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