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Job Title: Data Architect
Location: Remote-Arlington, VA
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The Department of Technology Services seeks a Data Architect to work in the Application Development and Data Management team. Responsibilities of the team include building ETL scripts to support County data warehouse and performing data management tasks to enable data sharing for external and internal use.
The employee will serve as a key interface between the DTS and other departments and must have demonstrated the ability to communicate and discuss business issues with technical and non-technical audiences at all organizational levels. The Data Architect will work closely with the technical manager and key stakeholders to implement data strategies and promote data management best practices for use across the organization.
Essential Duties:
- Develop database solutions to securely store and retrieve County information utilizing the County’s Amazon Web Services, (AWS) data warehouse and data lake architecture
- Rewrite SSIS packages to a modern framework using Docker, Node, Python, dbt
- Analyze existing package to plan and develop roadmap for code conversion
- Perform data testing and data quality checks
- Analyze and recommend performance improvements to Redshift Datawarehouse
- Extend and apply security for data warehouse usage
Desirable skills:
- Proven work experience as a Data Architect, Data Scientist, Data Analyst or similar role
- In-depth understanding of database structure principles
- Experience gathering and analyzing system requirements
- Knowledge of data mining and segmentation techniques
- Prior experience working in a software development team/environment
- Experience in SQL Server and SSIS
- Experience in cloud technologies, specifically AWS suite of services; specifically – Redshift
- Experience writing code in Node, Python
- Experience in DBT
- Proven analytical skills
- Self-starter with problem-solving skills
About Us:
At Radiant Digital, we provide IT solutions and consulting services to help government agencies and businesses in the USA, Canada, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. On the federal side, we support agencies like NASA, the Department of State (DOS), the IRS, ACL, ACF,USDA and many others, along with numerous state and local government agencies.
We work with industries like telecom, healthcare, entertainment, oil and gas offering solutions designed to meet their specific needs. We focus on improving systems, making better use of data, and updating applications to keep up with changing markets.