Senior Data Architect- Hybrid Chicago

Senior Data Architect

Location: Hybrid Chicago Area. Work onsite 3-5 days a week.

Our client, a leader in global market access, is looking for a Sr. Data Architect – Team Lead. Their ideal candidate will work with their enterprise architect to develop a program, run as process owner, and build/configure acquire tooling to support the program.

Experience with AWS, Terraform, and Data Lake is required.

Requirements and Required Experience:

Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or related degree.

7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with public clouds (AWS required)

5+ years of experience in Data Lake platform implementation

5+ years of experience with Terraform

3+ years of IT management experience

Experience building and leading engineering teams

Experience in designing, building, and running enterprise distributed systems, real-time ETL, and data pipelines

Experience with AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift

Extensive experience working with RDBMS, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka

Experience with programming languages such as Java and Python

Design solutions with performance, maintainability, scalability, and reliability in mind

Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC)

Knowledge of and experience with serverless big data solutions in AWS

Exceptional personal communication and teamwork interaction skills

Able to work independently and collaboratively

Proven leadership skills and demonstrated ability to mentor, influence, and partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable, robust solutions.

Willingness to learn and improve

Daily Responsibilities:

Lead the development of patterns, standards, and best practices in the data engineering and solutions space

Review and identify data solutions in collaboration with the technology teams across the enterprise

Work with engineering teams to implement architectures

Influence product and delivery requirements, roadmaps, and vision

Lead data architecture strategy, design, and best practices data platforms and related solutions

Manage data engineering team under the Enterprise Architecture organization

Reports to the Chief of Architect

Delivers:

Deliver enterprise solutions/architectures with emphasis on data privacy, integrity, scalability, and availability

Produce organized and comprehensive system architectures and the related documentation

Design and build functioning proof of concepts for proposed architectures

To be successful in this position, you will have:

Exceptional personal communication and teamwork interaction skills

Able to work independently and collaboratively

Proven leadership skills and demonstrated ability to mentor, influence, and partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable, robust solutions.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Have a startup personality and enjoy working as part of a team.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapid-growth environment.

Company Benefits & Perks

Salary $250,000 +

Retirement plan 401(k) with a competitive company match

Excellent health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches, and counseling services through Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Paid time off and a generous parental leave policy

Daily company lunch allowance provided, and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack

Corporate events, including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities, and company sports teams

Education reimbursement and learning opportunities

Modern offices with multi-monitor setups

Sponorship is not available at this time