Solution Architect, Sr

Job Title:  Solution Architect, Sr PS Job Title: Solution Architect, Sr Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid  Legal Entity:  Entergy Services, LLC   ***The preferred location for position is New Orleans, other locations will be considered ***     JOB SUMMARY / PURPOSE The Senior Solution Architect is an integral member of the product delivery teams, driving end-to-end technical designs for multiple projects to deliver analytic products to business customers. The Senior Solution Architect interacts with multiple customer stakeholders, understands their business and functional requirements and works with the product team to design and deliver technical solutions, leveraging the data analytics platform where possible. The Senior Solution Architect’s key knowledge set includes system agile development life cycle, integration architectures, technology tools, database architectures, data management principles, data modelling techniques and methodologies, communication and problem solving. The Senior Solution Architect will design large scale, enterprise wide data processing solutions, database schemas and interfaces to relational and non-relational databases. Additionally, the Senior Solution Architect will design small, temporary architectural solutions to support product delivery schedules should the enterprise data analytics platform be unavailable at the time the product must be delivered to a business customer.   The Senior Solution Architect will act as a member of product teams, ensuring product team members understand the Senior Solution Architectures being designed and helps guide and oversee the implementation of solution architectures. The Senior Solution Architect will work closely with the IT department to ensure solution architectures will successfully operate in current technology environments.   The Senior Solution Architect will work with other team members on the data analytics platform team to create plans and strategies for adopting new tools, technologies, and alternative solution architectures including leveraging the cloud.   JOB DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Design conceptual data architectures solution for data-centric analytics projects. 2. Analyze data sources, design and evaluate feasible technical solutions to be implemented by data engineers. The solutions might include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation and configuration management. 3. Understand the complexity of data and design systems and models to handle different data sources/formats, which includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured, as well as stream processing. 4. Use data mapping, data mining and data transformational analysis tools to design and develop technical solution architectures. 5. Prepare and maintain accurate solution design and architectural documentations for delivery, platform and operations team. 6. Play a contributing role in the development and update of enterprise data architectural strategies, patterns, standards, processes and tools as new/unique data sources, use cases and requirements come up. 7. Support and adhere to the development of data management policies, standards and procedures. 8. Define integrated views of data drawing together data from across the enterprise, both in real-time and as extracts. 9. Collaborate with platform and IT to as need to finalize the right solution including pattern and architecture for the analytics use cases. 10. Address governance and security challenges associated with solutions. 11. Support the delivery team engineers in tuning queries for performance and scalability, help them package deployments and collaborate with IT to migrate code between Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Production environments. 12. Support test automation, troubleshooting ETL job functionality, validating data, as well as create test data and table structures through use of SQL.