Job Description
Job Description Data Architect Atlanta, GA
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Data Architecture & Design
- Define and own the enterprise data architecture aligned with business strategy and cloud-first principles.
- Design and implement AWS-based data lake architectures, leveraging Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers).
- Establish standards for data modeling (conceptual, logical, and physical) for analytical and reporting workloads.
- Drive architectural decisions for batch and near real-time data processing.
AWS & Cloud Technologies
- Architect solutions using AWS services such as:
- S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Lake Formation
- EMR, Lambda, Step Functions
- Kinesis / MSK (streaming, where applicable)
- Ensure architectures are secure, scalable, cost-optimized, and highly available.
- Collaborate with cloud platform teams to align on networking, IAM, encryption, and governance.
Data Engineering & Integration
- Guide data ingestion patterns from multiple sources (operational systems, SaaS platforms, APIs, streaming sources).
- Define standards for ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration, and data quality frameworks.
- Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure architectural integrity during implementation.
Business Intelligence & Analytics
- Enable BI and analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight) through optimized data models and semantic layers.
- Design Gold-layer datasets optimized for reporting, dashboards, and advanced analytics.
- Ensure consistency and reliability of enterprise KPIs and metrics.
Governance, Quality & Security
- Establish data governance principles including metadata management, lineage, cataloging, and stewardship.
- Define data quality rules, monitoring, and remediation processes.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leadership.
- Review and approve solution designs, ensuring alignment with target architecture.
- Mentor data engineers, analysts, and junior architects.
- Contribute to roadmap planning and modernization initiatives.