Senior Data Architect at Bose Corporation in Framingham, Massachusetts

Job Description:

You know the moment. It's the first notes of that song you love, the intro to your favorite movie, or simply the sound of someone you love saying "hello." It's in these moments that sound matters most.

At Bose, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth. We've dedicated ourselves to improving it for nearly 60 years. And we're passionate down to our bones about making whatever you're listening to a little more magical.

The Corporate Strategy team at Bose works on some of the company's most important business and growth initiatives. We work closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams across the company to analyze market opportunities, create winning strategies, and inform important decisions with insightful, data-driven recommendations based on a deep knowledge of the business, customers, and external market factors.

Job Description

Bose is about better sound, but better sound is just the beginning. We're about inventing new technologies that truly benefit people and crafting a culture where innovation and teamwork are highly valued. Working at Bose, you're encouraged to question conventional thinking in the relentless quest to build products and experiences that change people's lives. Good data and data-driven decision making are crucial to this mission, helping to fuel the creation of new and innovative products, bring the right products to the right customers, and enable us to astonish customers with carefully crafted and personalized experiences.

We are looking for a Senior Data Architect within the Data and Analytics Center of Excellence. This role will work cross-functionally to build data products that enable analytics and data science teams across the company to create new insights. A key focus area will be leading the development of data models that enable software and product teams to optimize our customer experience. The role will embed themselves in all aspects of data design and modeling, working backwards from analytics needs to guide software engineers and data analysts such that the best decisions are being made at every turn.

Candidates should have a broad experience with multiple data management disciplines and the ability to step into different roles depending on the phase, scope and technologies of project. The role will work with software engineers, cloud engineers, solution architects, application developers, data analysts, data scientists, and others to craft and implement data products that drive insights for the entire company. The role needs to be 'hands-on', validating and testing the data to ensure that it is able to deliver the insights we expect. If you have a passion for creating a data-driven culture, join us at Bose and help shape the future of one of the most iconic brands in the world!

Responsibilities

• Work with Product and Engineering teams to translate analytics requests into data product requirements, and then work with software engineering and analytics teams to deliver those products.


• Plan, structure, and oversee data design review sessions. Take accountability for ensuring all key design and compliance decisions are reviewed and approved before implementation.


• Analyze current state of data architecture of various systems across the enterprise - software components, technologies, data models and business processes; identify opportunities to drive better or faster insights, more reliability, and lower costs.


• Propose and enforce data management best practices, data standards, data management policies and rules across different functions of the company


• Generate data management artifacts, like data models diagrams, ETL/ELT source-to-target mapping, data dictionaries, data flow diagrams, data quality definitions and tests, and data contracts.


• Partner with Legal, Information Security and HR to ensure compliance and security of data including developing solutions around masking, encrypting, and/or pseudonymizing.


• Lead vendors evaluation and recommend new and emerging technologies in the areas of data engineering, data quality, and analytics.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical domain (MS preferred).


• Candidate should have a minimum of 10+ years of overall enterprise technology, data, and analytics experience, with a track record of delivering data products that drive substantial business insights and direct value.


• Extremely strong SQL skills.


• Direct experience designing production level data architectures, pipelines, and products within a cross functional Data Mesh operating model.


• Experience with data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical) and understanding of ETL/ELT processes design and infrastructure administration.


• Proficient with modern data platforms such as AWS, Snowflake, dbt, and Collibra, or similar technologies.


• Proven experience of cross functional leadership in sophisticated organizations with strong emphasis on influencing and teamwork.


• The ideal candidate has experience with microservices, event based architecture, data streaming (Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis), IoT telemetry data, mobile application data collection and analytics


• Strong in gaining knowledge of new technologies across data management disciplines and conduct proof of concepts of well-established and innovative enterprise software tools.


• Excellent interpersonal skills, accountability, written and verbal communication skills, time management are key competencies to this position.


• Ability to analyze sophisticated data and ability to communicate data management concepts to technical and non-technical staff, to work independently with minimal direction including the organization and prioritization of tasks to meet deadlines and department goals.

Bose is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. For additional information, please review: (1) the EEO is the Law Poster (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf); and (2) its Supplements (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm). Please note, the company's pay transparency is available at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/EO13665_PrescribedNondiscriminationPostingLanguage_JRFQA508c.pdf. Bose is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application or employment process, please send an e-mail to Wellbeing@bose.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Our goal is to create an atmosphere where every candidate feels supported and empowered in the interviewing process. Diversity and inclusion are integral to our success, and we believe that providing reasonable accommodation is not only a legal obligation but also a fundamental aspect of our commitment to being an employer of choice. We recognize that individuals may have different needs and requirements based on their abilities, and we provide reasonable accommodations to ensure ideal conditions are met during the application process.

If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please send a note to wellbeing@bose.com