Staff Data Architect

Job Description SummaryThis position is responsible for building, managing, and supporting our fleet of AWS Redshift data warehouse environments. This role designs, implements, and optimizes data architectures and cluster topologies that enable and support a variety data warehousing, analytics, and reporting workloads.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities: 

In this role you will: 

• Leverage expertise in Amazon Redshift to design, deploy, and maintain our fleet of clusters, tuning the environments to optimize query performance, effectively manage resources, and implement best practices for data storage, retrieval, and processing. 

•  Manage data access policies and practices for our AWS Redshift Fleet, ensuring compliance with regulations like CMMC, DFARS, ITAR, NIST 800-171). 

•  Monitor and optimize the performance of the data platform, including tuning Redshift queries, implementing best practices for data partitioning, compression, and caching, and utilizing tools like Amazon Redshift Advisor. 

•  Document data architectures, data flows, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency and facilitate knowledge sharing across teams. 

•  Configure monitoring and logging systems to track platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and respond to incidents promptly. 

•  Anticipate, track and advise management on risks and opportunities pertaining to trade-offs between performance and cost 

•  Stay abreast of the latest technologies, architecture trends, and management best practices pertaining to analytical data storage. 
• Assist with monitoring, tracking and forecasting of cloud costs across the Data Warehouse  

 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with a minimum of 6 years of experience in cloud & database storage technologies such as AWS RedShift
• Minimum 4 years experience with database technology and minimum 3 years of experience on AWS or equivalent cloud technologies

Eligibility Requirement:

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

 

 

Desired Characteristics: 

Technical Expertise:  

• Direct experience with provisioning, managing AWS Redshift or other cloud-native data warehouse-like solutions 

•  Experience with MPP data architecture and performance optimizations 

•  Experience / Familiarity with other AWS data services such as S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, and DynamoDB 

•  Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform 

•  Experience with designing and implementing security policies in AWS (IAM, resource policies, roles) 

•  Familiarity with the operation and support of workloads from data visualization platforms 

•  AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, AWS Certified Solutions Architect). 

•  Familiarity with ITIL service management practices, including Incident Management, Change management, Problem management, availability management 

 

 Business Acumen:  

• Adept at navigating the organizational matrix; understanding people's roles, can foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources and rally teammates. 

• Understand how internal and/or external business model works and facilitate active customer engagement 

• Able to articulate the value of what is most important to the business/customer to achieve outcomes  

• Able to produce functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize, using presentation and storytelling concepts. 

• Possess extensive knowledge of full solution catalog within a business unit and proficiency in discussing each area at an advanced level. 

• Ability to leverage historical & current data to build forecasts on cluster needs and cost; ability to build & update the logic required for assessing out cost to our partners.  

 

Leadership:  

• Demonstrated working knowledge of internal organization. 
• Foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources, rally teammates.  

• Delivers tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals. Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits. High say do ratio. 

• Demonstrated ability to work with and/or lead blended teams, including 3rd party partners and customer personnel. 

• Demonstrated Change Management /Acceleration capabilities 

• Strong interpersonal skills, including creativity and curiosity with ability to effectively communicate and influence across all organizational levels 

• Proven analytical and problem resolution skills 

• Ability to influence and build consensus with other Information Technology (IT) teams and leadership 

• Passionate about Problem Solving and the continuous improvement journey along the FLIGHT DECK fundamentals. 

•  Ability to thrive is a highly matrixed environment   

 

 

Note:  

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used. 

 

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager. 

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No