Data Platform Strategist

1 week ago


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada McAfee, LLC Full time

We are seeking a seasoned analytical leader to join our Enterprise Data Platform team as a Senior Data Architect, reporting to the Capability Lead – Data Architecture. As a member of McAfee's enterprise data architecture team, you will manage data platform architecture on the Databricks platform.

Our ideal candidate has experience with data lakehouse modeling and design, including dimensional and relational data modeling, data warehouse design, and data storage, access, loading, and pipeline design.

The role involves collaborating with data stewards and data engineers on solution design, developing and maintaining physical data models for the Databricks platform, and managing metadata in data catalog tools such as Collibra.

You will be responsible for ensuring adherence to data curation standards and guidelines for medallion certification framework and required architecture.

In addition, you will provide oversight to data curation teams, ingestion engineers, and data engineers, including code review and data model design review to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.

We are looking for a senior engineer with 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data modeling, and ETL/ELT, who has experience conducting code reviews and designing and implementing logical and physical data models.

A strong understanding of data modeling tools such as Erwin or ER/Studio, lakehouse architecture, and medallion data organization is required, as well as experience with ETL/ELT development, monitoring, pipelining, and orchestration using Python/PySpark, Scala, or similar programming languages.

Data quality guidelines and testing frameworks, creating technical design documents and data flow diagrams, CI/CD pipelines, agile sprints, Git, and version control are also essential skills for this role.

This is a remote position located in Canada, and we are only considering candidates located in Canada at this time.

The estimated annual salary for this position is around $170,000-$200,000, depending on experience.



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