Architect roadmap expansion of MDM, data analytics landscape.
Data Quality Management
- Develop and implement data quality metrics, monitoring, quality assessments, and audit processes.
- Create reports and reconciliation processes on data quality and work with the business to improve data quality iteratively.
- Proactively identify data quality issues and work with relevant teams to resolve them.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that business intelligence is performed through consistent data sources and calculations.
Qualifications :
- Strategic thinker capable of assessing business goals and translating them into a data architecture roadmap.
- Proficient in data analytics, data quality management, governance, life cycle management, integration, and modeling concepts.
- Ability to analyze and interpret data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, explain complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and facilitate data-related discussions.
- Effective problem-solving skills to address data quality issues, data integration challenges, and data governance concerns.
- Meticulous attention to detail to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Understanding of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and compliance requirements.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and build positive relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Flexibility to adapt to evolving data management practices, technologies, and business requirements.
- Ability to work in a dynamic and ambiguous environment.
- Awareness of ethical considerations related to data stewardship, including data privacy, confidentiality, and security.
- Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, principles, and best practices.
Academic Qualifications and Experience
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, data management, statistics, mathematics, or a related field.
- Prior experience working in a customer data platform (CDP), and MDM platform such as Oracle, Epsilon, Informatica, Reltio, Prosifee etc.
- Previous experience in data management, governance, analysis, or related fields.
- 10+ years of experience working as a data architect, data engineer, data steward, or similar positions.
- 5+ years of experience with the data lake, Lambda architecture, and data architecture practice.
- 5+ years of experience working in data modeling, SQL DBMS, and related tools.
- 5+ years of experience in data governance and data quality management.
- Experience working with data management tools, data profiling tools, data quality tools, and data integration tools.
- Experience working with ERP products such as Oracle, Manhattan, SAP etc.
- Experience working with ECOM platforms like HCL, Salesforce, Adobe, Shopify ,SAP etc.
- Certifications in Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), Certified Information Management Professional (CIMP), or certifications in data governance or data quality management are preferred.
- Experience in multi-channel retail, especially apparel or fashion, is a plus.
Benefits include but are not limited to:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- 401K
- PTO/Paid Holidays
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