Summary 

The Systems Engineer will design data model solutions and ensure alignment between business and IT strategies, operating models, guiding principles, and software development with a focus on the information layer. The Systems Engineer works across business lines and IT domains to ensure that information is viewed as a corporate asset. This includes its proper data definition, creation, usage, archival, and governance. The Systems Engineer works with other engineers and Data Architects to design overall solutions in accordance with industry best practices, principles and standards. The Systems Engineer strives to create and improve the quality of systems, provide more flexible solutions, and reduce time-to-market. 

Job responsibilities include: 

• Enhance and maintain the AutoZone information strategy 
• Ensure alignment of programs and projects with the strategic AZ Information Roadmap and related strategies 
• Perform gap analysis between current data structures and target data structures 
• Enhance and maintain the Enterprise Information Model 
• Work with service architects and application architects to assist with the creation of proper data access and utilization methods 
• Gather complex business requirements and translate product and project needs into data models supporting long-term solutions 
• Serve as a technical data strategy expert and lead the creation of technical requirements and design deliverables 
• Define and communicate data standards, industry best practices, technologies, and architectures 
• Check conformance to standards and resolve any conflicts by explaining and justifying architectural decisions 
• Recommend and evaluate new tools and methodologies as needed 
• Manage, communicate, and improve the data governance framework 

Experience: 

• Minimum of 4 years of data modeling, data architecture or related experience preferred 
• Experience and proficiency in enterprise data modeling for large, high-volume systems
• Ability to lead sessions with stakeholders to determine data rules and review data models 
• Extensive architecture and design experience with complex applications, preferably in the retail industry, for relational and non-relational databases 
• Experience working with API Management and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) 
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced members of an engineering team 

Position Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science or similar degree or experience required 
• Experience and knowledge of database systems such as Oracle, Postgres, UDB/DB2, BigQuery, Spanner, JSON, and Couchbase
• Relational & NoSQL database design capability across OLTP & OLAP
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Ability to facilitate modeling sessions and communicate appropriately with IT and business customers 
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Experience with large-replicated databases across distributed and cloud data centers