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Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa  - Urbandale  
Function: Technology (CA)
Title: Senior Architect, Data-Remote - 89355 
Onsite/Remote:Remote Position

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Architect, Data-Remote within the Data Architecture team at John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group you will join a team responsible for the creation of data architectural designs and development of related best practices.  This role works closely with the engineering teams to understand business requirements, develop supporting data model designs, and contribute to data architecture best practices.  In this role you will

• Transform business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models which support data deployment architectures across multiple data domains.
• Promote and support a data-driven culture of quality, collaboration, rapid delivery, and business impact.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Delivery leads, System Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Stewards, Business Stakeholders and Software Development teams to actively contribute during the solution design process. This includes reviewing potential solutions and making necessary adjustments based on feedback.
• Author, refine, and collaborate on improvement of corporate data architecture standards, procedures, and metrics.
• Communicate data architecture related concepts to both business and development teams.

What Skills You Need

• 5+ years of experience with Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, and working with large-scale datasets.
• Knowledge of data architecture best practices, data warehouse/data mart concepts, including expertise in facts and dimensions, and real-world modeling scenarios.
• Solid understanding of data lineage, data mapping, data security/confidentiality/privacy and related data standards.
• Deep knowledge of entity-relationship diagrams, normalization, abstraction, denormalization, dimensional modeling, and meta data modeling practices.
• Working knowledge of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and SQL.
• Demonstrated willingness and confidence to make decisions with limited knowledge while balancing best practices, schedule, and business needs.
• Strong collaboration skills with demonstrated experience driving conversations and influencing without authority on complex data design challenges.
• Proven performance communicating up, down, and across an entire organization, with the ability to model and communicate complex concepts in both written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated ability to work with limited supervision, break down complex data architectural requirements, prioritize work and execute.

What Makes You Stand Out

• 2+ years of experience designing data models in PowerDesigner.
• 2+ years of experience with Collibra or actively engaged in leveraging the metadata within Collibra or a similar metadata repository.
• Working experience in AWS or exposure to other cloud technologies.
• Working knowledge of or exposure to Data Engineering and the respective tools and technologies (e.g., Databricks, Data Lake concepts).
• Working Knowledge of or exposure to AWS services such as Lambda, RDS, ECS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, etc.
• Working Knowledge of rest API development or providing data architectural support during API development.
• Experience implementing and/or leveraging Data Governance and Stewardship program capabilities.
• Passionate, creative, curious, accountable and have the desire to learn new complex technical areas with a focus on quality.
• Experience working with agile methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to function in a fast paced, collaborative team environment that is distributed across time zones and locations.

Education

Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor's degree in either Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS, or other IT related discipline.

What You'll Get

At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Benefit Pension)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use

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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

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