Principal Data Architect

About Us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What You'll Do

The Enterprise Architecture team is focused on providing solutions to enable an effective software engineering workforce that can scale to the business needs. This includes exploring how the business needs map to the application portfolio, business processes, APIs, and data elements across the organization. As a member of this team, you will build up a vast knowledge in software development, cloud application engineering, automation, and container orchestration. Our ideal candidate values communication, learning, adaptability, creativity, and ingenuity. They also enjoy working on challenging technical issues and use creative, innovative techniques to develop and automate solutions. This team is focused on providing our executive and business leadership with visibility into how the software organization is functioning and what opportunities lie to transform the business. In this position you will be an integral part of the Enterprise Architecture team and make meaningful impacts in our journey towards digital transformation.

The day-to-day

A Strong Data-Model and High-Quality Data are pre-requisites to provide better insights and enable solid data-driven decision making. This is also key to take advantage of various technological advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Your responsibilities will involve build out of data models for various aspects of our enterprise in conjunction with domain experts. Examples include but are not limited to Network, Capacity, Finance, Business Support Systems etc. Responsibilities also include working with software product teams to improve data quality across the organization.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science & Applications, Computer Science and Computer & Systems Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science & Mathematics, Computer Science & Network Security and Math & Computer Science, and/or a related field
• Solid understanding of Data Architecture and Data Engineering principles
• Experience building out data models
• Experience performing data analysis and presenting data in easy to comprehend manner.
• Experience in working with Relational Databases, NoSQL, Large Scale Data technologies (Kafka, Big Query, Snowflake etc)
• Experience with digital transformation across multiple cloud platforms like AWS and GCP.
• Experience in modernizing data platforms especially in GCP is highly preferred.
• Partner with members of Data Platform team and others to build out Data Catalog and map to the data model
• Detail Oriented to ensure that the catalog represents quality data
• Solid communication skills and ability to work on a distributed team
• Tenacity to remain focused on the mission and overcome obstacles
• Ability to perform hands-on work with development teams and guide them to building necessary data models.
• Experience setting up governance structure and changing the organization culture by influence
  
  
  

What Will Help You On The Job

• Experience with Cloud Technologies: AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, etc.
• Expertise in GCP data services like Cloud Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Dataflow, BigQuery, and related technologies preferred.
• Experience with Airflow, DBT and SQL.
• Experience with Open-source software like Logstash, ELK stack, Telegraf, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry is a plus.
• Passionate to deliver solutions that improve developer experience and promote API-first principles and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture and related principles
  
  
  

EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.