The Cloud Data Architect will lead the design, development, and implementation of the organization's data architecture strategy and roadmap in alignment with the business objectives. The candidate should have a strong understanding of data management principles, enterprise architecture frameworks, and data modeling techniques. The incumbent will play a key role in driving data-driven decision-making processes and fostering a culture of data governance and stewardship within the organization. Res... more details
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Job Summary
The Cloud Data Architect will lead the design, development, and implementation of the organization's data architecture strategy and roadmap in alignment with the business objectives. The candidate should have a strong understanding of data management principles, enterprise architecture frameworks, and data modeling techniques. The incumbent will play a key role in driving data-driven decision-making processes and fostering a culture of data governance and stewardship within the organization.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for reviewing and analyzing an organization's data infrastructure, planning future databases, and implementing solutions to store and manage data for organizations and their users. Duties include creating database solutions, evaluating requirements, and preparing design reports.
- Collbaoration with stakeholders across various departments to define data requirements, ensure data integrity, and optimize data structures for performance and scalability.
- Develop and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy and roadmap in alignment with business objectives.
- Design and implement data models, data flows, and data integration processes to support business applications and analytics initiatives.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners to gather and analyze data requirements.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to data engineers, database administrators, and other members of the data architecture team.
- Define data standards, policies, and best practices to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Evaluate and recommend data management technologies, tools, and platforms to support the organization's data needs.
- Lead efforts to rationalize and modernize existing data systems and infrastructure to optimize performance and reduce complexity.
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in enterprise data management.
Qualifications
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Education Level
Area of Specialization (Marketing, Finance, Pharmacy, Engineering/IT, etc)
Bachelor Degree
Computer Science, IT or Engineering
Required
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Fundamentals of data warehouse, cloud platforms, business intelligence tool.
Required
Ability to iterate on designs and solutions intelligently and efficiently.
Required
Ability to communicate processes, concepts, and solutions clearly and effectively to teams and clients.
Required
Ability to create experience maps, user journeys, data models, flows and prototypes.
Required
Attention to detail and the ability to work on multiple projects at once.
Required
Proven success in producing quality deliverables and meeting project deadlines.
Required
Ability to excel in a collaborative environment and deliver work against tight deadlines.
Required
WORK EXPERIENCE
Experience
Areas of Experience (Pharmacy, Compliance, E-commerce, Retail, etc)
Experience delivering large projects within an agile environment
Required
7 years of experience in MDM, Metadata Management, Data Quality and Data Lineage tools.E2E Data Architecture and data lifecycle including nonfunctional requirements and operations management.
Required
10 years of experience in Regulatory and Compliance work in Data Management. Experience with SQL and NoSQL modern data stores.
Required
5 years of experience in cloud provider data solutions.
Required
7 years of experience in architecting data solutions on Google Cloud Platform e.g. Big Data Projects, AI, Data Migrations, BI, etc..Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the client organization for GCP end-to-end architecture networking, provisioning, and management.
Required
7 years of experience in working with Google Data Products BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, AI Building Blocks, Looker, Cloud Data Fusion, Dataprep, etc..
Required
7 years of experience in developing solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
Required
Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk.
7 years of experience in Providing support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.
7 years of experience in working with or integrating SaaS, PaaS, or other cloud-based solutions.
Required
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Note to All Applicants Regarding Rite Aid’s Drug-Free Workplace Policy: Rite Aid maintains a strict policy prohibiting illegal drug activity and using, being under the influence of, or possessing illegal drugs and/or alcohol during the Work Day as well as on Company Property as defined in Rite Aid’s Drug-Free Workplace Policy. Rite Aid conducts post-offer pre-employment drug testing of all job candidates. Additionally, the Company conducts drug and/or alcohol testing in certain pre-promotion, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident scenarios along with drug loss investigations unless expressly prohibited by law. You have the right to refuse to submit to testing; however, a refusal to submit to a test when asked will result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment or termination of employment. All records relating to drug tests shall be kept confidential. A copy of the policy is available from hiring management upon request.
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EEO Statement
Rite Aid is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment where individual differences are appreciated and respected. It is our policy, through responsible management, to recruit, hire, train, and promote associates regardless of their race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other basis protected by state or federal law. The objective of this policy is to ensure conformity with the principles of equal opportunity employment when making employment decisions and administering compensation, benefits, transfer, and social and recreational programs. Rite Aid prohibits unlawful retaliation against any person who reports harassment or discrimination.
