Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Purpose
Data Architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations. The Data Architect is responsible for visualizing and designing an organization's enterprise data management framework. This framework describes the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create, execute, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge data.

The Data Architect also "provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture."

The engineer part is all about executing these strategies in real product life-cycle situations, while understanding the product requirements and data needs.

Essential Duties

• Translating business requirements to technical specifications, including state diagrams and transitions, integrating transformations, data security and lifecycle consistent with PCI and PII standards.
• Defining the data architecture framework, standards, and principles. This includes modeling, metadata security, reference data, and performance characteristics and analysis.
• Defining Data patterns or reference architecture which limit data complexity and manageability.
• Support the data development needs of several teams which currently work on our product.
• Commonly work with Microsoft SQL tools for analysis, incident forensics, and stored procedures in support of development efforts.
• Review data access and models used by development teams when implementing solutions reliant on data.

Other Duties

• Being an active member and good communicator when working with stakeholders, partners, vendors, development teams, and upper management.
• Typical work is standard shifts, but the occasional incident of critical business events may require weekend or after-hour work.
• Ability to generate reports concerning data when requested.

Required Qualifications

• College degree in data science or strongly related field
• 5-8 years of experience in data related field
• Experience with Microsoft SQL, SSRS, and Service Broker servers.
• Advanced skills in SQL
• Experience in stored procedures and performance tuning, high concurrency OLTP
• Good verbal and written, and produce technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large data related products and applications
• Experience with cloud data models and solutions
• Expert skill area in any of the base skills listed in Job requirements

Career Path

Sr. Software Architect -> Principal Architect

Competencies

*determined by Talent Management

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.