Data Architect

The Data Architect is responsible for designing and developing data solutions for the Data Agile Release Train (DART), ensuring alignment of solution designs with architectural standards, business requirements, budgets, and strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate within Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and DART to develop solution and technology designs, standards, and architecture runways.
• Work closely with Technology & Architecture groups to ensure proposed solutions align with technology roadmaps and business capabilities.
• Implement architectural standards using the company's Architecture Frameworks and Tools.
• Define and govern the enterprise data architecture including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Design and evolve the enterprise data platform architecture utilizing Databricks and other lakehouse technologies.
• Establish patterns for data ingestion, integration, and pipelines for batch, streaming, and event-driven data processing.
• Architect and govern Customer Data Platforms (CDP) for unifying and activating customer profiles.
• Implement data governance, quality, metadata, lineage, privacy, and secure access standards to enable trusted data products for analytics and business applications.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years in complex IT architecture environments.
• Experience in the airline industry is strongly desirable.
• Proven track record of providing architecture solutions for data warehouses, big data, business intelligence, and data science projects.
• Hands-on data modeling experience; familiarity with airline data (e.g., PNR, TKT) is a plus.
• Strong understanding of data concepts including lineage, quality, lifecycle management, reference data management, and metadata management.
• Familiarity with data security and privacy concepts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• Certification in Solution and/or Enterprise Architecture (e.g., TOGAF, SAFe Architect) is mandatory.