Data Platform Architect

About Us:

LTIMindtree is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies. As a digital transformation partner to more than 700+ clients, LTIMindtree brings extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes in a converging world. Powered by nearly 90,000 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries, LTIMindtree — a Larsen & Toubro Group company — combines the industry-acclaimed strengths of erstwhile Larsen and Toubro Infotech and Mindtree in solving the most complex business challenges and delivering transformation at scale. For more information, please visit www.ltimindtree.com.

Job Title:

Data Platforms Architect

Work Location

Nashville, TN / Hybrid

Job Description:

If you are passionate about how digital technology is transforming business, plan your next career move with Client’s’s Technology-US.

Client’s’s breadth, depth, and scale, combined with our relentless passion for innovation create powerful opportunities to help our clients and our own organization stay ahead of change, deliver impact that matters, and transform complexity and disruption into lasting value.

Our teams are already leveraging Artificial Intelligence, analytics, and cutting-edge capabilities to transform how we serve clients and operate our business. Moreover, the team is also actively exploring nascent applications such as IoT, Blockchain and AR/VR.

Work you’ll do

This Data Architect position is aligned to our Client’s Technology-US Chief Data Officer within the Office of the CIO and plays a critical role in developing enterprise data architecture capabilities and standards for strategic, cross-business and enabling area programs. In this role you will collaborate closely with business and product engineering teams to incubate new innovative data capabilities, and help drive the widespread adoption of our shared data capabilities throughout the organization. You will also be responsible for providing expert guidance on data architecture, defining data standards and best practices to more effectively protect and utilize Client’s's data assets.

Key responsibilities include:

Conduct in-depth interviews with enterprise and application architects to understand the current data landscape.

Document and analyze where firm data resides, including data sources, data flows, and data storage solutions.

Develop comprehensive data flow diagrams that clearly represent the movement of data across systems.

Design conceptual and logical data architectures that illustrate the structure and organization of data within the firm and enable the implementation of intended business outcomes and re-usable, enterprise data products.

Utilize architecture design software to produce high-quality, visually appealing diagrams.

Provide thought leadership and expert input on projects requiring extensive data requirements gathering, data modeling, data integration, and testing.

Collaborate with business clients, data owners, and product owners to anticipate future data architecture needs and to resolve challenging data taxonomy and data integration challenges.

Engage business and technology leaders in strategic discussions to better understand objectives that could impact data management and platform best practices, guidelines, and policies.

Communicate implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to business and technology leadership.

Provide expert knowledge of data management principles, standards, and best practices to business and technology teams.

Work directly with vendors to understand and influence overall vendor roadmap.

Work with internal technology teams to define long-term data management strategy and capability roadmaps.

Collaborate with other technology teams to define technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications. An advanced degree is also preferred.

Minimum of 10 years of in-depth experience in Data Lifecycle Management, solutions design, and delivery of enterprise level data platform solutions.

Minimum of 2 years of experience managing people/project lifecycle and delivery of mid-to-large enterprise technologies.

Experience working with business application owners and development teams to document and clarify business and user requirements and manage scope of defined data requirements during project lifecycle.

Proficiency in architecture design software such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, Erwin Data Modeler, or similar tools, as well as strong PowerPoint skills.

Technical experience in modern data platform concepts like lakehouse architecture, delta lake, data fabric, AI/ML.

Experience designing conceptual and logical data models that enable the implementation of intended business outcomes and re-usable, enterprise data products.

Strong analytical abilities, presentation skills, and organizational/planning abilities.

Ability to adjust communications to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience working directly with clients and providing consultation.

Preferred:

Strong knowledge of Cloud Hyperscalers Infrastructure/Services

Strong knowledge in Machine learning and AI

Strong experience in big data technologies like Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Delta Lake, Snowflake, etc.

Strong experience in Relational and NoSQL databases (SQL Server / CosmosDB / MongoDB etc.)

Experience in implementing quality guidelines, standards, and procedures.

Experience implementing and automating models created by data science teams (i.e., Spark, Scala, Hive, Python, R, etc.)

Experience with data integration tools like Informatica, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, etc.

Experience with visualizations tools like Tableau, PowerBI, QlikSense, etc.

Ability to understand and relate to business objectives and as a result provide a high-quality automated solution.

Ability to drive teams to meet consensus and have vivid passion for applications delivery.

Strong project management and team management skills.

Creative - able to think outside the box; uses knowledge gained through prior experience, education, and training to resolve issues and remove project barriers.

Drive for results - maintains constant awareness of projects and clients; keeps product owners focused on short- and long-term milestones.

Experience interfacing with external software design and development vendors preferred.

Ability to travel minimally required, up to 10%.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with LTIMindtree (“LTIM”):

Benefits and Perks:

Comprehensive Medical Plan Covering Medical, Dental, Vision

Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage

401(k) Plan with Company match

Life Insurance

Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays

Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave

The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum salary target for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and job level and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Depending on the position offered, other forms of compensation may be provided as part of overall compensation like an annual performance-based bonus, sales incentive pay and other forms of bonus or variable compensation.

Disclaimer: The compensation and benefits information provided herein is accurate as of the date of this posting.

LTIMindtree is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity in the workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, family-care status, veteran status, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, military service, handicap or disability or history of handicap or disability, genetic information, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, union affiliation, affectional or sexual orientation or preference, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, except where such considerations are bona fide occupational qualifications permitted by law.

Safe return to office:

In order to comply with LTIMindtree’ s company COVID-19 vaccine mandate, candidates must be able to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 before or by the date of hire. Alternatively, one may submit a request for reasonable accommodation from LTIMindtree’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for approval, in accordance with applicable state and federal law, by the date of hire. Any request is subject to review through LTIMindtree’s applicable processes.