Data & Analytics: Platform Architect

What You'll Do in the role of a Data Architect,
- You'll work to lead end-to-end strategic technical transformation efforts across multiple data platforms both on-prem and cloud. You will provide knowledge backed leadership across the community to drive both the business goals and outcomes as well as to catalyse the knowledge acquisition of the teams around you. You will work directly with the business architecture and solutions teams and their respective leadership teams to create a vision and long-term strategies that will enable Cisco’s future state technical transformation effectively and efficiently as possible while minimizing impacts to current business.

Key Responsibilities Include
- Supervise business use and performance of the Teradata data warehouse and provides feedback to data warehouse DBAs, ETL (Extract Transform Load) developers and provide mentoring and assistance in sql tuning to business partners and users.
- Be responsible for technical transformations, bringing to bear your knowledge of the best ways and tools, quickly go through tech stack and code to understand a Data and analytics ecosystem and deliver on transformation needs.
- Fix and resolve user and database issues to ensure the data warehouse meets service level requirements.
- Develop, manage, schedule, and document data warehouse operations and tasks, including archival, security, backup & workload management.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and arrive at a methodology to overcome the same proactively.
- Experience towards implementing processes towards database security and governance.
- Strong knowledge on database replication and data modelling.
- Expertise on scripting tools like Python, Shell and the ability to implement automation to drive efficiencies.
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools like Airflow, etc.
- Knowledge of designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining the ETL/ELT process and data flow, including data quality using various data integration tools.
- Understanding of cloud technologies and solutions available on AWS and GCP such as Cloud Data Lake, query engines, cloud storage, compute, networking setup for connecting across multiple cloud providers, user access management and security.
- Experience with cloud ETL tools like Informatica, Matillion, Fivetran
- Experience with workflow schedulers like Apache Airflow

Who You'll Work with?

As part of the Digital Enterprise Solutions - Chief Data office team, you will work with the team responsible for leading and governing Enterprise Data foundation and metrics. You'll be part of the team of data architects, analysts and engineers while being surrounded by a sophisticated, dynamic, creative and passionate organization that is leading efforts to digitize and demonstrate data in ways it’s never been done before.

Who You Are?
- You are a game-changer with innovation on your mind.
- You enjoy a fast-paced environment that requires high levels of collaboration. You are highly proficient with data including analysing sets of data.
- You are able to have data-driven conversations by understanding systems and business processes.
- You have soft skills like negotiation and working with diverse teams.
- You have superb communication and teamwork skills.
- You are experienced in data modelling and architecture.
- You are experienced in Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
- Have the ability to drive outcomes bigger than what you can deliver individually, by working with the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

- 15+ years of full-time Data Platforms/Data Architecture experience.
- Should have a very good hands on experience in working with ETL/ELT technologies, Database platforms (Snowflake, AWS, Google)/Teradata, AWS Technology Stacks, Informatica/DBT/Fivetran, SQL and Python.
- 10+ years of database design and administration experience
- 5+ years of Teradata or equivalent on-prem/ Cloud Data warehousing experience

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