IT Data Architect BI- Ulta Beauty
Company: Ulta Beauty
Location: Bolingbrook
Posted on: January 18, 2023
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: The Architect is a highly
skilled technical resource who is an innovative thinker and is able
to envision how technology can be leveraged to solve complex
business problems. The BI Architect serves in a leadership position
responsible for ensuring the organizations business intelligence
tool sets and strategy is equipped to meet self-service reporting
requirements. This individual will work closely with cross
functional business and IT teams in a highly collaborative
environment to develop well-designed BI solutions YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH
ALL THIS BY:
- System Software: Evaluate new system software, review system
software updates, plan the installation and testing of new versions
of system software, troubleshoot software problems and advise on
the correct and effective use of system software.
- Systems Design: Support the system design within the functional
area and on programs/projects and ensure adherence to relevant
technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including
security).
- Solution Architecture: Contribute to the development of
architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with
specified requirements agreed with both external and internal
customers while balancing between functional, service quality and
systems management needs. Ensure that appropriate standards
(corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered
to.
- Information Management: Ensure that the business processes and
information required to support the organization are defined and
devise appropriate standards, processes and data architectures.
Evaluate the impact of any relevant statutory, internal or external
regulations on the organization's use of information and develop
strategies for compliance.
- Innovation/Research: Monitor and seek opportunities, new
methods, trends, capabilities and products to the advancement of
the organization.
- IT Governance: Support the work of the governing
authority/board, lead the review of management processes (and
decisions) for compliance with the organization's strategy for
corporate governance of information and develop architecture
policies and standards.
- IT Strategy & Planning: Contribute to the policies, standards
and guidelines for how the organization conducts IT strategy
development and planning, and lead the creation or review of an IT
strategy which meets the requirements of the business.
- Relationship Management: Develop long-term, strategic
relationships with senior stakeholders, maintain a strong
understanding of industry and business and act as a subject matter
expert on technology.
- Define and steward the Enterprise Data Lifecycle Management
including data quality, data conversion, and data security for BI
solutions.
- Contribute to multi-year vision to drive the maturity of
enterprise data BI assets
- Coordinate with Data Lead and analysts to understand business
and reporting requirements to translate these needs into efficient
data models (logical and physical), and lead the development of
Integration, extraction, and transformation processes between data
warehouse and the BI semantic layer
- Develop, implement, and maintain Power BI data workspace design
related to subject areas covering Retail Sales/Planning, Supply
Chain, Customer Analytics, Finance, Merchandise Planning, ect, to
share and disseminate data throughout the enterprise
- Pro-active monitoring & reporting on system performance KPI s
providing visibility into resource utilization of different
workloads such as ETL & BI tools
- Providing technical and architectural guidance to project and
support teams and ensuring that there is a holistic strategic BI
architecture to support the business
- Provide specific recommendations and architectures for Power BI
enabled functional solutions
- Proactively monitor strategic direction of Power BI partner
Vendors, technology and market trends, and determine their
potential impact and value to the enterprise
- Proactively monitor strategic capabilities that compliment BI
solutions including Tableau, Power BI, and other BI solutions
- This role requires participation in Architecture Review Board,
to provide BI architectural insights and coverage to ensure proper
assessment of other technologies impact to BI solutions.
- Works with functional leadership to provide guidance and
recommendation in the early planning stages around the different
solution patterns that may be appropriate for this specific
solution
- Design and Develop BI Architecture, Conceptual Approach, Data
Model, Integration with other Application platforms
- Develop specifications and standards for semantic layers for BI
tools.
- Build a security architecture and partner with the data
security team to ensure compliance of policies
- Set standards and best practices together with other
architects
- Ensuring quality of the content of BI Business Solutions
- Building logical data modelling of BI Business Solutions
- Creating and gaining agreement to BI strategies
- Support the development of data architecture principles,
standards and processes for the organization and applies these to
deliverables
- Partners with developers, DBAs and data architects to ensure
data models can be deployed and maintained efficiently and accessed
by consumers of the data effectively ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, CIS, or applicable work
experience.
- 10+ years of experience in design and development of data
lakes, data warehouses and BI platforms
- 5+ years of BI Architecture experience
- Strong experience in design, development and operationalization
of large-scale enterprise data solutions on-prem and cloud.
- Experience with Power BI and Tableau is required
- GCP experience using tools such as Big Query, GCS, Dataflow,
Dataproc, Pub/Sub preferred but open to consider AWS or Azure.
- Proven success delivering end to end BI Analytic Solutions
spanning all aspects of solution delivery, requirements, estimates,
designs, approach, dev/build/test, monitoring, transition to
production
- Ability to engage business stakeholders to establish, define
and maintain solution road maps for legacy systems ensuring they
align with strategic and tactical business needs
- Experience in Data architecture, data models, and cloud-based
infrastructure for data platforms.
- Expertise in data centric security architecture concepts and
open standards
- Excellent analysis/troubleshooting skills, able to solve
problems efficiently
- Excellent communication skills; feels comfortable working with
non-technical business partners
- Able to motivate others to drive desired results
- Strong experience in establishing business processes
- Demonstrated ability to present recommendations to senior
leaders for effective decision making
- Work with production support and project consultants in an
onshore / offshore model
- Proven track record of delivering high quality solutions on
time and on schedule
- Flexibility of providing support during odd hours, weekends,
and peak seasons
- Minimal travel required (training/conferences)
- Understanding of retail industry business and IT processes and
systems is beneficial.
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 Act. Associated
topics: data, developer, digital designer, digital marketing,
ecommerce, front end, information technology, site, technology,
website
Keywords: Ulta Beauty, Bolingbrook , IT Data Architect BI- Ulta Beauty, Other , Bolingbrook, Illinois
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