Lead Data Architect at Meredith Corporation in Dallas, Texas

Job Description:

Job TitleLead Data Architect

Job DescriptionCompany
For over 20 years we have connected people with their passions, products with engaged customers, and our multi-channel clients-including some of the world's largest consumer brands-with innovative marketing programs.

We believe great technology empowers organizations. At Synapse, we're using technology to reinvent subscription and consumer relationships, and building creative products that impact millions of people.
Opportunity for Impact
* If you are obsessed and excited about providing quality data to business and other teams, then this is the role for you. You want to \\"Free the Data\\"!
* You'll work with an exceptional group of data engineers on a wide array of technologies to help our data-driven teams be successful.
* This is a mature organization operating at large scale that is also in the midst of a transformation. You'll be able to have an impact throughout the organization by advocating for and implementing meaningful change.
Role and Responsibilities (What You'll Do)
* Leverage your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results - focusing on creating value, continuous improvement and collaboration
* Strive to thoroughly understand customer, business and stakeholder needs, and provide effective solutions to meet those needs
* Dive deep into tech, driving data architecture, design, security, scalability and related best practices via hands-on contributions and coaching of data engineers and application developers
* Produce data architecture best practices and guidelines for data engineering development, data modeling and data quality results
* Evangelize and consult on enterprise data architecture in order to reduce data silos and promote the efficient, effective, accurate and secure use of data throughout the organization.
* Conduct data architecture, performance, design and model reviews for data engineering and lead data governance functions
* Develops and maintains data warehouse and application data models for the organization
* Perform technical analysis and hands on support of ad-hoc requests for information from business stakeholders and other data-related issues as needed
* Research, identify and evaluate current and upcoming data management and development technologies and provide a vision for the future
* Build real and effective partnerships between your teams and others throughout the company
Professional Qualifications (What You Have)
* You have a minimum of 7 years of system design and development experience in data-related positions including enterprise data warehouse architecture, data architecture, data modeling, ETL, database administration, and data engineering development.
* You communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
* You care deeply about customer privacy, data architecture, design and quality
* You have strong analytical skills and are results-driven
* You know many of these technologies and are eager to learn the rest quickly - Oracle - PL/SQL, Data Warehouse design, ETL technologies such as Pentaho, Python, Redshift, SQL mastery
* B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience)
Personal Characteristics (Who You Are)
* Highly effective at creating collaborative relationships across an entire organization
* High energy and action-oriented with a history of getting things done in complex environments
* Results oriented, tenacious, but with the ability to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches - knowing when it matters and when it doesn't
* Both accepting of other people's ideas and confident in your own
* Values integrity, humility, creativity, open-mindedness, collaboration, creating value and continuous improvement

It is the policy of Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Meredith will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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