Principal Data Lifecycle Product Architect - Oakland, United States - PG&E Corporation

PG&E Corporation

Verified Company

Oakland, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Requisition ID # 157875

Job Category:
Information Technology

Job Level:
Manager/Principal

Business Unit:
Information Technology

Work Type:
Hybrid

Job Location:
Oakland

Department Overview

The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) team enables data governance, quality, and metadata management capabilities to maximize the use and ensure the trustworthiness of PG&E's critical data assets.

Position Summary

Are you passionate about using data to change the world? Do you evangelize making data trustworthy? Do you love getting your hands dirty with the technical tooling that enables an organization to publish, search, and understand its data as well as spotlight that data's fit for use? Are you the sort of person who is technical craftsperson in one setting, collaborative leader in another, and the customer's best friend somewhere else? Do you get up in the morning excited to solve problems? If you not only answered "yes" to these questions, but your heart picked up its pace with excitement, stop skimming job descriptions for a couple minutes and read this one top to bottom because we have an opportunity for you.

The Data Lifecycle Product Architect is the sales engineer and solution architect who partners with the Data Lifecycle Product Owner on the implementation, operations, and support of enterprise data management tooling.

This person builds customer relationships by solving problems, designs the technical roadmap for data management software, provides leadership and guidance to technically build the right tool, and inspects and tests at a detailed level to ensure the tool was built right.

This person knows how to use the tool to provide value to the business by technically implementing the tool to its maximum benefit.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting.

This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.

The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum:
$147,000

Bay Area Maximum:
$251,000

Job Responsibilities

Now that we have your attention, let's take a look at some specific opportunities to further convince you that this is the best work to put your mind to.

You are the customer's best friend
You build relationships with data stewards, data scientists, data analysts, data analysts, and data decision makers throughout the company and understand their needs, concerns, and value opportunities

You listen and know what the customer wants: Understand, clarify, and scope business problems, breaking them down into technical requirements that can be satisfied with data management tooling
You figure out how to use data management tooling to solve the hard problems and teach the customer along the way

You ensure customer satisfaction:
Validate data management tooling configurations and data solutions with a fine-tooth comb so that you find the issues before the customer does
You are a collaborative leader
You build relationships with data engineers, data architects, and engineering managers and talk to them about business problems in a language they understand

You prioritize:
Build the technical roadmap, ensuring that the activities of the technical teams achieve the right value for the right people at the right time; you understand that is better to do the most important thing well than to work on all the things and finish nothing

You ask the right question:
Gently but firmly hold technical teams accountable to delivery on business value

You are a human router:
Communicate superbly, ensuring information moves between technical and business teams efficiently and is understood throughout the value delivery chain
You are a technical craftsperson

You lead by drawing:
Draw the architectural diagrams that bring clarity and simplicity to complex technical problems and provide direction for both business stakeholders and technical implementers

You master observability:
Build the monitoring system to proactively understand the state of data at any given time with the capability to pinpoint problems and their cause early and efficiently

You analyze, visualize, and demonstrate:
Build analytics and dashboards to find root cause, demonstrate trends, and showcase the quality of data

Qualifications:

Are you excited yet? So are we Let's check a couple minimum qualifications:
B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent work experience in computer science, information technology, data science, engineering, or other relevant field
7+ years of experience in data management, data governance, data quality, metadata management, data security, and/or designing and implementing functional systems and data in a structured process

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