Data Architect

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks eighth in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Data Architects define standards and design the flow of data throughout both the enterprise and the external ecosystem (customers, channels, etc.). They work closely with users, systems designers, and developers on a delivery team. They have an end-to-end vision, to see how a logical design will translate into one or more databases, and recognize how data will flow through the successive stages involved. Data Architects address issues of data migration (including validation, clean-up, and mapping), and understand the importance of data dictionaries.

This Data Architect will focus on our Membership and Marketing domains as we enable insights to the business through a “Member 360” view of data. In this role you are required to lead development and maintenance of data architecture and work with a team of data architects to improve the maturity of curated data, data pipelines, data quality, and data governance to support data democratization. A data architect is a knowledgeable leader with an ability to lead and is passionate about coaching and to use data to solve business problems. The right individual will have a vision for the overall data landscape with the ability to develop technically viable global data architecture.

We are looking for a highly motivated, business focused data architect who wants to work in a fun and highly collaborative environment and is willing to be the player as well as coach for the data architecture community at Costco.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Acts as the subject matter expert in Costco business data domains or subject areas (i.e. Sales, Inventory, Promotions, etc.).
• Defines certified datasets for data consumption (i.e. Reporting, Data Science, APIs, etc.).
• Develops the enterprise data strategy and architectural standards for maintaining the performance, quality, data security, and compliance of certified data sets.
• Builds, optimizes, and maintains conceptual and logical database models and are responsible for partnering with the Data Platform teams for translating to the physical model.
• Develops integration documentation that records how data should flow from source systems to consumption layer (i.e. Source to Target Mappings).
• Supports Data Stewards in the Delivery Team(s) in capturing and documenting business metadata (i.e. definitions)
• Evaluates existing data architectures to improve data velocity.
• Brainstorms ideas with Database Developers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Platform Engineers to generate new data products.
• Stays current on data industry trends for data related technologies, architectures, and methodologies.
• Documents and provides recommendations resulting from data quality analysis.
• Participates in production delivery of operational business performance monitoring capabilities.
• Analyzes and translates business requirements into conceptual and fully detailed logical data models.
• Advises team on translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions.
• Develops and maintains reference architectures for data services.
• Works with data engineering and data platform teams to conduct ongoing performance enhancement by troubleshooting and introducing new technologies.
• Assists in defining data integration, storage, replication and transformation protocols for the data layer of technical solutions supported by enterprise architecture.

Required

• Strong understanding of database storage concepts (data lake, relational databases, NoSQL, Graph, data warehousing).
• Experience architecting and delivering data integration and ETL solutions.
• Experience working with data modeling tools (erwin data modeling tool).
• Experience working with Cloud database(s).

Recommended

• 3+ years’ experience in data architecture with large and complex datasets.
• 3+ years’ experience working with Cloud technologies such as ADLS, Azure Databricks, Spark, Azure Synapse, Cosmos DB, and other big data technologies.
• Familiar with data modeling standards, guidelines and tools. (ERWIN – Data modeling tool).
• Exposure to designing and developing performance-optimized data models.
• Experience in developing a big picture view of data needs of business and builds the architecture on the basis of a strong technical foundation.
• Experience leading data architecture and data solutions through agile software development methodologies.
• Exposure to Membership and Marketing domains within Costco.
• Exposure to Membership systems (MGLO, CRM, iSeries).
• Experience leading software development teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Pay Ranges

Level 2 – $100,000 – $135,000

Level 3 – $130,000 – $170,000

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits – medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.