Do you want to work in a fast-paced and exciting environment, where no two days are the same? We’re looking for a Data Solution Architect Level I to join BCD Travel.

Data Solution Architect Level I
Fulltime, (home) based in US

We’re BCD Travel, one of the world’s leading corporate travel management companies with offices around the globe. We help our clients travel smart and achieve more. People join our company because we provide a dynamic work environment, where no two days are the same. And our people stay with us because we care about their work-life balance. But don’t just take our word for it: we've been voted top place to work and recognized by Investors In People, Flexjobs and Forbes.

The Data Solution Architect Level I is responsible for the development data solution architecture as it relates to the Data Services projects which span multiple technology stacks. This role will be responsible for understanding and translating the business problem to deliver the documented data processing architecture and design task detail to the development teams. This role will need to have a clear understanding of the business problem, data, security, metadata, design, development, and test activities necessary to deliver successfully.

This role requires data processing technology stack knowledge i.e. AWS data preparation and processing, SQL Server and data architecture/modeling background with large scale systems (i.e. Data Warehousing, Data Virtualization). In addition, this role will provide input to our development standards and fully embrace and apply our development process and data governance policies.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Administrative

• Create and groom work assignments for development in an Agile development environment
• Ability to correctly estimate task size and deliver upon committed dates
• Effective listener, who can give timely and constructive feedback.  Is willing to state opinions assertively and deals constructively with conflict situations. A problem solver as well as willing to compromise for a common effective and efficient solution
• Work as a team; cross trains, communicates effectively and efficiently in a virtual global team environment. Eager and willing to collaborate
• Develop and maintain trusted relationship with peers and key business and technology partners
• Work closely with business analysis and application owners to review project requirements and design artifacts
• Identify opportunities for improvement as well as innovate
• Keep management informed of work activities and schedules
• Jira/Atlassian updates on status and time log entries

Technical

• Validate the reference architecture and provide details for the architecture of platforms, leading and working hands-on towards implementation and delivery to production
• Provide proper architecture/design w/ detail for solving complex business problems
• Contribute to the development strategy, ensuring rapid delivery while taking responsibility for applying standards, principles, theories, and concepts
• Ensure proper/complete documentation is to BCD standard. architecture, design, naming conventions, data security, data mapping, metadata, solution details, etc
• Innovative solutions to enable business to gain access to data in a rapid manner with long term vision in mind
• Deliver high quality comprehensive solutions
• Data definitions – mapping rules, data flow diagrams, catalogs, canonical structure, etc
• Provide guidance on the technical components which are best suited to solve business problems
• Data lifecycle management
• Data Lake and Data Hub definition
• Data integration of multiple sources
• Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application, and business intelligence teams to ensure architecture and designs exceed expectations
• Closely work with development team member to review solution and integrate feedback in a collaborative / team approach
• Work with various development teams to ensure deliverables meet and/or exceed expectations for, but not limited to, requirements, performance, and compliance to standards
• Pro-actively engage team members where appropriate to discuss solutions as well as solve for technical issues and provide technical knowledge to the team
• Keep management informed of work activities and schedules
• Jira/Atlassian updates on status and time log entries
• After hours support may be required

Base Qualifications

• Technical Skills
• Hadoop/MapR; Spark/SQL, Sqoop, Hive, Drill, AWS (EMR, RDS, Cloud services) – 3+ years
• SQL Server 2016 or newer – 3+ years
• TOGAF/DMBOK – knowledge and/or experience with standards is preferred
• Data Analysis – ability to find patterns, gaps, quality issues, create data rules
• Data Modeling – 1+ years
• Demonstrate experience creating and maintaining Conceptual, Logical and Physical models
• Demonstrate experience with normalization and integration methods/techniques
• Atlassian (Jira), Wiki, Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Power Designer, Git, SQL Server
• SAFe Agile/Kanban concepts required
• Background in data and/or ETL design and lifecycle management
• Hands-on experience with multiple platforms; Apache Hadoop / AWS Lakehouse preferred
• Should have knowledge of industry standards and new development concepts
• Ability to understand data, data models and work with metadata collection tools
• Software Development Experience – 3+ Years (Unix/Linux scripting, python, SQL/TSQL)
• Database technology experience – one or more of the following:
• Demonstrate knowledge of primary data and reference data domains
• Ability to define end-to-end solutions for the entire data pipeline (build and support)
• Experience using tools such as
• Soft Skills
• Customer Service – demonstrate the ability to provide timely and accurate information to customers. Be a trusted voice with peers and business partners.
• Maintain clear and timely documentation

What we offer you
At BCD Travel, we work with highly motivated and passionate people. We value open communication, collaboration, and a flexible work-life balance. We offer unique, often global, experiences that empower you to develop and grow within the organization. Sustainability and helping others is also high on our list. We make a difference through charitable activities in our communities across the globe. 

About us
BCD Travel helps companies make the most of what they spend on travel. We give travelers innovative tools that keep them safe and productive and help them make good choices on the road. We partner with travel and procurement leaders to simplify the complexities of business travel, drive savings and satisfaction, and move whole companies toward their goals. In short, we help our clients travel smart and achieve more. We make this happen in 109 countries with a global client retention rate of 98%, the highest in the industry. For more information, visit www.bcdtravel.com. 

Interested?
Create your profile and upload your resume/cover letter via our website. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions via careers@bcdtravel.com. Note: send your application via the website only.