Enterprise Data Architect

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have at least 18 years of experience in Data engineering and Analytics and a proven track record of designing and implementing complex data solutions. As a senior principal data architect, you will be expected to design, create, deploy, and manage Blackbaud’s data architecture. This role has considerable technical influence within the Data Platform, Data Engineering teams, and the Data Intelligence Center of Excellence at Blackbaud. This individual acts as an evangelist for proper data strategy with other teams at Blackbaud and assists with the technical direction, specifically with data, of other projects.

What you'll do

• Develop and direct the strategy for all aspects of Blackbaud’s Data and Analytics platforms, products and services
• Set, communicate and facilitate technical direction more broadly for the AI Center of Excellence and collaboratively beyond the Center of Excellence
• Design and develop breakthrough products, services or technological advancements in the Data Intelligence space that expand our business
• Work alongside product management to craft technical solutions to solve customer business problems.
• Own the technical data governance practices and ensures data sovereignty, privacy, security and regulatory compliance.
• Continuously challenging the status quo of how things have been done in the past.
• Build data access strategy to securely democratize data and enable research, modelling, machine learning and artificial intelligence work.
• Help define the tools and pipeline patterns our engineers and data engineers use to transform data and support our analytics practice
• Work in a cross-functional team to translate business needs into data architecture solutions.
• Ensure data solutions are built for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Mentor junior data architects and team members.
• Keep current on technology: distributed computing, big data concepts and architecture.
• Promote internally how data within Blackbaud can help change the world.

What you'll bring

• 18+ years of experience in data and advanced analytics
• At least 8 years of experience working on data technologies in Azure/AWS
• Expertise in SQL and Python
• Expertise in SQL Server, Azure Data Services, and other Microsoft data technologies.
• Expertise in Databricks, Microsoft Fabric
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, data lakes, data mesh and data products.
• Experience with machine learning
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with .Net/Java and Microservice Architecture

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