Chief Architect

DTN is a global leader providing insights and analytics to our customers to feed, fuel, and protect the world. We help people make critical business decisions that impact the agriculture, oil and gas, trading, and weather industries.

It’s a difference you’ve likely felt without even knowing it. From the food on your plate to the gas in your car to the last flight you took, chances are a DTN customer made it possible. And that’s just for starters. That’s why we say, “When our customers prosper, we all win.”

Job Description:

We are looking for a Chief Architect to join our Engineering team. This role will be a technical liaison across the organization for various stakeholders (ex. Leadership, Customer Success, Sales, Product, etc.). This role is remote within the United States.  

What you will be responsible for:  

• Serve as a technical liaison among executives, developers, and stakeholders 

• Establish patterns, best practices, architecture, infrastructure and tooling of solutions 

• Collaborate closely with engineering managers and engineering squads to design, develop, and implement solutions 

• Lead frequent meetings with various stakeholders to ensure alignment and coordination 

• Govern, prioritize, and drive mitigation for technical debt/operational risk related data engineering and architecture 

• Coordinate and influence objective setting and help measure overall progress towards domain and solution level goals 

• Software development processes and workflows    

• Facilitate resolutions of technical conflicts and help the team with trade-offs   

What you will bring to the role:  

• 10+ years data modeling, architecture and development  

• Ability to lead and influence to a wide range of audiences without direct reports/authority  

• Expertise in cleansing, structuring and transforming data 

• Strong SQL knowledge and experience building ETL data pipelines using technologies such as Airflow, Python, Scala, and Apache Spark  

• Experience architecting big data solutions (Big data projects, Data Migrations, etc.) & working in AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider like Azure or GCP 

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, build tools, development frameworks and version control systems 

• Strong understanding of the direction of technological innovation and ability to bring that expertise to the company  

• Experience integrating with CI/CD tools such as Bitbucket Pipelines, Bamboo, Gitlab, Terraform, etc.  

What Will Make You Stand Out: 

• Experience building software on Palantir  

• Strong practical experience with both Agile and SCRUM   

• Strong understanding of data governance, GDPR, CCPA and PII 

• Data Science and/or ML experience (Jupyter&/Python) 

• Hands-on experience composing OCI-compliant containers and orchestration using Docker and K8s 

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