Description and Requirements
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Description and Requirements
BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.
Title: Data Architect (Hands-On Builder)
Location: Mexico Remote
Data Architect will focus on the design, build, and evolve a modern, scalable data architecture that will power analytics, reporting, AI/ML use cases, and operational decision-making across the GTM business. This role will define data patterns and standards, partner with IT, and business partner teams to ensure our data platform is secure, reliable, cost-efficient, and easy to use.
This role is ideal for someone with strong hands-on architecture depth and can define target-state architecture, guide implementation, and ensure high-quality delivery across pipelines, integrations, and governance.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and Own Core Data Pipelines (Hands-On)
- Architect and implement end-to-end ingestion and transformation pipelines from source systems into Snowflake.
- Develop robust ELT/ETL workflows using dbt and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow/Dagster/ADF), including:
- incremental loads, SCD handling, backfills, and reprocessing
- late-arriving data patterns and idempotent job design
- CDC-based ingestion where applicable
- Build integrations for key enterprise SaaS systems (Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, Netsuite, Zuora, Gainsight, CSOD) and internal app databases.
- Data Modeling & dbt Development
- Own the data modeling layer in Snowflake with dbt:
- design dimensional models (star schemas), marts, and curated layers
- implement dbt best practices: staging → intermediate → marts, modular models, macros, packages
- define metric-ready datasets (e.g., ARR/NRR, pipeline, churn, product usage) with consistent definitions
- Optimize for performance and cost (clustering, warehouse sizing, query patterns, caching, micro-partitioning awareness).
Cloud Platform Enablement (AWS + Azure)
- Implement secure, scalable data platform components across AWS and Azure:
- landing zones, storage (S3/ADLS), networking, secrets management, and compute integration patterns
- secure connectivity to Snowflake (PrivateLink/peering patterns where relevant)
- Work with technology teams to implement RBAC, role hierarchy, masking policies, row access policies, and data sharing patterns.
Reliability, Testing, and Observability
- Implement data quality and reliability controls:
- dbt tests (schema, relationship, accepted values) and custom tests for business logic
- anomaly detection and pipeline monitoring (e.g., Datadog/CloudWatch/Azure Monitor, Monte Carlo if applicable)
- SLAs/SLOs for critical datasets and clear incident runbooks
- Build operational readiness: logging, alerting, retries, failure isolation, and safe deploys.
CI/CD, Version Control, and Engineering Practices
- Build and maintain CI/CD for data development (PR checks, dbt builds, environment promotion).
- Establish practical engineering standards:
- naming conventions, repo structure, branching strategy
- documentation that stays current (dbt docs, data dictionaries)
- code reviews and design patterns that scale with the team
AI / Agentic AI Architecture
- Design and implement architecture patterns that support AI/ML, GenAI, and agentic AI use cases across the Sales business, including structured and unstructured data pipelines, retrieval-ready data design, and secure enterprise data access.
- Define scalable patterns for AI-enabled applications and agents, including metadata design, indexing, vector-ready data preparation, API/tool access, and governance controls such as lineage, auditability, observability, and guardrails.
- Partner Closely with Analytics & Business Teams
- Collaborate with BI/Analytics to ensure the curated layer supports dashboards and self-service.
- Translate business needs into data products quickly with tight feedback loops, iterative delivery, measurable outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering and data architecture with a strong hands-on track record.
- Strong production experience with Snowflake (performance tuning, data loading patterns, security model).
- Strong production experience with dbt:
- incremental models, snapshots, tests, macros, documentation, deployments
- Experience building pipelines and integrations in AWS and/or Azure (both preferred).
- Advanced SQL skills and strong understanding of data modeling (dimensional modeling, SCD types).
- Experience with orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Azure Data Factory) and reliable job design.
- Strong understanding & framework implementation of data quality, monitoring, and operational best practices.
Preferred Qualifications (Nice To Have)
- Experience with ingestion tooling (Boomi, Fivetran, Matillion, Informatica, Stitch) and/or CDC tooling (Debezium/HVR).
- Experience designing or supporting data architecture for GenAI, RAG, enterprise search, or agentic AI use cases in production environments.
- Familiarity with modern AI-related technologies and patterns such as OpenAI APIs, LangChain/LangGraph, Snowflake Cortex, Azure AI services, vector-ready data pipelines, and secure tool integration for AI agents.
- Experience with streaming/event ingestion (Kafka/Kinesis/Event Hubs) for near-real-time pipelines.
- Familiarity with governance/security patterns in Snowflake (masking/row access, tags, classification).
- Exposure to BI layers (Tableau/Power BI/Looker) and semantic/metrics frameworks.
- Python experience for custom integrations, APIs, and automation (Lambda, Azure Functions).
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