Enterprise Data Architect

Enterprise Data Architect

Bangalore, India or Chennai, India

The Opportunity:
Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

Primary responsibilities will include:

- Working closely with business stakeholders to understand architectural business requirements. Identifying and modeling integrative views and determining the quality-of-service requirements - data currency, availability, response times and data volumes, security, and quality
- Assessing current state of customer data and analytics platforms across the enterprise and documenting the recommended roadmap for architecture, technology, and process improvements to leverage data to achieve business outcomes
- Focusing on data quality by educating the business on its importance and driving the implementation of quality data management and improvement programs
- Documenting the flow and movement of data through the enterprise including:

- The frequency of movement
- The source and destination of each step in the flow
- Any transformation of data during the flow
- Any aggregation and calculations of data in the flow
- Communicating the data architecture to the development community, IT operations, IT management at all levels, and business owners
- Facilitating discussions between Technology and business people, recognizing areas of conflict and inconsistency between data requirements and pursuing a resolution of these issues
- Defining technical standards and guidelines for how to use architected databases, the technologies to be used for various purposes like data extraction, transformation and integration, and models of entities, objects and processes
- Ensuring that standards are up to date by investigating emerging technologies and new releases in collaboration with Application Architects
- Participating in proof-of-concept projects and other projects that are early users of new technologies

Required skills/qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering) or similar work experience
- 12-15 years of experience in integration architecture and database solution design and implementation
- Mastery of multidimensional data modeling with experience creating enterprise data flow diagrams, enterprise data models, enterprise data architecture diagrams, data catalogs, and data dictionaries
- Expertise in database technologies such as SQL server database, Snowflake, etc. as well as data modeling, both logical and physical
- Experience designing and implementing data ingestion techniques for real-time and batch data pipelines from disparate data sources
- Extremely strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Outstanding oral, written, and visual presentation skills
- Ability to thrive when working across internal functional areas in ambiguous situations
- Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

- Excellent project management skills including the ability to lead in an environment with multiple partners and contending priorities
- Advanced degree in Applied Mathematics, Business Analytics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.