Staff Data Architect
| Company | GE Aerospace |
|---|---|
| Location | Sharonville, OH, USA, Livonia, MI, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or ‘STEM’ Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with a minimum of 6 years of experience in cloud & database storage technologies such as AWS RedShift
- Minimum 4 years experience with database technology and minimum 3 years of experience on AWS or equivalent cloud technologies
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
Responsibilities
- Leverage expertise in Amazon Redshift to design, deploy, and maintain our fleet of clusters, tuning the environments to optimize query performance, effectively manage resources, and implement best practices for data storage, retrieval, and processing.
- Manage data access policies and practices for our AWS Redshift Fleet, ensuring compliance with regulations like CMMC, DFARS, ITAR, NIST 800-171).
- Monitor and optimize the performance of the data platform, including tuning Redshift queries, implementing best practices for data partitioning, compression, and caching, and utilizing tools like Amazon Redshift Advisor.
- Document data architectures, data flows, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency and facilitate knowledge sharing across teams.
- Configure monitoring and logging systems to track platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and respond to incidents promptly.
- Anticipate, track and advise management on risks and opportunities pertaining to trade-offs between performance and cost.
- Stay abreast of the latest technologies, architecture trends, and management best practices pertaining to analytical data storage.
- Assist with monitoring, tracking and forecasting of cloud costs across the Data Warehouse.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with provisioning, managing AWS Redshift or other cloud-native data warehouse-like solutions
- Experience with MPP data architecture and performance optimizations
- Experience / Familiarity with other AWS data services such as S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, and DynamoDB
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
- Experience with designing and implementing security policies in AWS (IAM, resource policies, roles)
- Familiarity with the operation and support of workloads from data visualization platforms
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, AWS Certified Solutions Architect)
- Familiarity with ITIL service management practices, including Incident Management, Change management, Problem management, availability management
- Adept at navigating the organizational matrix; understanding people’s roles, can foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources and rally teammates
- Understand how internal and/or external business model works and facilitate active customer engagement
- Able to articulate the value of what is most important to the business/customer to achieve outcomes
- Able to produce functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize, using presentation and storytelling concepts
- Possess extensive knowledge of full solution catalog within a business unit and proficiency in discussing each area at an advanced level
- Ability to leverage historical & current data to build forecasts on cluster needs and cost; ability to build & update the logic required for assessing out cost to our partners
- Demonstrated working knowledge of internal organization
- Foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources, rally teammates
- Delivers tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals. Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits. High say do ratio
- Demonstrated ability to work with and/or lead blended teams, including 3rd party partners and customer personnel
- Demonstrated Change Management /Acceleration capabilities
- Strong interpersonal skills, including creativity and curiosity with ability to effectively communicate and influence across all organizational levels
- Proven analytical and problem resolution skills
- Ability to influence and build consensus with other Information Technology (IT) teams and leadership
- Passionate about Problem Solving and the continuous improvement journey along the FLIGHT DECK fundamentals
- Ability to thrive is a highly matrixed environment