Senior Staff Data Architect

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver long-term strategic goals for data architecture vision and standards in conjunction with data users, data teams, partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Work with data leader and architects to design and maintain target-state data architecture, and associated requirements; proactively share data architecture best practices and expectations across Dexcom.
• Lead architecture design for data platform(s) including evaluations of vendor platforms for strategic fit.
• Oversee the mapping of data sources, data movement, interfaces, and analytics, with the goal of ensuring data quality.
• Provide technical recommendations and engage Architects, Business SMEs, and other stakeholders throughout Data Architecture and implementation lifecycle and recommend effective solutions to develop scalable data solutions (data marts/warehouse and data mining and advanced analytics).
• Address data-related problems in systems integration, compatibility, and multi-platform integration.
• Work with data governance lead to drive a single version of the truth, increasing trust and usage of enterprise data across Dexcom.
• Document data architecture and environments to maintain an accurate view of the larger data picture.
• Ensure data strategies and architectures are in regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Expertise in Data Architecture, Data Strategy, and Roadmap for large and complex organizations and systems, with experience in implementing large-scale end-to-end Data Management & Analytics solutions.
• Drive delivery in a matrixed environment working with various internal IT partners.
• Expertise with normalized OLTP, MDM, and Data Warehouse Dimensional modeling techniques, including Star & Snowflake schemas, slowly changing dimensions, role-playing dimensions, dimensional hierarchies, and data classification.
• 5+ years of Google Cloud Platform experience.
• Proficient in evaluating data structures and systems to determine when Third Normal Form (3NF) or denormalization offers efficiency and scalability.
• Expertise in Data Quality, Data Profiling, Data Governance, Data Security, Metadata Management, MDM, Data Archival, and Data Migration strategies using appropriate tools.
• Hands-on experience with open source software platforms and languages such as Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef.
• Hands-on experience with ETL, ELT, streaming stacks (pub-sub, Kafka), Data Stream, Dataflow.
• Experience with analytical tools, languages, or libraries.

Nice to Have

• 3+ years of DbT experience.
• Experience in the medical device or FDA regulated space.
• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineering, Cloud Architect certification.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline and a minimum of 13+ years related experience, or a Master's degree and 8+ years industry experience, or a PhD and 5+ years of experience.

Benefits & Perks

• A front row seat to life-changing CGM technology and the #dexcomwarriors community.
• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to employees, customers, and communities.