Data Architect

Leave Your Mark on a Better World.

Collaborate With Amazing People.

Make Change Happen.

At North Highland, we believe in doing great things together.

With you.

With our clients.

With a perspective on actions today that shape tomorrow.

As the world’s most innovative, collaborative consulting group, we’ve built a space to share ideas like never before.

Do you have the skills, passion and commitment to transform industries for the better?

Think you can bring your A-game every day?

If so, join us.

We like big thinkers with action on the brain…

Why North Highland?

Every choice you make will give you the opportunity to grow.

It’s our employee ownership model
– with plenty of coaching and personal development opportunities in the mix.

For us, training doesn’t have an off switch.

You’ll learn new things, both during and beyond traditional working hours.

We want people who strive for the next level, then the next.

At North Highland, you’re never a number.

Our firm is large enough to scale up, test your mettle and tackle big challenges, but small enough that clients won’t lose your face in a crowd.

You’re recognized individually.

We started as three leaders and a kitchen table.

Which means we know expectations are made to be broken.

Want to surprise us?

Do it.

Experiment and stretch yourself.

There’s room to grow as a budding entrepreneur.

Exciting work you will do:

• Partner with stakeholders in various business units and locations to ensure execution of the Digital initiatives as it relates to data processing, data warehouse, analytics and related toolsets
• Partner with Global IT teams (Architecture, BI Center of Excellence, Operations and support teams) at all steps of project lifecycle to ensure consistency in tools and standards, smooth set up of solutions and appropriate transition to support and operations.
• Manage 3rd party vendors and partners for the development and delivery of data integration, advanced analytics and reporting needs.

  Define, prioritize and manage the tasks and resolve dependencies or questions raised by the team

• Propose solutions, provide strategic direction, and prioritize on-going demands focused on Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Master Data Management and advanced analytics.
• Manage projects from start to finish and ensure successful implementation within agreed cost, schedule and quality targets.
• Provide thought leadership to the immediate business and technology organization
• Develops architecture specification deliverables that map customer business requirements into complete information systems (technologies, processes and people) or operational solutions.
• Produce diagrams, reference architecture, domain models, and other artifacts that describe complex problems and sprawling end-to-end solutions.

What you will need: 

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture
• 7+ years of experience in leadership, process and project management.
• Familiar with cloud technologies (Azure and AWS analytics stacks) and analytics workbenches (Jupyter, Qubole), Spark, Databricks, Scala, Azure DevOps etc.
• Familiar with most common advanced analytics IDE’s like pyCharm.
• Experience with a Master Data Management tool.

  Experience with latest analytics tools and technologies (tools, Big Data technologies, ETL (for example, Informatica, SAS DI), database query languages, data warehousing, dimensional modeling, data cleansing, OLAP design, data lakes, master data management, advanced analytics, enterprise application integration.

• Experience with performance optimization, large data volume architecture and design, relational and columnar databases, operations, data extracts, data refreshes and workflowsExperience with Business Intelligence, Reporting and Data Visualization architecture, design, tools and technologies is a plus.
• Experience in commercial organization/pharmaceutical industry is strongly preferred
• Up-to-date knowledge of market trends and developments in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and related new technologies preferred to provide recommendations and deliver standard methodology solutions

** Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship by North Highland.

Work visa sponsorship will not be provided, now or in the future, for this position.

North Highland makes change happen for organizations who dare to be different.

By melding workforce, customer and operational transformation, they are one of the world’s leading consulting groups, with 65+ offices around the globe.

They break new ground today so tomorrow is easier to explore.

North Highland is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.