Data Architect, Customer Data & Marketing Technology

Data Architect, Customer Data & Marketing Technology

Location: Phoenix, AZ Duration: 12 Months

Essential Functions:

• Create and maintain data architecture designs that support business and technical requirements for high-quality, performant data solutions in support of a Marketing Technology Stack.
• Use your expertise to drive innovation. Create best-in-class data solutions with approved security, regulatory, and compliant process that have strong referenceable documentation.
• Leverage strong interpersonal skills to manage and engage with third party vendors and providers.
• Ability to lead technical requirements as input into RFP process to select appropriate tools, and then inform the data architecture and flow within those systems and platforms.
• Create and maintain documentation related to data architecture standards, protocols, and frameworks.
• Implement data modeling standards and ensure adherence within data management solutions.
• Assessment and recommendations regarding data engineering practices, monitoring and orchestration.
• Recommend low touch, automated architectural decisions to address business needs. Research and recommend tools and services to improve data management processes and support architectural standards and patterns.
• Participate in data solution prototyping initiatives.
• Develop mapping of data sources, data movement, interfaces, and architecture, with the goal of ensuring data quality.
• Create and maintain data model and metadata policies and procedures for functional design.
• Provide technical recommendations and engage with ETL, BI, Integration, Solution, System, and security Architects.
• Translate business requirements into data models and meta data, test data, and data quality standards.
• Mentor and educate more junior data architecture team members.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Self-starter with strong business acumen who understands organizational issues and challenges.
• Entrepreneurial multi-tasker who can be highly efficient with ambiguity and complexity and enjoys being able to navigate changing direction of projects and strategies.
• Skills to understand the culture and emotional blockers for people's willingness to embrace change.
• Strategic thinking and act operationally.
• Exceptional analytical, written, oral, and presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative working style.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in the field of engineering, computer science or equivalent advance technology field of study.
• Experience with CRM systems, email service providers, mobile app technology, and Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) required.
• At least 5 years of experience architecting customer data solutions.
• Experience with first party data collection and management required.
• Data and analytics architecture, and data lake/data warehousing.
• Data Analysis, Data Modelling (ERD), Master Data Management patterns and implementation, Data Landscape Design (Data Flow, API).
• Cloud Architecture (Azure) Databases (SQL, Mongo) and Cloud DW (Databricks).
• Data schema such as star schemas, relational and data vault structures.
• Superior coding with complex SQL.

Personality Traits:

• Professional, thoughtful, leadership style.
• Ability to hear feedback and influence.
• Maintain high levels of integrity and dependability.
• Maintain a focus on results, quality and customer satisfaction.
• Works well in a team environment and effectively manage work activities.
• Project a professional demeanor and appearance.
• Be extremely flexible and adaptable.
• Demonstrates the ability to function and stay focused in a constant pressure, fast growing and ever-changing organization.
• Ability to work with and manage vendor partner relationships.

Sprouts Technical Landscape:

• On Prem 1st party data sources: SQL Databases.
• Cloud Technology solutions: Azure Data Lake.
• Integration Platforms: DMA & Azure API Management.
• Analytics: Azure Synapse, Power BI.
• Machine Learning: Azure Databricks.
• Marketing Automation: Braze.
• Digital asset management: Aprimo.
• Ecommerce: Instacart Storefront Pro & Marketplace delivery.