Job Summary:
The Principal Data Architect will be responsible for improving UDX data across the enterprise, covering multiple platforms and enterprise applications used by park, hotel, and restaurant guests and visitors, as well as internal employees. The role focuses on addressing enterprise data challenges related to compliance, data quality and integrity, data access rights, data security, data monetization, and AI readiness. The resource will own data architecture solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, define proposed solutions, and lead architectural decisions from initial requirements through implementation planning.
Key Responsibilities:
• Serve as the Compliance Data Architect, with a focus on COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act).
• Serve as the Customer 360 Data Architect.
• Serve as the Individual Rights Request Data Architect.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Engineers, QA teams, Enterprise Architects, Solutions teams, and other stakeholders to investigate data issues, clarify requirements, and define proposed architectural solutions.
• Lead daily discussions and take ownership of data architecture solutions.
• Ask detailed questions during discussions to identify requirements, dependencies, and potential challenges.
• Evaluate proposed solutions and challenge approaches that do not support optimal architectural outcomes.
• Present and document proposed solutions for implementation teams.
• Own and maintain architectural diagrams throughout the entire solution lifecycle.
• Address enterprise data challenges related to compliance, data quality, data integrity, access rights, security, monetization, and AI readiness.
• Coordinate across technical and product teams to drive data architecture plans forward.
• Take ownership of the complete data architecture process, from requirement clarification through solution definition and implementation planning.
Required Qualifications:
• Deep knowledge of enterprise-level data systems within large organizations, preferably with global operations.
• Experience working with customer-facing data, including transaction data.
• Experience working with a variety of database technologies and cloud platforms.
• Ability to clearly define, develop, and document enterprise data architecture diagrams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture principles, data governance, and data management.
• Ability to investigate complex data issues, clarify business and technical requirements, and define effective architectural solutions.
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills, with the ability to challenge assumptions and drive optimal technical solutions.
• Experience collaborating across technical, product, and architecture teams.
• Ability to take ownership of architectural initiatives and drive plans through completion.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience with global enterprise data environments and customer-facing platforms.
• Experience in compliance data architecture, Customer 360 solutions, and individual rights request management.
• Experience supporting data readiness initiatives for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
