Principal Data Architect

Principal Architect, Data Architecture And Solution EngineeringThe Principal Architect, Data Architecture and Solution Engineering, will be responsible for developing and executing the data strategy at the business unit level that powers the most advanced end-to-end solution architecture from transactional Systems of record to AI driven business intelligence for highly complex and significant technology transformation initiatives in partnership with key business and IT stakeholders.Roles and Responsibilities· Provide data technology leadership, oversight, and guidance to ensure that the solution adheres to PSS Architecture Guiding Principles and standards while maximizing reuse of technology assets.· In depth experience in performing Buy vs Build analysis based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis across the available options to provide a final recommendation based on the rationale· Play a key leadership role in architecture design reviews and identify gaps and recommend design changes.· Actively lead and participate in the Architecture community to drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of PBM data technologies while keeping in mind the complexities of our technology landscape· Develop data architectures, guardrails and guidelines to instill a strong data discipline, providing leadership, coaching and guidance to Engineering and Product teams across the organization.· Architect AI driven business intelligence powered by a Universal Semantic Layer delivering powerful predictive analytics and Natural Language queriesExperience with systems that produce dataExperience Architecting data where it’s bornExperience with data on the BI sideData Architecture for application built from ground up or modernizationHeavy data modeling (possibly had previous jobs as a data modeler vs a data engineer prior to architecture role(s).Multi DB environment background (rational and non-rational); Postgres, MySQL, NoSQLWorking with API streamsMust have excellent Comm skills.Be able to clearly communicate thoughts to teamBe able to talk to non-technical people - Business SideEnd to End solutioning from a Data Architecture perspectiveExperience with State of the Art systemsExperience with Postgres; NoSWL; MySQL BigQueryArchitecting Data from the start (he is seeing people who have the middle exp and that is not what he wants - more data lakes, etc)Data Architecture / apps from ground up. Complete re-engineering.Must be heavy on relational and non-relational databasesEarly career - data modeling expGet specs from biz then design from scratchAzure and GCP expHungry to learn about the domainSolutioning / Proof of Concept/Prototype / Presentation expMust have passion and commitment to the roleDo not move forward:Data platform experienceData engineering; moving data from A to BHeavy Data Lake experience