Data Architect

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. 

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Data Architects define standards and design the flow of data throughout both the enterprise and the external ecosystem (customers, channels, etc.). They work closely with users, systems designers, and developers on a delivery team. They have an end-to-end vision, to see how a logical design will translate into one or more databases, and recognize how data will flow through the successive stages involved. Data Architects address issues of data migration (including validation, clean-up, and mapping), and understand the importance of data dictionaries.

The Data Architect is responsible to define standards and design the flow of data throughout both the enterprise and the integration to external ecosystems (customers, channels, etc.).  At Costco, we are on a mission to significantly leverage our complex data to provide better products and services for our members. This role is focused on data architecture specific to our Data & Analytics Membership Delivery POD and to own the vision for the data landscape at Costco working collaboratively with the Data Platform team, Product Owners, Data Engineers, BI Engineers, and Data Scientists. In this role you are required to lead development and maintenance of data architecture and work with a team of Data Architects to improve the maturity of curated data, data pipelines, data quality, and data governance to support data democratization. A Data Architect is a knowledgeable leader with an ability to lead and is passionate about coaching and using data to solve business problems. The right individual will have a vision for the overall data landscape with the ability to develop technically viable global data architecture.

We are looking for a highly motivated, business focused Data Architect who wants to work in a fun and highly collaborative environment and is willing to be the player as well as coach for the data architecture community at Costco.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

●      Drives the data architecture strategy in collaboration with enterprise architecture.

●      Builds, optimizes, and maintains logical (curated) data models.

●      Advises team on translating business needs into long-term data architecture solutions.

●      Works with Data Engineering and Data Platform teams to conduct ongoing performance optimizations in the data model.

●      Assists in defining data integration, storage, replication, and transformation protocols for the data layer of technical solutions supported by enterprise architecture.

●      Creates data quality rules and validations to monitor critical business metrics/KPIs.

●      Develops a thorough knowledge and understanding of cross system data flows as well as an enterprise view of Costco’s data landscape.

●      Participates in the Data Architecture Center of Excellence (CoE).

●      Maintains detailed documentation (i.e. data flow diagrams, source to target mappings, etc.).

REQUIRED

●      3+ years’ experience in data architecture design, implementation, and maintenance of complex datasets.

●      3+ years’ experience in data warehousing and/or dimensional modeling.

●      2+ years’ experience working in cloud data warehouses (Google Big Query preferred).

●      Experience working with data modeling tools (Erwin preferred).

●      Experience architecting and delivering data engineering/integration pipelines.

●      Experience designing and developing performance-optimized data models.

●      Proficient in SQL.

●      Ability to participate in off hours 24/7 on call support on a rotational basis.

Recommended

●      Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions.

●      Experience with Git for code storage and collaboration.

●      Architectural level experience in information privacy, data compliance, and risk management.

●      Exposure to the retail industry.

●      Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

●      Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents

●      Cover Letter

●      Resume

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Pay Ranges: 

Level 1  - $36.06/ hr - $52.88/ hr

Level 2  - $100,000 - $135,000

Level 3  - $130,000 - $170,000

Level 4  - $155,000 - $200,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.  In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.