What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Data Architect position at Qualys?
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Key Responsibilities
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Key Responsibilities
- Architecture:
- Design and lead the development of a scalable, reliable, compliant and secure data architecture that spans enterprise applications, analytics, reporting needs and guarantees real-time delivery of accurate data
- Define standards and best practices for data modeling, governance, integrations and managing data lifecycle
- Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to ensure alignment with business requirements
- Define reusable data integration patterns, data flows, and pipelines across systems, applications, and platforms
- Strategy and Leadership:
- Partner with enterprise applications delivery teams and enterprise architecture to ensure our solutions keep data consistent, accurate, and secure
- Collaborate on the implementation of cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Big Query) and support the enterprise wide roll out
- Governance:
- Monitor and optimize database performance, scalability, and storage strategies.
- Work with security operations org to ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, PCI).
- Establish governance frameworks ensuring data quality, privacy, lineage, and compliance across all sources.
- Implement robust data security practices, including RBAC, encryption, and access auditing
- AI and emerging tech:
- Infuse AI into the data landscape by setting direction and giving guidance on the development of ML models and other AI based capabilities
- Enable data democratization and advanced insights through curated datasets, semantic layers, and analytical products
- 15 years of hands-on experience in the world of data architecture, data warehouses, enterprise-wide analytics, data democratization
- Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra), data security, and privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA)
- Proficiency and prior hands-on experience in cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query)
- Strong understanding of APIs, data contracts, and platform-as-a-product concepts.
- Proven expertise in data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), data governance, master data management (MDM), data lineage and metadata management.
- Proven experience in implementing data lakes and data ingestion technologies
- Prior with BI/reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker etc.,)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills to work with both technical and business teams.
- Ability to translate complex technical details into business-friendly terms.
- Self-starter with the ability to lead cross-functional data initiatives.
- AWS Certified Data Analytics or Solutions Architect
- Google Professional Data Engineer
- Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate
- DAMA Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
Salary : $150,000 - $195,000
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