Senior Specialist, Data Architect

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Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title:
Senior Specialist, Data Architect

Job Code: 40982

Job Location:
Huntsville, AL

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

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Harris Missile Solutions Segment Business Intelligence team is seeking a Senior Specialist, Data Architect and engineer that will be responsible for supporting solutions including the design, implementation and integration within Palantir foundry while leading cross-functional technical teams to enable data-driven decision-making for missile systems development and operations. This role will be responsible for data warehouse governance practices including data management, data quality, data security, and provisioning access.

They will identify and develop sound data architectures by working with users and stakeholders to understand data visualization and reporting requirements. This role requires the ability to lead a team of programmers, data scientists, and business system experts with strong problem-solving skills, business acumen, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (including executives) to drive data-driven decision-making.

• Design and maintain data ontologies by defining object types, properties, and relationships that accurately represent business entities and their connections, ensuring data consistency and enabling powerful analytics across the organization.
• Develop interactive applications and workshops to create user-friendly solutions that enable business users to explore data, perform analyses, and make data-driven decisions without requiring technical expertise.
• Document and maintain data models and metadata management solutions to facilitate efficient and effective use of data.
• Create and optimize dashboards and applications to deliver real-time insights and enable self-service analytics for business stakeholders across various functional areas.
• Lead planning sessions with customers to improve business processes, prioritize investments in data and infrastructure, and translate data strategies into data integration frameworks and user-facing applications.
• Contribute the development and documentation of consistent methodologies and governance for extracting, transforming, and analyzing data from various sources such as Snowflake and Palantir, ensuring effective visualization and reporting.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with IT and Data Analytics teams to ensure resource optimization, synchronization of initiatives, and prevent duplication of work across the enterprise, while maintaining comprehensive documentation including pipeline specifications, data schemas, and user guides.

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience or a Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

• Building and managing datasets, objects, pipelines, and transforms in Foundry.
• Designing and implementing Ontologies within Foundry.
• Creating Foundry applications and workshops for end-user consumption.
• Experience with Foundry's Code Repositories (Python, SQL, Type Script).
• 2+ years of experience with data extract, transform, and load (ETL & ELT patterns), data storage, and data models using Palantir Foundry Pipeline Builder and/or Python.
• 2+ years of experience with Power BI or similar…