About this role
Job Title: Solution Architect, Sr
Company: Entergy
Location: New Orleans, LA (preferred); other locations will be considered
Job Description
The Senior Solution Architect is an integral member of the product delivery teams, driving end-to-end technical designs for multiple projects to deliver analytic products to business customers. The Senior Solution Architect interacts with multiple customer stakeholders, understands their business and functional requirements and works with the product team to design and deliver technical solutions, leveraging the data analytics platform where possible. The Senior Solution Architect’s key knowledge set includes system agile development life cycle, integration architectures, technology tools, database architectures, data management principles, data modelling techniques and methodologies, communication and problem solving. The Senior Solution Architect will design large scale, enterprise wide data processing solutions, database schemas and interfaces to relational and non-relational databases. Additionally, the Senior Solution Architect will design small, temporary architectural solutions to support product delivery schedules should the enterprise data analytics platform be unavailable at the time the product must be delivered to a business customer.
The Senior Solution Architect will act as a member of product teams, ensuring product team members understand the Senior Solution Architectures being designed and helps guide and oversee the implementation of solution architectures. The Senior Solution Architect will work closely with the IT department to ensure solution architectures will successfully operate in current technology environments.
The Senior Solution Architect will work with other team members on the data analytics platform team to create plans and strategies for adopting new tools, technologies, and alternative solution architectures including leveraging the cloud.
Duties / Responsibilities
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Design conceptual data architectures solution for data-centric analytics projects.
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Analyze data sources, design and evaluate feasible technical solutions to be implemented by data engineers. The solutions might include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation and configuration management.
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Understand the complexity of data and design systems and models to handle different data sources/formats, which includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured, as well as stream processing.
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Use data mapping, data mining and data transformational analysis tools to design and develop technical solution architectures.
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Prepare and maintain accurate solution design and architectural documentations for delivery, platform and operations team.
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Play a contributing role in the development and update of enterprise data architectur