Job Description: The Solutions Architect is responsible for designs and oversight of data solution for enterprise data team(s). This involves the uniformity of application implementations under their influence, proper performance of those applications, and the team’s developed solutions are within enterprise direction. This position will be responsible for ensuring that software developed meets CarMax® architectural and quality expectations and requires a knowledge about all applicable business processes. The Solutions Architect works with the Enterprise Architecture team to develop standards and design patterns. This position will work with various IT teams to champion the adoption of patterns, platforms, and architectural tools. Solutions Architect provide mentorship and are asked to provide positive and developmental feedback and capitalizes on teachable moments to grow others. This position is responsible for the technical training of associates. Job Responsibilities: Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data. Align technology strategies to key business performance metrics Drives design consensus within the team while maintaining awareness with other teams Drive and facilitate the discussions with business leaders to identify technology capabilities that inform current and future business objectives Designs modifications to existing software, designs reusable components, and elimination of redundancy in designs throughout their team’s environment Develop & curate data models for Analytics and ensure the data pipelines are based on the data architecture Be the point person for supporting data analyst and scientists data engineering. Assess technology trends and direction providing guidance on how those trends will impact organization opportunities as well as risk Partner with other Architects to ensure consistent translation of enterprise architecture decisions to solution architects, conduct solution design reviews, and arbitrate solution design conflicts across domains Develop technology architecture strategies based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations. Ensure governance of data products is following the defined data architecture and implementation standards Analyze current technologies used within the company and determine ways to improve Implement enterprise solutions, guide High Level Design for Data Integration, Capture tactical and strategic goals to provide traceability through the organization Creates, reviews, and develops software throughout the team’s environment and effectively communicates the rationale behind the designs Job Requirements: Demonstrated ability in statistical analysis, advanced calculations, and reporting Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills and performs well in high pressure or stressful situations Ability to drive through obstacles and time constraints to successfully deliver a project to completion Proven ability to effectively communicate architectural standards and best practices Demonstrated ability to effectively estimate effort, durations and enterprise impact required for large technical solutions Ability to evaluate long term impacts when making recommendations and decisions. Demonstrated communication skills to include but not limited to verbal and written communication, delivering organized presentations, able to tailor message to the audience, and facilitate group discussions with diplomacy and seek diverse opinions Able to effectively estimate time required for technical efforts for projects of all sizes Demonstrated ability to compare and contrast alternative approaches to meet objectives while assessing risk both quantitatively and qualitatively Strong knowledge database structure systems and data mining. Excellent organizational and analytical abilities. Outstanding problem solver. Demonstrate the ability to create high quality technical artifacts such as Source to Target Mappings (STMs) and Record Level Specifications (RLS) Qualification & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or relevant field. 5+ years of architecting, developing, and deploying scalable enterprise data solutions (Enterprise Data Warehouses, Data Marts, ETL/ELT workloads, etc.); 1+ years of design, development, and implementation experience with the Cloud Data Ecosystem using MPP databases (Redshift, Snowflake, or Azure Data warehouse), data storage (S3 or Azure Blob Storage) and/or analytics platforms (i.e. Spark, Databricks, etc.). 1+ years leveraging cloud environments and service-oriented architecture principles to define and own Solution Architecture (applications and data technologies)Data Modeling: 5 years (Preferred) Azure or AWS: 1 years (Preferred) 5+ years’ experience integrating data from disparate sources Experience in Agile development methodologies Proficient in Data Governance practices and experience Job Details: Company: CarMax Vacancy Type: Part Time Job Location: Richmond, VA, US Application Deadline: N/A Apply Here vacancyoptions.com