Job Title: Data Architect

Location: Dallas, TX

Remote/Onsite: Day 1 onsite at customer location

• Design solution architectures that consider functionality, cost, performance, scalability, reusability and extensibility.
• Proactively build, develop and maintain stakeholder commitment at all levels and manage contradictory interests and concerns.
• Translate business requirements into models, guidelines and principles and define concepts and solutions for the GCS domain, in line with the relevant vision, roadmap and reference architecture.
• Develop a vision and roadmap regarding architecture and formulate roadmap based on broadly defined business strategy.
• Present and advice on proposals to all relevant stakeholders and facilitate directional decision making.
• Translate relevant requirements and deliverables into principles, specifications, standards, methods and tools.
• Monitor the contents and designs of the defined (sub-)systems against the requirements and deliverables and take or initiate corrective actions if needed.
• Define verification and validation activities in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain and share knowledge and knowhow, keeping pace with both internal and external (innovative) developments.
• Analyze and identify the root cause of problems and define corrective actions to prevent problems in the future.
• Provide expertise on the overall on best practices, standards, architectural approaches and complex technical resolutions.