Staff Data Architect - Energy Consulting group : Job Details

This position is responsible for building, managing, and supporting our fleet of AWS Redshift data warehouse environments. This role designs, implements, and optimizes data architectures and cluster topologies that enable and support a variety of data warehousing, analytics, and reporting workloads.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leverage expertise in Amazon Redshift to design, deploy, and maintain our fleet of clusters, tuning environments to optimize query performance, manage resources effectively, 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 related 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 cloud costs across the Data Warehouse.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM majors 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 at least 3 years experience on AWS or equivalent cloud technologies.

Eligibility Requirement:

• 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.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience with provisioning, managing AWS Redshift or other cloud-native data warehouse solutions.
• Experience with MPP data architecture and performance optimizations.
• 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 designing and implementing security policies in AWS (IAM, resource policies, roles).
• Familiarity with support of workloads from data visualization platforms.
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, Solutions Architect).
• Knowledge of ITIL service management practices.

• Adept at navigating organizational structures, understanding roles, foreseeing obstacles, and rallying resources.
• Understanding business models and facilitating active customer engagement.
• Ability to articulate the value of initiatives to achieve outcomes.
• Proficiency in presenting functional information for cross-functional teams using storytelling.
• Extensive knowledge of solution catalog within a business unit and proficiency in discussing areas at an advanced level.
• Ability to leverage data for forecasting cluster needs and costs.

• Working knowledge of internal organization, ability to foresee obstacles, and rally teams.
• Deliver tasks on time aligned with architectural goals, identify issues and risks.
• Experience working with and leading blended teams, including third-party partners.
• Change management capabilities.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and influence skills.
• Proven problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to influence and build consensus across IT teams and leadership.
• Passion for problem-solving and continuous improvement.
• Ability to thrive in a highly matrixed environment.

To comply with US immigration and legal requirements, minimum years of experience are specified for roles within the USA. For roles outside the USA, focus on the substantive experience level without a minimum years requirement.

This job description provides a high-level overview and does not restrict or expand duties beyond the employment contract or agreements with the manager.

Compensation Grade: LPB1

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Final offers depend on obtaining authorization from the U.S. Government for non-U.S. Persons.

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive pay. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

We will only employ those legally authorized to work in the U.S. for this opening.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No