Data Solution Architect

Company: Entergy
Location: New Orleans
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Data Solution Architect**Date:** Mar 13, 2023**Location:** New Orleans, Louisiana, United States**Company:** Entergy**Posting End Date:** 01/04/2023**Work Place Flexibility:** Hybrid**Legal Entity:** Entergy Services, LLC**JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE**The data solution architect is an integral member of the product delivery teams, driving end-to-end technical designs for multiple projects to deliver analytic products to business customers. The data solution architect interacts with multiple customer stakeholders, understands their business and functional requirements and works with the product team to design and deliver technical solutions, leveraging the data analytics platform where possible. The data solution architect's key knowledge set includes system agile development life cycle, integration architectures, technology tools, database architectures, data management principles, data modelling techniques and methodologies, communication and problem solving. The data solution architect will design large scale, enterprise-wide data processing solutions, database schemas and interfaces to relational and non-relational databases. Additionally, the data solution architect will design small, temporary architectural solutions to support product delivery schedules should the enterprise data analytics platform be unavailable at the time the product must be delivered to a business customer.The data solution architect will act as a member of product teams, ensuring product team members understand the data solution architectures being designed and helps guide and oversee the implementation of solution architectures. The data solution architect will work closely with the IT department to ensure solution architectures will successfully operate in current technology environments.The data solution architect will work with other team members on the data analytics platform team to create plans and strategies for adopting new tools, technologies, and alternative solution architectures including leveraging the cloud.**JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES**1. Design conceptual data architectures solution for data-centric analytics projects.2. Analyze data sources, design and evaluate feasible technical solutions to be implemented by data engineers. The solutions might include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation and configuration management.3. Understand the complexity of data and design systems and models to handle different data sources/formats, which includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured, as well as stream processing.4. Use data mapping, data mining and data transformational analysis tools to design and develop technical solution architectures.5. Prepare and maintain accurate solution design and architectural documentations for delivery, platform and operations team.6. Play a contributing role in the development and update of enterprise data architectural strategies, patterns, standards, processes and tools as new/unique data sources, use cases and requirements come up.7. Support and adhere to the development of data management policies, standards and procedures.8. Define integrated views of data drawing together data from across the enterprise, both in real-time and as extracts.9. Collaborate with platform and IT to as need to finalize the right solution including pattern and architecture for the analytics use cases.10. Address governance and security challenges associated with solutions.11. Support the delivery team engineers in tuning queries for performance and scalability, help them package deployments and collaborate with IT to migrate code between Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Production environments.12. Support test automation, troubleshooting ETL job functionality, validating data, as well as create test data and table structures through use of SQL.13. Design and develop data pipelines or ETL processes.14. Must be able to work in an agile, rapid delivery environment.**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS****Minimum education required of the position**Bachelor's degree**Minimum experience required of the position**+ 7+ years of data strategy, architecture related experience designing, architecting, and implementing big data solutions.+ 5+ years of experience:+ Big Data and Big data technologies+ Extracting structured and unstructured data from files and database sources+ Architecting Analytics Solutions using data mining techniques+ Cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS).+ Data Modelling+ Data visualization tools such as PowerBI, Qlik and Tableau**Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position**+ Experience with traditional ETL integration tools as well as more modern real-time messaging/integration platforms.+ Experience with relational database modeling concepts and modeling for the modern big data platform.+ Strong understanding of Operational, Relational, Analytical, Master, and Reference data models.+ Understanding of Cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS).+ Knowledgeable in tools used to identify and manage structured and unstructured data.+ Expert using data governance technologies such as Collibra or Informatica EDC.+ Strong communicator at the technical levels+ Strong, demonstrated writing and presentation skills\#LI-HYBRID**Primary Location:** **Louisiana** **-** **New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans -- Texas : The Woodlands****Job Function** **:** **Professional****FLSA Status** **:****Relocation Option:** **No Relocation Offered****Union description/code** **:** **NA****Number of Openings** **:** **1****Req ID:** **110079****Travel Percentage** **:** **Up to 25%**An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please clickhere (https://jobs.entergy.com/content/EEO/?locale=en\_US) to view the EEO page, or see statements below.**EEO Statement:** The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.**Accessibility:** Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click **here (humanr@entergy.com?subject=Accessibility)** and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.**Additional Responsibilities:** As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.**Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement:** The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c). **Equal Opportunity (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/manual/fccm/2l-equal-opportunity-clauses-and-other-requirements/2l00-equal-opportunity)** and **Pay Transparency (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp\_%20English\_formattedESQA508c.pdf)** .The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.**WORKING CONDITIONS:**As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.**Job Segment:** Solution Architect, Quality Assurance, Data Architect, QA, Data Mining, Technology, Data, Quality

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