Duquesne Light Company · 2 days ago
Cloud Data Architect
Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expDuquesne Light Company, headquartered in downtown Pittsburgh, is a leader in providing electric energy and has a strong commitment to technological innovation and customer service. The Cloud Data Architect will design, develop, and implement data models for enterprise systems to facilitate data accessibility and insights, while advocating for data modeling best practices and leveraging cloud technologies.
Electrical DistributionEnergyEnergy Efficiency
Responsibilities
Develop and deliver long-term strategic goals for data architecture vision and standards with data users, department managers, business partners, and other key stakeholders
Create short-term tactical solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall data management roadmap
Collaborate with third parties and business subject matter experts to enable company strategic imperatives that require secure and accessible data cloud capabilities or assist in curating data required to enrich models
Collaborate with IT Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Platforms, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data Quality and Data Governance stakeholders to:
Develop processes for governing the identification, collection, and use of corporate metadata
Take steps to assure metadata accuracy and validity
Track data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvement
Conduct cloud consumption cost forecasting, usage requirements, proof of concepts, proof of business value, feasibility studies, and other tasks
Create strategies and plans for data security, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and archiving
Ensure that data strategies and architectures are in regulatory compliance
Liaise with vendors, cloud providers and service providers to select the solutions or services that best meet company goals
Develop and promote data management methodologies and standards
Select and implement the appropriate tools, software, applications, and systems to support data technology goals
Oversee the mapping of data sources, data movement, interfaces, and analytics, with the goal of ensuring data quality
Collaborate with scrum masters, project managers, and business unit leaders for all projects involving enterprise data
Address data-related problems in regard to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple-platform integration
Act as a leader and advocate of data management, including coaching, training, and career development to staff
Develop and implement key components as needed to create testing criteria to guarantee data architecture's fidelity and performance
Document the data architecture and environment to maintain a current and accurate view of the larger data picture
Identify and develop opportunities for data reuse, migration, or retirement
Act as a technical leader to the organization for Data Architecture and Data Engineering best practices
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, or relevant discipline
Twelve (12) or more years of experience is required
Hands-on experience with data architecting, data mining, large-scale data modeling, cloud data storage and analytics platforms
Experience with Azure, AWS or Google data capabilities
Direct experience in implementing data solutions in the cloud
Strong understanding of relational data structures, theories, principles, and practices
Strong familiarity with metadata management and associated processes
Hands-on knowledge of enterprise repository tools, data modeling tools, data mapping tools, and data profiling tools
Demonstrated expertise with repository creation, and data and information system life cycle methodologies
Experience with business requirements analysis, entity relationship planning, database design, reporting structures, and so on
Ability to manage data and metadata migration
Experience with database platforms, including Oracle RDBMS
Strong written and oral communication skills
Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
Preferred
Advanced degrees in a related field preferred
Relevant professional certifications preferred
Utilities experience (oil, gas, and/or electric) strongly preferred
Five (5) or more-years' work experience as a data or information architect
Experience with Databricks, Synapse, Foundry, Power BI, and/or Snowflake preferred
Experience with Enterprise platforms such as Oracle, Maximo etc preferred
Experience with GIS Geo-Spatial Data, time-phased PI Historian or collector data preferred
Understanding of Web services (SOAP, XML, UDDI, WSDL)
Object-oriented programming experience (e.g. using Java, J2EE, EJB, .NET, WebSphere, etc.)
Proven project management experience
Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
Company
Duquesne Light Company
Duquesne Light Company Provides energy services to southwestern Pennsylvania.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2004-06-14IPO
Leadership Team
Mark E. Kaplan CPA
Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
Matthew Ankrum
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
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