Wawa, Inc. · 3 weeks ago
Data Architect – Enterprise Data Platform
Media, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expWawa, Inc. is a company dedicated to enhancing daily experiences for its customers and associates. The Data Architect – Enterprise Data Platform is responsible for providing data strategy, design, development, and governance oversight of Wawa’s Enterprise Data Platform, ensuring alignment with enterprise data management standards and optimal performance.
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Responsibilities
Provide subject matter expertise on Data Architecture. Understand platform and integration capabilities to advocate/discuss these with business and technology stakeholders
Contribute to the development and evolution of the Enterprise Reference Architecture and the Information Architecture
Communicate, educate and ensure adherence to sound data management principles and where possible, the re-use of data as well creating and managing meta-data and business rules for the use of data
Establish guiding principles and a reusable methodology for managing information architecture deliverables
Analyze business processes, operational applications and source data to understand dependencies, anomalies and implicit business rules that impact the ability to manage the master data
Create the high-level architecture and data solution design for projects (conceptual model, integration model, sourcing) in alignment with the portfolio and enterprise data strategy
Translate enterprise or business needs into long-term information architecture solutions
Apply enterprise vision to all portfolio, technical and application projects understanding and communicating different architectural models/strategies that are consistent with business strategies
Design, develop and maintain logical and physical data models
Perform data profiling and analysis and develop data models that correspond to the business and technical requirements. Review and sign-off on all project data models
Work with project managers and across the architecture organization to develop the approach and cost estimates to produce information architecture deliverables for projects
Assess and facilitate engagement of other data management services (DBA and data integration) for the projects within the portfolio
Provide high level tracking of project progress, with respect to data architecture deliverables, to ensure timely delivery and efficient use and staffing of data architecture resources
Design databases, data lakes, and data warehouses
Develop and maintain a formal description of the data and data structures including the data models, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries and technical metadata
Collaborate with Data Engineers on data model, its maintenance and optimization as well as end-to-end data driven integration strategy
Participate in developing the future state data architecture standards, guidelines, and principles
Define vision, strategy and principles for data management
Define standards for naming, describing, governing, managing, modelling, cleansing, enriching, transforming, moving, storing, searching and delivering all data within the enterprise. Builds high quality data pipelines driving analytic solutions
Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions
Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features
Create and publish architecture strategies, statements of direction, standards, and guidelines
Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements
Partner with various internal and external teams to drive implementation and testing
Gain alignment on critical issues with stakeholders
Apply test and learn mindset to define requirements and manage product backlog
Work with agile development teams to plan iteration, clarify stories and review test cases
Test and accept product features
Qualification
Required
Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, MIS or Marketing preferred
5+ years' experience in data architecture, data warehousing and data lake platforms
Applied experience and expertise in data architecture concepts (e.g. model management, meta-data management, data governance)
Experience delivering concurrent, large information management projects at all phases-from project definition through design and delivery
Demonstrated proficiency in requirements gathering and analysis processes and methodologies
Experience developing a data strategy and working within and influencing the associated policies
Understanding of cloud (AWS, GCP) computing and architecture
Understanding of Big Data and related data management technologies
Demonstrated knowledge of Agile process, principles and product development process as an Agile Product Owner
Experience working with Data Models include working with an Enterprise Canonical Data Model preferred
Experience working with Data Vault methodology preferred
Experience working with Snowflake and Databricks
Experience working with Data Integration tools, Data Flow Design and source to target mapping required
Preferred
Experience with Domain Driven Design and Service Oriented Architecture preferred
Company
Wawa, Inc.
Here at Wawa, the sky's the limit. Voted as “America’s Favorite Convenience Store,” Wawa operates a chain of convenience retail stores located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Washington D.C.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.71MKey Investors
PennDOT
2023-08-15Grant· $0.71M
Leadership Team
Grahame Wood
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