Job Title: Data Architect

Duration: 6+ months contract

Location: Atlanta, GA-Remote

Responsibilities:

The Sr IT Architect is a seasoned member of a team delivering new technology capabilities to the Company’s owners, customers, and partners within the organization.

The Sr IT Architect helps set the vision and parameters that Agile delivery teams operate within.

In addition, the Sr IT Architect helps develop and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company’s standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead the design of cloud-native, scalable, and cost-effective architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Provide expertise in designing solutions for data processing, storage, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence on GCP.
• Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, integrating GCP services with on-premises and other cloud platforms.
• Define, document, and evangelize the data integration patterns between GCP the eco-system (AWS, Salesforce, SaaS, PaaS, and On-Prem)
• Implement security best practices for GCP environments, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and data protection.
• Design and enforce security controls such as network isolation, firewalls, and VPNs to safeguard sensitive data and applications.
• Create and maintain detailed architectural artifacts (e.g., architecture diagrams, design documents, data models) to visualize, communicate, and document the cloud solutions and architectures using tools like Lucidchart to create and update diagrams that represent cloud architectures, data flows, security models, and integration points.
• Document decision-making processes, trade-offs, and rationale behind architecture choices to support future scaling, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Develops a unified architecture that is scalable across the organization, ensures the use of industry and enterprise technology standards, and develops a roadmap incorporating industry best practices.

Experience:

• Typically, a minimum of 10-15+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies, or processes related to the position.

Technical skills and knowledge:

• Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of technologies supported.
• Expert understanding of the designs and technology footprints of multiple products within a product family.
• Champion engineering process disciplines (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL).
• Champion industry process improvement programs (e.g., CMMI, IOS-9000, FDA, Six Sigma).

Required Skills:

Middleware Focused: Java, REST, Enterprise Caching Architectures, Messaging Based Architecture e.g. Kafka , Micro Service Architecture, Public Facing APIs and API Gateways, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Data Transformation and ETL

Data Focused: Big Data, Data Design Principles and Best Practices, Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms, Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions, BI tools, GCP Analytic Tools, Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, Forecast and Demand Planning Applications, Master Data Management Applications

Preffered Skills:

Cloud Focused: Google Cloud & Big Query, Salesforce and Data Cloud, AWS and cloud-native architectures

Data Focused: Hospitality Data, Big Data, Relational Data, AI/ML, Data Pipelines, BI Tools & Reporting

Middleware Focused: Web Application, Native Application, Property Management System, Kubernetes