Data Platform Architect

About The Role::

It's a great time to join us at Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)! ARC accelerates the growth of global air travel by delivering forward-looking travel data, flexible distribution services and other innovative industry solutions. We are a leading travel intelligence company with the world’s largest, most comprehensive global airline ticket dataset, including more than 15 billion passenger flights. By working here, you can contribute to solutions and expertise that strengthen economies and enrich lives. We think big, embrace challenges and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.

ARC is looking for a Data Platform Architect to join our team! In this role, you will design and evolve data frameworks, standards, and principles, significantly impacting the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our ecosystem.  As new business challenges arise or strategies change, you will  adapt our architectural guidance accordingly. Additionally, you will foster technology innovation, identify opportunities for technical efficiencies, and evolve best practices while communicating these elements to the appropriate technical stakeholders. This role will work closely with leaders across the business and within business technology.

1. Define enterprise data architecture principles, standards, and frameworks; get buy-in from stakeholders, management, business partners.
2. Keep current with the newest tools, technologies, ideas, patterns, and methodologies. Effectively communicate these insights and concepts to key stakeholders.
3. Assist with the selection of all data related technologies, and the development of standards, usage guidelines and procedures for those tools.
4. Actively review technological changes in data management and pursue an understanding of the organization’s business plans and strategies. Evaluate the value of these trends to the organization and present the information to management and other team members.
5. Work closely with product teams, data scientists, and other stakeholders to identify and meet data requirements.
6. Partner with others in business technology to develop and maintain plans to ensure the availability and integrity of data in the event of a disaster or system failure, minimizing downtime and data loss.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• 8+ years of experience with Enterprise Data Warehouse technologies.
• 5+ years of proven implementation experience with scalable cloud data platform technologies (Snowflake, AWS preferred).
• 5+ years of experience with databases and big data technologies such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• 3+ years of experience in data lake design and implementation.
• Experience in architecting streaming/event-driven data platforms, addressing data lineage and quality issues, and familiarity with modern data operating models.
• Proficiency in sourcing, transforming, and processing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technology strategy and best practices across peer and leadership groups in an agile/rapid development environment.
• Knowledge of industry best practices for PCI and GDPR compliance.
• Experience with machine learning/deep learning is a plus.
• Work experience in the air travel industry is a plus.

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• Joining ARC means joining a team that is motivated, diverse, creative, collaborative and solutions-oriented. We think big, embrace challenges, and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.
• Our employees value the hands-on learning and professional development opportunities that allow them to expand their skills and grow their career in new, dynamic ways.
• ARC offers WorkFlex. WorkFlex is ARC’s hybrid work program which offers eligible employees the flexibility to work from home while also requiring in office workdays throughout the year to foster collaboration and connection throughout the organization. We’ve designed WorkFlex to enable employees to succeed and thrive while maintaining strong connections to one another and ARC - both of which are critical to our shared success.
• We offer a highly competitive, comprehensive benefits package so you can worry less and focus on what truly matters.
• By joining ARC, you will partner with top minds in the industry as we use data and technology to innovate how the world travels.

EOE M/F/D/V Females and Minorities Encouraged to Apply