Data Architect

Company: Lucas James Talent Partners
Location: Bolingbrook
Posted on: January 8, 2022

Job Description:

OVERVIEW
Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability-and is recognized that way. We've been defined as a "mature start-up." A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We're engineering for the future of retail, and it's no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you'll find that virtually nothing's impossible at Ulta Beauty.

THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:
ULTA Beauty Information Technology is looking for an experienced Data Architect to join the Enterprise Data & Analytics team. This enterprise data champion must be an innovative thinker and will work closely with business and IT teams to understand capability needs and define strategies to enable market differentiation for Ulta. The Data Architect should be comfortable working in a highly collaborative, dynamic, and fast paced environment with minimal direction and should have the ability to influence thought processes across various levels in the organization. Assignments may vary from well-defined, long term initiatives to ad-hoc work requests that are critical to business success.

YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH ALL THIS BY:
The Data Architect defines, architect, and implement key architectural components of the enterprise data lake ecosystem supporting enterprise-wide analytics, AI/ML and Business Intelligence. These include the enterprise data platform on Google cloud, data pipelines, data governance, data catalog, and the data quality.
Design conceptual, logical and physical data models, within a complete functional and technical architecture.
Partners with other architects from the cloud, infrastructure, security and other domain experts to define data platform technical strategy, roadmap and architecture.
Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions.
Assess data platform implementation procedures to ensure they comply with internal and external regulations.
Performing third-party vendor assessments and developing/leading proof-of-concept initiatives
Staying current with industry trends, vendor product offerings and emerging data solutions in use across the industry; continuously learning new data technologies

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Coordinating with other team members to reach project milestones and deadlines
Identifying areas for improvement in current systems

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or applicable work experience.
12+ years of overall experience in information technology including architecture, design and development.
5+ years of demonstrated experience in architecting and delivering enterprise data solutions on-prem and cloud
Expertise in data models, data pipelines, devops and cloud-based infrastructure disciplines such as Kubernetes, containerization, etc.
Expertise in data centric security architecture concepts and open standards
Hybrid Cloud-based data architecture, data ingestion, curation and self-service reporting frameworks
Expertise with event-based sourcing and event streaming, specifically with technologies like Kafka, Spark and GCP Pub/Sub.
Solid understanding of retail industry business and IT processes and systems.
Experience in designing, building and operationalizing large-scale enterprise data
solutions and applications within GCP using tools such as Data Proc, Big Query, Big Table, Pub/Sub etc.
Expertise in architecting and developing data warehouse solutions, for enterprise reporting and analytics applications
Experience with Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Enterprise Data Catalogs, a huge plus
Experience with data integration tools Talend, SAP Data Services, Informatica or similar
Knowledge of Data Science tools such as GCP AI Platform, Dataiku, etc., a plus
Experience in designing and building production data pipelines from ingestion to consumption within GCP
Knowledge of reporting and analytic tools such as Power BI and Tableau
Ability to multi-task and adapt quickly to change.
Possess a strong work ethic; takes pride in producing a quality product.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent decision making and leadership skills.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to establish and manage effective working relationships in a matrixed organizational structure
Strong communication and executive presentation skills; ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences
Ability to influence the organization to "get things done".
Effective negotiation skills.
Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.
Minimal travel required (training/conferences).
Experience with SAP BW, HANA is a plus.

ABOUT
At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful . Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty's own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring-hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance

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