Position

Data Solution Architect

Posted

07-Aug-2025

Location

Reading, Pennsylvania

Category

Other

Remote Friendly

Hybrid

Work Type

Contract

Reference

Salary Range

225965

Compensation: Competitive; Open to negotiation based on experience

Hybrid Details: 2-3 days/week onsite
Duration: 2 months to start 

Job Duties:

  • Technical Leader on the Data engineering team, defining IT Process and Technology strategies, familiarity with emerging technology trends, defining a roadmap and building consensus with Senior IT Leadership
  • Help drive innovation by staying current with rapidly developing Data Engineering landscape and share knowledge internally and with customers
  • Define and maintain data engineering strategy & roadmap, build consensus with Senior IT Leadership• Meet with Senior & Mid-Level Management to align business process initiatives and strategies with current and planned Penske Data Engineering & Analytics Architecture
  • Evaluate Data Engineering & Analytics Tools/Techniques/ Approaches and determine impact on strategic objectives and manage overall implementation
  • Be the primary contact and technical lead for multiple critical programs and integrations and resolve customer issues in a timely manner
  • Effectively lead teams through the data engineering lifecycle (design, develop, test, release, and support) based on detailed requirements
  • Collaborate with product owners and facilitate working sessions to acquire and understand requirements / acceptance criteria and translate into technical requirements
  • Recommend conceptual designs and architecture, producing deliverables for multiple medium to large complex projects on time and under budget
  • Lead the discovery and decision-making process when changes to standards and technology (tools, conventions, and design patterns)
  • Play a leadership role in building data security and data governance guidelines
  • Evaluate and research third-party packages and recommend customization and deployment opportunities as part of recommending a technical solution
  • Own the architectural design of projects, provide expertise to project teams, and ensure adherence to established architectural standards and principles
  • Provide constructive input and development opportunities for team members to department management
     
Minimum Skills Required:
  • 14+ years of overall technology experience required
  • 12+ years of Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, Reference Data Management, Data Lineage, Data Governance and Meta Data Management experience required
  • 7+ years of experience in defining Data & Analytics architecture implementing multiple large volume projects across onprem and oncloud environments. Preferably AWS.
  • 5+ years of experience collaborating with Agile teams preferred
  • Expertise in designing, validating, and implementing multiple projects across the hybrid infrastructure (On-cloud to On-Premises and vice versa)
  • Expertise in setting up Data Lakes and analytical environments
  • Expertise with Data Engineering tools such as Talend, BODS, Python, PySpark,Kafka,d API’s etc.
  • Expertise with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience in building data pipelines, data ingestions, data integrations, data preparations, and traditional Data warehouses and Datamarts
  • Experience in building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
  • Strong experience with data modelling techniques utilizing tools such as Erwin, ER Studio etc.
  • Experience with visualization tools such as QlikView, Qlik Sense, Tableau, etc.
  • Experience in message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores
  • Experience with big data tools such as Kafka
  • Strong analytic skills related to working with complex datasets
  • Expert knowledge of appropriate design frameworks and patterns and experience in implementing them
  • Ability to consistently develop knowledge of industry wide technology strategies and best practices
  • Able to communicate highly technical concepts in clear/concise manner to non-technical individuals
  • Experience prioritizing technology needs within set budget requirements
  • Excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills


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Recruiter Name: Ashish Mahender Rang

Recruiter Email:  ashish.r@talentgroups.com

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