Data Architect

About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world s leading brands
• Solve complex problems - and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

Job Title: Data Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Strong technical leadership and mentor skills.
• Expected to drive critical delivery initiatives while also skilling up their teammates in the process.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders and members of Product engineering teams and translate business needs into technical capabilities.
• Collaborate and coordinate with the leadership in deriving data roadmaps and alignment of solutions into strategic data initiatives
• Establish best practices and constant oversight for improving the architecture to meet the changing requirements.

Qualifications:

• Deep experience building data pipelines leveraging Spark (Azure Databricks or Apache Spark), Airflow.
• Deep understanding of Big Data Platform
• Strong experience with Snowflake including snowsql, snow pipes, user authentication & Authorizations, Warehouse management, Storage integration etc.
• Experience with data modeling and data formats including Avro, Parquet, ORC, JSON
• Experience Using airflow at scale, with integration to meta-data and lineage systems of record.
• Experience with Azure Data services (ADLS, ADF, Event Hub, Azure functions)
• Experience working with Python for Spark (Pyspark)
• Strong experience of event streaming platforms like Kafka, Kafka Connect, ksql.
• Strong working experience with SQL (SQL Server, Oracle preferred. Any other database with strong exposure to Ansi-SQL or T-SQL is fine too.)
• Operational experience troubleshooting and monitoring airflow environments and associated task execution.

Location: Hybrid in Pittsburgh, PA

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $165,000- $180,000 annually. Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal day accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 day of paid vacation time] [6 paid holiday and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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