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Company

Thrivent · 1 day ago

Sr. Data Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$133K/yr - $180K/yr

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Responsibilities

Oversee and direct efforts to identify information and technology solutions that enable business needs and strategies.

Apply business knowledge and experience to effective advise others on technology as an enabler.

Lead efforts to analyze IT industry and market trends and determine potential impacts.

Develop concepts and constructs necessary to create technology-enabled business systems.

Influence technology direction.

Provides thought leadership and execution to large complex efforts.

Utilize breadth of technical understanding and dive deep when necessary.

Consult on and manage initiatives to ensure alignment across multiple business and IT areas.

Proactively mitigate risks across multiple assets, information domains, technologies and platforms.

Provide leadership, mentoring and technical guidance to others to drive initiatives.

Facilitate communications that involve obtaining cooperation and agreement on issues that may be complex or controversial.

Utilize negotiation and persuasion to come to agreement and to effectively form partnerships.

Act as a change agent to continuously improve and move the organization forward.

Accountable to provide leadership to successfully deliver the right results on initiatives in a timely and effective manner.

Direct the work of others to lead initiatives that cross multiple assets, technologies, platforms, departments and vendors.

Ability to work within a diverse team of skillsets and experience levels to deliver results.

Lead the definition of conceptual and logical architecture specifications (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture) for the enterprise.

Lead, drive, and align the definition of architecture standards that are aligned with business goals, IT strategy and enterprise architecture visions.

Ensure that architecture decisions are consistent between departments and leverage opportunities for common approaches.

Serve as an architecture conduit for external requests, and provide education on enterprise architecture directions and goals.

Effectively manage organizational impacts of architecture.

Direct and lead enterprise architectural efforts, utilizing cross-functional knowledge (strategy, change management and business process management).

Provide architecture direction and guidance to other project architects and technical staff

Lead effort to analyze IT industry and market trends and determine potential impact upon enterprise.

Lead effort to identify and analyze enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical, and solution architecture requirements.

Lead effort to work with the business users, enterprise architect and application engineers to develop the overall architecture approach and application for all levels of a solution.

Assist in the development of architectural best practices and standards.

Provide leadership and technical guidance to Architects.

Lead effort to implement overall architecture approach for all layers of a solution.

Lead effort to ensure that enterprise architecture standards, policies, and procedures are enacted uniformly across application development projects and programs.

Review the deliverables throughout the development cycle to ensure quality and traceability to requirements and adherence to all quality management plans and standards.

Lead effort to review and provide input on proposals from an architectural perspective, including feasibility, practicality, technical viability, and consistency.

Assess and recommend infrastructure and application solutions for upgrades to meet business needs.

Develop strong knowledge base in particular domain.

Lead effort to support lines of business, and support staff and technology areas who are implementing projects that impact the architecture.

Qualification

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Service Oriented ArchitectureEnterprise Application Integration (EAI)Data EngineeringData ArchitectureApplication ServersTechnical PatternsDatabricksAWSSnowflakeAutomationDevOpsData Ops

Required

Experience with industry standard technologies, tools and methods including Service Oriented Architecture, EAI, and Application Servers, frameworks, mainframe and databases.

Demonstrated leadership on large scale projects impacting strategic priorities

Strong communication skills and excellence in articulating the architectural patterns and principles

Strong relationship-building and interpersonal skills.

Strong skills in data engineering, data architecture, technical patterns, analytics and reporting

Experience leading data lake implementations on Databricks or AWS or Snowflake is a plus

Experience in establishing automation and Devops/Data Ops