Principal Data Architect

The Principal Data Architect is pivotal in designing and managing the enterprise data architecture to align with business goals and technology strategies. This role involves developing and executing data strategies, ensuring scalable and innovative solutions, and establishing robust governance frameworks. By standardizing data processes and promoting best practices, the Principal Data Architect ensures data integrity, security, and usability across the organization. Additionally, they act as a strategic advisor on emerging trends and technologies to maintain the organization's competitive edge. Welcome to Lyondellbasell...

This is Lyondellbasell

As a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. Through advanced technology and focused investments, we are enabling a circular and low carbon economy. Across all we do, we aim to unlock value for our customers, investors and society. As one of the world’s largest producers of polymers and a leader in polyolefin technologies, we develop, manufacture and market high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. For more information, please visit www.lyondellbasell.com or follow @LyondellBasell on LinkedIn.

This is the role

The Principal Data Architect is responsible for designing and managing the enterprise data architecture, ensuring its alignment with business goals and technology strategies.  This role plays a critical leadership role in shaping and governing the organization's data ecosystem. This position is responsible for developing and executing enterprise data strategies, ensuring the architecture supports scalable and innovative solutions. The role encompasses establishing robust governance frameworks, improving data quality, and aligning data initiatives with business goals and technology strategies. By driving the standardization of data processes and promoting best practices, the Principal Data Architect ensures the integrity, security, and usability of data across the organization. Additionally, this role acts as a strategic advisor on emerging trends and technologies to ensure the organization stays ahead in leveraging data as a competitive asset.
 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:
 

• Working knowledge of Data Architecture principles, methods, and tools; understanding of data management;
• Ability to understand how the data relates to the current operations and the effects that any future process changes will have on the use of data in the organization;
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements;
• Ability to maximize the data resources by reducing redundancy, enabling accessibility within security boundaries, fostering corporate understanding of the meaning of the data (metadata management);
• Understand the relationships across the business process and data flows;
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and data stewards to assess current pain points and areas for improvement;
• Must be able to understand and communicate the data requirements of any future infrastructure needs;
• Experience in data integration and data conversions;
• Excellent skills in data management, data modeling, data services, reporting, and analytics as well as the tools used to support these areas;
• In-depth knowledge of and proven cloud experience with data management and business intelligence stack;
• Working knowledge of master data management and data governance;
• Experience leading, guiding and contributing to Informatica MDM/Talend MDM/SAP MDG efforts around governance, blueprinting and implementations;
• Contributed to establishing Informatica MDM/Talend MDM/SAP MDG (Master Data Governance) Business value with demonstrable ROI and architecture roadmaps for clients;
• End-to-end data architectural accountability for defining and refining enterprise architecture for data warehousing and business intelligence solutions;
• Understanding how data is, or will be, used and implication on people, processes, products, and technology;
• Define and develop a data migration or bridging strategy for existing systems that need to migrate to a next generation application software platform;
• Translates strategic requirements into a usable enterprise information architecture, which may include an enterprise data model, associated metadata, common business vocabulary, ontologies and taxonomies to be used to guide enterprise solution development and achieve consistency of information assets across the application portfolio;
• Define data standards/reference architectures for use by project teams in developing technical designs and work closely with business units to establish and validate data design requirements;
• Evaluate, propose and run/govern the proof of concepts for new technologies which could result in differentiating capabilities for the business.

This is who you are

To be successful in this role you recognize yourself in the following profile:
You should excel in collaboration, innovation, and driving results while maintaining trust and integrity. A self-driven individual, capable of working independently, and able to deliver through others when needed. Strong teamwork and interpersonal communication skills are essential for working effectively in large enterprise systems. The candidate should also have the ability to document and present complex technical subjects to project leadership and business stakeholders. Additionally, they should possess strong technical knowledge, continuously research new technologies, and demonstrate proactive problem-solving capabilities.
Candidates will be assessed on the following LYB competencies:
•    Build Partnerships
•    Deliver Results
•    Drive Innovation
•    Grow Capabilities
•    Promote Inclusion

This is what you bring

This is a Principal Data architect position requiring either a degreed professional who possesses a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business or Engineering with a minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant experience. This individual must demonstrate strong technical SAP security expertise and knowledge in each of the following technology disciplines:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher;
• Minimum of 9 plus years of experience in creating logical and physical data models; demonstrated experience with relational and star schema data Modelling;
• Minimum of 3 plus years of experience with BI implementation and architecture;
• Experience with big data, semi-structured data;
• Experience with BI tools and visual reporting platforms from an architecture standpoint;
• Experience in development of reporting and analytics business capabilities, strategy and roadmap;
• Demonstrated competency in accurately identifying the scope of work and preparing thorough, accurate and detailed schedule estimates;
• Experience in migrating from on-premise enterprise data warehouse to cloud-based;
• Experience with/involvement in creating and implementing data governance;
• Familiarity working with one major cloud based data and analytics platform implementation - AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

This is what we offer

We offer an environment where we encourage personal and professional growth and where you will be rewarded for your performance and results. You will have the possibility to work with specialist on all fields to develop innovative solutions and to extend your national and international network. In addition, we offer you a competitive salary package. The Company's Global Remote Work Policy allows eligible employees the option to work up to three days a week from home. LyondellBasell is committed to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) to ensure a positive experience for all employees.

Interested?

Please feel free to contact our Talent Acquisition Consultant at james.smeets @ lyondellbasell.com for more details. 

Would you like to apply? Just send us your motivation and resume via the application button. The recruitment process starts with an initial phone screening followed by two/three business interviews before proceeding to a possible job offer and a background check will be part of the process.

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