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# Advisory Architect

- **Company:** WEST Inc
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $171,300.0 - $201,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Databases, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Mart, Data Migration, Data Systems, Data Transport Utility, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, NoSQL, Oracle (Applications), Power BI, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Tableau (Software), Time Tracking Software, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Data Strategy, Data Lakes, Information Technology, AWS Glue, Data Analytics, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Looker Analytics, Databricks
- **Published:** June 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/92d8818e-efaa-4e8e-af0c-87fa6bf29e26

## About the Role

* Master's/Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent relevant work experience
 * Minimum 6-8+ years of hands-on professional development experience in data modeling and data design and must have hands on experience implementing solutions
 * Consulting firm/industry or start-up experience preferred
 * Experience with the technical programming to access and extract data from diverse sources residing on multiple platforms and implement large, sophisticated data models by combining, synthesizing, and structuring data
 * Experience performing complex data migration to and from disparate data systems/platforms as well as to/from the cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
 * Good knowledge of standard concepts, best practices, and procedures within a data warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) environment
 * Provide Points of View (POV) and recommendations for cloud-native, industry-leading products along with emerging, start-up offerings
 * including proposal development, estimation, and day-to-day project management (time tracking, budgeting, status reporting, etc.)
 * Strong sense of urgency with comfortability delivering solutions in fast-paced, dynamic environments
 * Excellent critical thinking, leadership, communication, and project management skills
 * Willingness to travel for out-of-town client engagements (up to 30-50% travel)
 * Proven success achieving in-year revenue expectations
 * A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
 * Due to the nature of the position, we cannot provide any assistance for immigration-related employment benefits (including H-1B, TN, OPT, CPT, or STEM OPT) for workers.

## Description

* Collaborate with cross functional teams, Transaction Services' consultants from other competencies (i.e., Software Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics) in support of holistic, tech due diligence assessments for client M&A activity and identify growth and remediation opportunities through analysis of existing data and analytics systems, business processes and data monetization opportunities.
 * Assess underlying technology/libraries/tooling landscape within enterprise organizations to make recommendations to strategic investors on improving market readiness, achieving long-term scalability, and/or reducing operational cost
 * Formulate strategic investment summaries, key risk mitigation analyses, and long-term technology-based strategy for both pre-close and post-close projects
 * Establish the linkage between business strategy and data strategy (and vice versa) to deliver impactful outcomes
 * Executive presence with the ability to present, interpret, and recommend results of work including the development of new concepts, major advances in the field, new major applications, and progress on all product programs.
 * Be a thought leader, create white papers and represent the organization at various industry conferences and events
 * Provide leadership and mentoring to data engineers/architects/BI analysts and practitioners
 * Be the visible face of the data engineering team to internal partners, external customers and prospects, and the data architect community at large
 * Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the data platform engineering (ingestion through insights), data strategy, data modeling initiatives across the department's big data projects.
 * Keep pulse of the latest development trends in cloud (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, etc), data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake etc), databases (RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, etc.), reporting (PowerBI, Quicksight, etc.), ETL/ELT, data warehousing, data hubs, data lakes, data marts etc. and various tools, products, and use cases.
 * Expertise in data warehousing approaches (Kimball, Inmon), normalized and de-normalized data models including dimensional schemas (star, snowflake)
 * Strong understanding of streaming (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis), batch& workflow (e.g. Airflow, AWS Glue, CTTRL-M) data transport technologies
 * Experience with Data Visualization tools including PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, etc
 * Drive new business with existing clients by identifying unique opportunities and liaising to appropriate client leads, account managers, or business developers


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