
Senior Data Architect
Informa
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AzureETLPySparkPythonScalaSQLUnity
About the role
- Serve as a technical data architect supporting the next generation reporting platform, enabling insights for Finance, Commercial, Product, and Client Success teams
- Support the development and implementation of a data strategy that enables current and future data processing, analytics, and reporting requirements in alignment with the overall data strategy and priorities
- Maintain and enhance the scalable data warehouse architecture
- Ensure robust version control, deployment pipelines, and observability across environments, supporting continuous improvement and governance
- Maintain and build new ETL pipelines bringing data from Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot, Pendo, ADP and Adaptive Planning, ensuring clean, enriched, and joined datasets for analytics
- Manage BI or reporting functions with internal and external reporting outputs. Deliver company-wide dashboards using Power BI (including Embedded)
- Prioritize high-volume reporting backlogs across multiple business functions
- Collaborate with Finance, Operations, HR and Sales to deliver reporting such as automated revenue and ARR bridges, pricing analysis, P&L reporting, client product usage reporting and headcount reporting in Power BI
- Support key data initiatives including ARR bridge, Client Intimacy metrics, Pricing Governance, Customer Health Scoring, Funnel Velocity, and Marketing Attribution
- Design KPI frameworks and reporting structures in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Lead QA reviews of reporting assets to ensure accuracy, accessibility, and usability
- Champion and drive data quality and enrichment across Salesforce and other systems, implementing dashboards and tagging logic to support commercial actions.
- Educate and guide Power BI dashboard creators across the business to adopt self-service dashboard creation, promoting best practices and scalable design standards
- Train users on reporting tools and implement self-service enablement programs.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define reporting requirements, validate outputs, and embed dashboards into operational cycles
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of experience designing and managing scalable data architectures
- Demonstrate hands-on experience with Databricks and Delta Lake, including ACID transactions, schema evolution, time travel, and audit logging
- Show strong proficiency in SQL (T-SQL, ANSI SQL), and Python, PySpark, and Scala for data engineering within Databricks notebooks
- Familiar with Unity Catalog for metadata management, data cataloguing, role-based access control, data lineage, and quality monitoring
- Experience using Fivetran or similar tools for building reliable, low-maintenance data ingestion pipelines
- Experience integrating and transforming data from Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot, Pendo, ADP, Adaptive Planning, and other SaaS platforms
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of data governance, including version control (e.g., Git/Azure Repos), CI/CD pipelines, and observability practices
- Manage the full report development lifecycle from brief through to release and adoption
- Can demonstrate hands-on experience with Power BI, including dashboard development, parameterization, performance optimization, and administration (permissions, server maintenance, upgrades, patching, monitoring etc.).
- Comfortable building and optimizing fact and dimension models, including STAR schemas and SCD-2 logic, to support consistent and high-performance reporting
- Use the Power BI platform (including DAX, Dataflows, Embedded publishing)
- Ability to apply visualization best practices and data storytelling techniques.
- Ability to apply business-aligned KPI design and definition governance
- Ability to apply transformation logic, data model validation, and documentation
- Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
- Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement data models that support business use cases and enable self-service analytics
- Build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Demonstrate excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with a consulting mindset and the ability to translate business needs into scalable data solutions
- Learn actively through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
- Consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; an advanced degree or relevant certifications are a plus
Benefits
- Competitive benefits, including a range of Financial, Health and Lifestyle benefits to choose from
- Flexible working options, including home working, flexible hours and part time options, depending on the role requirements – please ask!
- Competitive annual leave, floating holidays, volunteering days and a day off for your birthday!
- Learning and development tools to assist with your career development
- Work with industry leading Subject Matter Experts and specialist products
- Regular social events and networking opportunities
- Collaborative, supportive culture, including an active DE&I program
- Employee Assistance Program which provides expert third-party advice on wellbeing, relationships, legal and financial matters, as well as access to counselling services
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data architectureETL pipelinesSQLPythonPySparkScalaPower BIDatabricksDelta Lakedata governance
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingtrainingprioritizationrelationship buildingconsulting mindsetadaptabilityresults-oriented
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineeringadvanced degreerelevant certifications