Principal Data Architect

Serves as a key contributor to the strategy, design, implementation and support for the data architecture, reporting platform and product catalog that underpin the Xtime fixed-ops portfolio. Works closely with business and technology leadership to establish an architectural framework and facilitate the definition of data strategy, standards, policies and roadmaps. Provides cross-cutting data, reporting and catalog architecture coverage across the Xtime portfolio and its net‑new delivery teams, partnering with the portfolio's Principal Architect and Integrations Architect to maintain a coherent architectural direction.

• Data architecture and the reporting platform across the Xtime portfolio.
• Product catalog - parts, services, and ops menus.
• Drives data strategy across Xtime teams as a horizontal, pattern‑setting authority rather than a single‑team assignment.

• Collaborates with business, engineering and product stakeholders to drive holistic architectural design across the data, reporting and catalog areas described below.
• Monitors industry and the competition for solution‑focused technical and process changes and advances.

• Translates business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases and data warehouses.
• Helps define the data architectural framework, standards and principles, including modeling, metadata, security and reference data.
• Helps define reference architecture and patterns others follow to create and improve data systems across Xtime teams.
• Collaborates with data users, software and other technical stakeholders to structure effective data flows - from generation through transition to application.
• Architects the product catalog domain - parts, services and ops menus - including its data model, sourcing and governance.

• Owns the architecture of the reporting platform that powers dealer, dealer‑group and OEM reporting across the portfolio.
• Defines patterns for OEM and dealer‑group data feeds and report requests (e.g., multi‑media reporting and OEM data feeds, service‑pricing and parts/labor reporting).
• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology and interoperability requirements, producing high‑level design deliverables that enable development teams to build flexible, scalable and secure reporting solutions.
• Creates proofs of concept to determine the viability of new or different data and reporting technologies.

• Provides systems architecture advice and support for the data, reporting and catalog domains across the Xtime product portfolio and its net‑new teams.
• Works with portfolio stakeholders and customers to align the architectural direction of the solution intent.
• Drives structuring of the product vision, roadmap, priorities, enabler capabilities, non‑functional requirements and solution demo activities for the data and reporting platform.
• Engages with cross‑functional partners on PI planning, Architecture Sync, solution capability demonstrations, release management and alignment of technologies across initiatives.
• Consults with architecture, development, infrastructure and operational teams to address issues relating to systems/application architecture, including performance and availability.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as master's degree and 8 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field; or 22 years' experience in a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in full development life cycle, architecture design, and platform implementations.
• Comes from a data architecture discipline / background, with demonstrated experience delivering enterprise scale ETL and reporting solutions.
• Experience designing cloud architectures (preferably AWS, also GCP/Azure).
• Experience with Snowflake, Micro Strategy, Logi or similar enterprise data and reporting…