About This Role
This Data Architect I position is for a professional who will lead the technical design for modernizing Accu Weather For Business, a platform delivering data and services to Fortune 500 companies. The role involves assessing legacy infrastructure, designing a cloud-native architecture, and owning the technical direction of this critical modernization initiative while ensuring reliability for enterprise clients. The Data Architect I will report to the Data Architect II overseeing Accu Weather’s data architecture function.
Responsibilities
- Assess the legacy, on-premises infrastructure behind Accu Weather For Business, documenting current-state architecture, system dependencies, data flows, and technical debt to inform modernization priorities
- Design the cloud-native architecture, producing architecture designs, technical specifications, and other documentation needed to guide implementation
- Own the architectural direction for the modernization effort, ensuring a cohesive approach across the platform rather than individual services or components
- Develop a roadmap and sequencing plan that provides a practical path from the current environment to the cloud-native architecture while minimizing disruption to enterprise clients
- Design backend data systems to maintain continuity of critical data delivery services throughout the transition
- Partner with engineering and data teams to validate and implement architecture designs, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, performant, and maintainable
- Contribute hands-on to the implementation of architecture designs, including developing and modifying code, data models, schemas, and supporting data platform components
- Estimate data consumption, capacity, and infrastructure requirements, incorporating cloud infrastructure costs into architecture decisions and trade-offs
- Identify and document architectural and operational risks associated with modernizing a customer-facing production platform, and design appropriate mitigation strategies
- Ensure the cloud-native architecture addresses performance, security, scalability, resiliency, recoverability, compliance, and data residency requirements
- Understand system scheduling, integrations, and dependencies across the platform and incorporate them into planning and sequencing
- Serve as a technical point of contact for questions and decisions related to the modernization effort’s architectural direction
Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Information…
