Principal Cloud Data Architect

Job Description

Sinclair Inc. is seeking a full-time Principal Cloud Data Architect (Sr. Cloud Data Architect) to join our growing company and work under the direction of our Senior Director of MDM & Data Mesh on the Enterprise Data & Insights (ED&I) team. The primary mission of the ED&I team is to lead Sinclair into the future by generating Data Value that will fundamentally transform the business. This position will play a key role in helping to design, build, and optimize cloud-based and on-premises services and applications for our portfolio of products.

This position is viewed as a leadership position serving the entire ED&I team and will engage on all efforts requiring architectural vision and support. The ideal candidate should be comfortable taking ambiguous requests and making sense out of them, formalizing the process, and ensuring that each effort connects into the bigger enterprise picture. As a technical leader, this candidate will play a pivotal role in developing our engineering talent and will actively cultivate a positive culture that empowers engineers and junior architects to continuously grow and develop new skills. This candidate will also develop company-wide standards and processes that will optimize and nurture our SDLC to deliver initiatives on-schedule and on-budget across a wide range of technologies, languages, and systems.

Responsibilities:

50% - Data Strategy and Architecture:
• Collaborate with ED&I and IT leadership to develop data architecture strategies and roadmaps
• Lead the design and implementation of data architecture solutions, including data lakes, data warehouses, and streaming data platforms, on cloud and on-premises environments
• Lead the enterprise data architecture practice and actively participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) meetings
• Collaborate with members of ARB to evaluate risk, benefit, and strategic alignment of IT solutions
• Assist with the development of business cases, quantifying the value of architecture.
• Develop, maintain and regularly communicate metrics that demonstrate the value of the Architecture Practice
• Design and deliver highly available, durable, and cost-efficient solutions for initiatives, products, and proofs of concepts
• Closely partner with program and technical project managers to ensure technical delivery of large engineering projects that span teams and disciplines
• Collaborate with analysts to identify architecture enablers and capabilities needed to meet business requirements
• Communicate to build consensus, while creating and driving technical decisions
• Help the company identify growth opportunities in new and emerging green field technical domains

25% - Leadership and Team Management:
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills, supervise, mentor and influence engineers to help grow them both technically and professionally including spearheading events such as lunch & learn to mentor other engineers
• Create credibility and trust as a coach while providing clear vision and direction to the engineering organization
• Supervise a team of technical resources responsible for data solution design and engineering and develop junior talent
• Create, inspire, and engage others to grow and learn while leading respectfully and confidently while you collaborate and broaden community influence

25% - Cloud Admin, Governance Standards, and Best Practices:
• Establish, maintain and enforce data-specific and cloud-specific architecture standards and practices for the ED&I team
• Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize Sinclair software development lifecycle processes to ensure consistent quality of our organization's delivery of cloud-native and on premises software
• Communicate to build consensus, while creating and driving technical decisions
• Have a working familiarity with industry best practices, architectures, and patterns

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Proven experience as a Principal Data Architect or a similar leadership role
• Outstanding leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
• 10+ years architecting and delivering software on premises and in the Cloud
• 7+ years' experience in Python, Node.JS, Java, C#, C/C++, Golang or another modern programming language
• 10+ years' experience in writing advanced SQL and PL/SQL language
• 10+ years of experience developing data integration and ETL/ELT solutions
• 4+ years production usage of cloud services including AWS and Azure
• Experience with building and operating Master Data Management solutions
• Experience with building and operating Enterprise Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and other large scale Data Analytics solutions
• 10+ years of hands-on experience working with both Relational and No-SQL Database Platforms including Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Teradata, MongoDB and other distributed or massively parallel data platforms
• Proficiency in data governance, data security, and data quality best practices
• Experience architecting complex tools from scratch through production
• Experience designing complex system integration methods and architectures
• Experience building and running durable and highly scalable applications
• Experience assessing data integrity and improving data collection and integration strategies
• Experience identifying trends, patterns, anomalies, spikes, standard deviations, and other occurrences in data sets
• Experience evaluating data at the point of collection for accuracy and quality
• Knowledgeable about algorithmic concepts from at least one information-centric discipline (e.g., statistics, machine learning, information processing, natural language processing, etc.)
• Knowledgeable about the relative computational complexity, scalability, and other nonfunctional requirements of specific architecture approaches
• Experience supervising a team of technical resources
• Effective leadership, communication, and presentation skills
• Expert understanding of CI/CD, modern SDLC, waterfall, and agile development
• Familiar with modern software best practice in areas of testing, monitoring, and deployment
• Experience using data visualization tools (e.g., Cognos Analytics, Power BI, Tableau, Oracle Analytics, etc.)
• Knowledge of the latest data technologies such streaming analytics, graph databases, lambda architecture, etc. a huge plus
• Knowledge of integration platform-as-a-service technologies such as Boomi is a plus
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CDMP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) are a plus

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2ew46-3-137-156-0-42 in your application.