Data Architect

When you join Accurate Background, you’re an integral part of making every hire the start of a success story. Your contributions will help us fulfill our mission of advancing the background screening experience through visibility and insights, empowering our clients to make smarter, unbiased decisions.

Accurate Background is a fast-growing organization, focused on providing employment background screenings and building trustful relationships with our clients. Accurate Background continues to exceed expectations by offering an array of innovative and cutting-edge background check and credentialing products to meet the needs of human resource, loss prevention, and security/legal professionals in employment screening and vendor certification.

Lead Data/BI Architect, where you will take charge of developing and executing the enterprise-wide data & analytics strategy. As a senior leader within the organization, you will guide a small data team across integration and BI functions, shaping the data landscape and driving the company towards a single source of truth. This role demands a highly skilled and experienced individual who can deliver a comprehensive data strategy while ensuring robust governance, architecture, and integration across the accurate enterprise.

Lead Data Architect will oversee data governance, security, integration, and data quality initiatives. You will be instrumental in defining architectural design patterns, Data standards, and best practices while leading the team in implementing scalable, optimized, and secure data solutions that support business intelligence objectives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Should be able to understand different cloud Platforms/Architecture, preferably on AWS Platform Services for Data & Analytics
- Architect end-to-end data solutions on data lakes, warehouses, and real-time analytics.
- Should have Designed/Architected Medium to Large Data Warehouses
- Should have created Conceptual, Logical, Physical Data Models, OLTP, OLAP/Dimensional Data Models, Data Analysis
- Should be aware of Data Architecture/Design Patterns in the areas of Data Ingestion / Curation / Data Consumption / Reporting Semantic Models
- Should have participated in Defining Data Strategy/Roadmaps in Data & Analytics
- Should be hands on in some of the areas of the required Technology tools.
- Should be aware of Data fabric, Data Ingestion Tools, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Data Security
- Should have good experience in Designing Reusable utilities
- Should have good experience with Data Warehouse Migrations
- Should be aware of Agile Methodologies/Data Products, leading teams technically from Design to Development to Deployment, through DevOps, DataOps
- Automate data quality checks and validations to maintain high data integrity. Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across data platforms

**Qualifications**:

- Should have at least 12-15 years of total IT experience in Software Development, with 5 years exclusively in Design & Architecting Data Warehousing projects
- Should have good hands-on below tools & technologies

**Must Have**:

- Data Lake Architecture / Data Fabric
- Snowflake (Tasks, Streams, Stored Procs, Snow pipes), SQL Server
- Data Modeling tools (like Erwin)
- Data Warehouse Migrations
- Agile Methodologies
- Replication tools (like AWS DMS, Qlik Replicate)
- OLAP/Dimensional Data Models
- NoSQL Databases (like MongoDB)

**Good to have**:

- ETL Tools (like SSIS, dBT)
- BI/Reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau)
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Microsoft Fabric)
- Real-Time databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB)
- Solid understanding of the Agile development process and software release processes.
- Must be a self-starter who is highly organized, hands-on, and a team player.
- Should be able to create Design Documents/Mapping documents (either PPT or Word document)
- Should be able to communicate & Collaborate with all stakeholders (Director level, Business Units, other Architects, Product Managers, Scrum Stay updated on industry trends to continuously improve data systems and processes.

**The Accurate Way**:
We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. We have an unwavering commitment to diversity, ensuring everyone has a complete sense of belonging here. To do this, we follow four guiding principles - Take Ownership, Be Open, Stay Curious, Work as One - core values that dictate what we stand for, and how we behave.

**Take ownership.**

Be accountable for your actions, your team, and the company. Accept responsibility willingly, especially when it’s what’s best for our customers. Give others every reason to trust you, believe in you, and count on you. Rise to every occasion with your personal best.

**Be open.**

Be open to new ideas. Be inclusive of people and ways of doing things. Make yourself accessible and approachable, and communicate with genuineness, transparency, honesty, and respect. Embrace differences.

**Stay curious.*