Data Architect

Company: Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
Location: Omaha
Posted on: September 15, 2020

Job Description:

WHO WE ARE:Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies (BHHC) is a group of six insurance companies that are part of the Berkshire Hathaway Group. Our Workers Compensation Division provides premier workers compensation insurance coverage to employers across the country. BHHC has earned an enviable record of success in the insurance industry supported by an A++ A.M. Best rating for the last 10 consecutive years and has seen significant growth.--Our newest office, located in the Denver Tech Center, personifies the area and our team - modern and innovative - where we're perpetuating our culture of creativity, integrity and collaboration. Join us!--WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:As a member of the architecture team, the Data Architect will have oversight and responsibility for the standards, design and documentation of logical and physical analytical data models, for transactional and analytical databases across BHHC processes and frameworks. Working within the customer organization, this individual is required to demonstrate technical architectural leadership, playing a vital role in the design of customer facing data systems. Works closely with Product Owner, Portfolio Leaders and developers to create and maintain data dictionary and data alignment. Helps investigate and resolve data anomalies including data quality issues and ambiguous data definitions. Recommends data integrity checks and controls to ensure data quality.Owns the overall data and data architecture within the organizationWorks closely with Product Owners, Portfolio Leaders and Developers to create and maintain data dictionary and data alignmentDefines governance and best practices around meta-data to ensure an integrated definition of data for enterprise information, and to ensure the accuracy, validity, reusability, and consistent definitions for common reference data.Participate in technical planning & requirements gathering phases including design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and documenting big data-oriented software applications.Architects, designs, and builds Azure and Open source frameworks for ingestion, transformation, improvement, cleaning, and manipulation of data in the business's operational and analytics databases, and troubleshoots any existent issues.Helps investigate and resolve data anomalies including data quality issues and ambiguous data definitions.Recommends data integrity checks and controls to ensure data quality.Defines reusable components/frameworks, common schemas, standards & models to be usedKeeps up with industry trends and best practices, advising senior management on new and improved data engineering strategies that will drive departmental performance leading to improvement in overall data governance across the business; promoting informed decision-making, and ultimately improving overall business performance.Designs, builds and launches extremely efficient & reliable data pipelines to move data (both large and small amounts) into a Data Lake in Azure.Implements and optimizes distributed solutions based on modern big data technologies like Hive, Hadoop, Spark, Elastic Search, Storm, Kafka, etc. in both an on premise and cloud deployment model to solve large scale processing problems.Designs and plans BI, and other Visualization Tools capturing and analyzing data from multiple sources to make data-driven decisions, as well as debugs, monitors, and troubleshoots solutions.Assists with data migrations across the enterprise as well as with optimization and scalability efforts.HOW YOU'D FIT IN:Education:--B.A. / B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology strongly preferred.--A Combination of other certifications/experience may be considered in lieu of degree.Experience:--At least 10+ years of experience in designing, architecting and implementing large scale data sets/data storage/data distribution systems using MS SQL Server. 7+ years of progressive IT and data architecture experience, required.--Certifications: One of the following Microsoft certifications required: Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions; Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions; Engineering Data with Microsoft Cloud Services; Analyzing and VisualizingTechnical Skills:5+ years of logical data modeling experience in a complex data environment, using appropriate data modeling tools.3-4 years experience in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI (Artificial Intelligence).5+ years of demonstrated experience of designing and delivering solutions using analytics services of Microsoft Azure including Azure Machine Learning Studio, HDInsight, Polybase, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Warehouse, Streaming Analytics, Data Catalog, R/R Studio, Power BI.--3+ years of experience in migrating large volumes of data using standard Azure automation tools from on premise and cloud infrastructure to Azure.Expert with at least one ETL and data modeling tool.Hands-on experience with Docker/ Kubernetes and Microservices and DevOps solutions.Knowledge of 'Big Data' and 'Data Lake' concepts and solutions.Deep familiarity with many of the following: Distributed Systems, Databases, Data Lake, Data Processing, Microservices, API design, Containerization and Security. Experience with Data modeling in an Agile development environment.Experience in data governance.WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY:Unparalleled financial strength and stability--Fantastic growth and advancement opportunities--Relaxed Atmosphere with Casual Dress Code--Generous Paid Time Off and Holidays--Excellent Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, etc)--Tuition Assistance Reimbursement--Discounts across companies such as GEICO, See's Candies, etc.

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