Senior Data Architect

Company: Kimberly-Clark
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: July 31, 2022

Job Description:

Senior Data Architect

**Job Description**

You're raising the stakes for your career to do more. Learn more. Impact more. Here, y our innovation, ideas, and technical curiosity will help us deliver better care for billions of people worldwide . You'll p ut your professional expertise, talent, and drive to work by building and managing the technology behind our portfolio of iconic brands.

Kimberly-Clark is on a mission to transform to become a data driven and AI-First company. The vision of this team is to embed an algorithm into every K-C decision, process and product.

We are looking for a hardworking, aspirational and innovative Senior Data Architect for our AI engineering and innovation team. This role will play a diverse and far-reaching role across organizations providing leadership and building technical design and solutions for multiple business groups and partners within Kimberly-Clark. You'll drive modernization into our data and platform landscape.

This role is ideal for candidates with strong, hands-on skills in managing large datasets on Azure, experience with frameworks handling real-time as well as batch data patterns, building data transformations in Snowflake, designing data consumption patterns in Snowflake, and building automation templates in DevOps models.

*Responsibilities:*

* Review the business needs and design and build data ingestion and curation on Azure and Snowflake platforms

* Understand the data definitions, business purpose and relationship between data domains and articulate the story telling through data

* Work with platform teams to design and build processes for automation in data pipeline build and testing

* Demonstrate data wrangling expertise in delivering descriptive analytics initiatives

* Design scalable data processing and application architectures, technical deliverables and documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

* Build POCs/Pilots on re-usable and modular data frameworks and reduce manual build of data pipelines

* Design and build data pipelines in Azure ADF, Databricks, Delta lake and PySpark processing techniques

* Build code in SnowSQL, Stored Procedures and leverage Snowpipe to ingest, curate and model data sets in Snowflake

* Design and build near real time and micro-batch data processing frameworks including event driven and batch datasets

* Responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of the ingestion and data delivery frameworks and patterns.

* Experience with Agile methodologies and tools and have a track record of delivery in a production environment.

* Evaluate open source and proprietary technologies and build Proof of concepts to evaluate and recommend all aspects of data architecture (ingestion, curation, consumption) including integration of descriptive and predictive analytics

* Provide insight and direction on roles and responsibilities required for platform/ product operations



* About You *

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of

a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development .

* Required Qualifications: *

* 8+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying data solutions on Azure platform

* Proficient in distributed computing principles, modular application architecture, and various types of data processing patterns - real-time, batch, lambda, and other architectures

* Experience with a broad range of data stores - Object stores (Azure ADLS, HDFS, GCP Cloud Storage), Row and Columnar databases (Azure SQL DW, SQL Server, Snowflake, Teradata, PostgresSQL, Oracle), NoSQL databases (CosmosDB, MongoDB, Cassandra), ElasticSearch, Redis, and Data processing platforms - Spark, Databricks, and SnowSQL

* Experience in designing and architecting data consumption for OLAP and descriptive analytics for multi-tenant applications

* Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and the cloud infra like Azure, AWS, and GCP.

* Experience with programming languages such Python, Java and Scala is preferred

* Familiarity in leveraging Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Analysis Services, Data Lake Analytics, HDInsight, HDP, Spark, Databricks (Delta lake), MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Tez, SSAS, Watson Analytics, SPSS

* Experience with source code management, configuration management, CI/CD, security and performance.

* Self-starter who can see the big picture, and prioritize your work to make the largest impact on the business' and customer's vision and requirements

* Experience in building, testing, and deploying code to run on Azure cloud datalake

* Ability to Lead/nurture/mentor others in the team.

* Must have experience in Agile development methods



* About Us *

Huggies -. Kleenex -. Cottonelle -. Scott -. Kotex -. Poise -. Depend -. 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day , and it takes the best people to make that happen.

We're founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform , especially when it comes to product and process innovation. Our customers are always looking for new and better. Our competitors won't stop evolving. And our communities demand responsible corporate practices. We need bold, transformative ideas from people who can turn them into reality. T hat means t here's no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It's all here for you at Kimberly-Clark .

* Total Benefits *

Here are a few of the benefits you'd enjoy. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com .

You love what you do, especially when your work makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when , and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you'll experience Flex That Work s : flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

* Great support for g ood h ealth * with medical, dental, and vision coverage options . No waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. A ccess to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

* Flexible Savings and spending accounts * to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

* Diverse i ncome protection insurance options * to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury , or other unexpected events.

* Additional programs and support * to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

* To Be Considered *

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, check out the c areers website . You'll want to review this and come prepared with relevant questions if and when you pass GO and begin interviews.

* And finally, the fine print... *

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position. K-C requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event an applicant does not have current work authorization, K-C will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

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*Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:*

K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization. The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C's applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will decided in K-C's sole discretion.

**Primary Location**

USA-GA-Atlanta-Roswell

**Additional Locations**

Dallas World Headquarters, USA-IL-Chicago, USA-TN-Knoxville, USA-WI-Neenah

**Worker Type**

Employee

**Worker Sub-Type**

Regular

**Time Type**

Full time

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