Principal Data Architect Corporate Finance/Accounting

  • Texas
  • Vistra Corp.
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Job Summary

The Principal Data Architect is responsible for developing, communicating, and delivering the Data Strategy for Finance and Accounting Management business domain that enable business teams, IT teams, and external partners. Enables operational excellence through the establishment and execution of Data Management and Data Governance principles. Lead continuous improvement in solution performance, reliability, compliance, and efficiency. Consistently develops and grows expertise in Data Management, Data Quality and enabling technologies.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Manage the design and evolution of the enterprise Data Strategy, Data Management and Governance. Manage the delivery of the Data Strategy and Data Architecture solutions across the Vistra eco system incorporating multiple business units and locations, third party contractors and Managed service providers. Communicate the Data Strategy across IT, the business, and external partners. Provide technical expertise in the architecture, design, implementation and maintenance of data assets that support business operations and analytics. Data risk management to avoid data loss, manage access to data in a responsible way, and ensure that data quality is trustworthy and fit for purpose, i.e. accountable for the integrity of data, data designs, data security architecture and associated controls.

Education, Experience & Skill Requirements

12+ years minimum of progressive experience in the design and creation of complex Data Architecture solutions for diverse applications. Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Modeling, etc. Expertise in designing solutions for structured and unstructured data. Expertise designing scalable data architecture to support both batch and real-time data products and platforms using best-in-class data technologies such as relational databases, data integration, and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, cloud data warehouse, etc.) for a continuously changing digital landscape. Expertise designing and implementing security and access controls to include masking and encryptions, object tagging, role-based access with row and column level security. Expertise in developing and managing metadata. Expertise creating Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Models that integrate with existing or proposed database structures. Expertise with Data Quality approaches and tools including the ability to perform data profiling. Expertise with Master Data Management (MDM) concept, tools and practices. Strong Leadership, communication and executive presentation skills; ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences.

Key Metrics

Operational Excellence: Streamline and Simplification of solution portfolio. Continuous Improvement: Increased cost efficiency in solution delivery.

Additional Job Requirements

Hands on experience in design and delivery of Data warehouse projects in Finance and Accounting domain SAP S/4 Hana (Finance and Accounting) experience is preferred Strong data warehousing and data modeling concepts are required Hands on experience with ETL/ELT framework design and development is required

Job Family

Information Technology

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving, Texas

Texas

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