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Principal Data Architect - David's Bridal
Data Architect
We're looking for a Data Architect focused on designing and building scalable technical solutions. This lead role requires 9+ years of relevant experience.
About the role
- Define and own the enterprise data architecture roadmap, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with business strategy.
- Design and implement sophisticated data models supporting commerce, customer lifecycle, finance, supply chain, inventory, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Build and optimize secure data pipelines integrating Shopify and multiple enterprise systems into a unified Snowflake and SQL Server environment.
- Lead standards for data governance, privacy, lineage, cataloging, quality, and master data management.
- Drive best practices for Power BI semantic models, architecture, and performance governance across business functions.
- Provide architectural oversight for ELT frameworks, automation, and orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow, Matillion, Fivetran, etc.).
- Partner with engineering, data, product, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable, future-proof solutions.
- Mentor internal data engineering teams and influence leadership on data strategy and platform investment decisions.
- Serve as the senior technical authority for data architecture across the organization.
- 7–10+ years experience in enterprise data engineering, architecture, or platform ownership roles.
- Proven expertise in:
- Snowflake (design, security, cost management, workload optimization)
- SQL Server (schema design, tuning, stored procedures, indexing)
- Advanced SQL capability with demonstrated experience optimizing large, complex, high volume workloads.
- Strong experience implementing and supporting Power BI enterprise deployments (governance, semantic layer design, modeling patterns).
- Hands-on experience with modern ELT tooling and orchestration (dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, Stitch, Matillion, Databricks, etc.).
- Demonstrated eCommerce data experience, ideally including Shopify — understanding of order lifecycle, OMS, payments, fulfillment, customer segmentation, and attribution.
- Experience building scalable architecture frameworks aligned to business intelligence, operational reporting, and AI/ML readiness.
- Retail or multi-channel commerce experience (stores + eCommerce).
- API experience (REST / GraphQL) and complex system integrations.
- Knowledge of compliance and governance: SOC2, GDPR, CCPA, PCI-DSS.
- Python experience for workflow automation or integration scripting.
- A senior technical leader who is both visionary and execution-minded.
- Able to influence at executive level while guiding implementation details.
- Practical and business-oriented — not just an architect on paper.
- Thrives in transforming legacy data landscapes into modern, scalable platforms.
- Rewarding Environment and Competitive Pay
- Generous Dream Maker Discount After First Pay Period
- Referral Incentive Program
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