Company DescriptionCypress Global Services (CGS) is a growing Information Technology (IT) Services firm based in North Houston, TX. Specializing in IT Consulting and Staffing Solutions, CGS provides our clients with industry-leading IT Specialists nationwide for all types of placements, i.e. Temp, Contract, and Full-time. Job DescriptionEnsuring that data flows seamlesslyOwnership of defining, documenting, and operating overall data strategy, including schema definitions, system contracts, security, compliance, and SLAsEvangelize data strategy among stakeholders such as business users and various data teams through design, documentation, review, and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goalsBuild and lead a cross cutting team responsible for operational excellence of data platform including change management process, SDLC and CICDOwn and implement technical roadmap for continuous improvement of data platform, including tech stack upgrade, cost optimization and compliance requirementsOwn and operate automated operational test cases for performance, security, and reliability of data platformResponsible for growing and inspiring a team of engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career developmentCultivate a healthy, collaborative technology culture that is in line with company values QualificationsExperience & Expertise with concepts like Data Mess, Lake house, Data orchestration, ETL/ELT, Cloud Data warehousingExperience with ingesting, transforming and curating structure and unstructured data setExperience with building analytic solutions applicable to Sales, Finance, Product, Operations, and Marketing organizations in an enterpriseExperience implementing operational best practices such as monitoring, alerting, metadata management, data cataloging and data modelingExperience managing, measuring, improving data quality in an OLAP/OLTPCommunication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insightsExperience working in agile development environmentExperience working with cloud providers, both on the IAAS side (Azure), and in the data and analytics space (Snowflake, etc)Experience in working in large teams using CI/CD and agile methodologiesMinimum of 12 years of experience in IT, majority in information system designMinimum of 5 years as a Data Architect with progressively increasing responsibilityBachelor's Degree Computer and Information Science Bachelor’s in computer science RequiredCandidates must be legally authorized to work in the US (no Visa sponsorship) to be considered Additional InformationThis is a full-time role with our client. The candidate has to be in Atlanta, GA or willing to relocate. Client will not sponsor work-visa. Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the US. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.