Columbia Sportswear Company · 7 hours ago
Data Architect – Azure Data & Analytics (Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks)
Carlsbad, California, United States of America
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$145K/yr - $242K/yr
7+ years expColumbia Sportswear Company is a leading brand known for its commitment to outdoor adventures. They are seeking a Data Architect to design and implement a modern data and analytics platform, focusing on data architecture, governance standards, and scalable insights to support business decision-making.
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Responsibilities
Continuously delivers and improves prioritized enterprise data assets that enable the growth of global analytics, reporting, and visualization solutions
Provides expertise in all end-to-end components in our BI/DW architecture and knows how they contribute to compose solutions for business partners. Demonstrates strong command of both technical delivery as well as comprehension of various business functions. Understands the role of various enterprise applications
Identifies project risks and impediments, notifies management, and proactively works with other team members to complete assigned tasks as defined by project scope, timelines, and budgets
Participates in the use of Agile practices to elicit and refine requirements through an iterative process of planning, defining acceptance criteria, prioritizing, developing, and delivering enterprise data asset solutions
Operates independently, functions as the lead representative for D&A on projects. Drives and sets design patterns for all of D&A
Drives process improvement to continually raise the bar as the primary owner of function, platform, or process. Drives best practices across the organization. Recognizes process deficiencies and takes independent action to improve
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience
Typically requires 8+ years of professional experience and mastery of relevant technical or business skills required to accomplish the job
Master's Degree required Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
Expert in SQL and query optimization for data platforms such as Azure SQL DW, HDInsight, Teradata, SAP BW/HANA, or Oracle
Expert in database concepts, including normalization, indexing, physical and logical modeling, creation of SQL queries and performance tuning
Familiarity with the Kimball methods of data warehousing techniques, standards and best practices
Experience with management of a star schema implementation and related concepts such as slowly changing and late arriving dimensions
4+ years professional experience with one or more ETL tools such as Informatica, SQL Server Integration Services, Business Objects Data Services, or IBM Datastage
Sound judgment and decision-making, and the appropriate sense of urgency and is a self-starter
Familiarity with data content from typical Supply Chain scenarios, or experience in environments integrated with data from SAP ERP or Microsoft Dynamics a plus
Experience with large scale data processing, data structure optimization and scalability of algorithms a plus
Experience with Microsoft Azure: Data factory, data lake and data warehouse a bonus
7+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or BI roles; 2+ years in an architect or lead capacity
Expertise in data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical) and dimensional design for analytics
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Data & Analytics services (Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Data Lake)
Strong SQL and experience with ETL/ELT frameworks
Familiarity with Power BI semantic modeling and governance
Preferred
Exposure to ERP analytics (SAP) or similar enterprise systems
Company
Columbia Sportswear Company
Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear Company (NASDAQ: COLM) is a global outdoor brand that crafts active lifestyle gear fortified with industry-leading technologies and tested in our backyard.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
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EVP Chief Financial Officer
Matthew Sutton
Senior Vice President, Head of Marketing
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