Azure Architect & Developer

Title: Azure Architect & Developer
Type: Full Time
Function: Marketing
Division: Motorparts
Location: Southfield, MI, United States (HQ)
 

Job Description:

The Azure Architect & Developer is critical to supporting analytics activities in category management, marketing, product management and sales. This role will help lead analytics development for internal and external/customer stakeholders.  The Azure Architect & Developer will also enable further analytics capability development, working with adjacent marketing teams and data science positions.  This position is independent, highly visible and positioned to benefit from an imaginative leader.  The candidate must be comfortable working directly with stakeholders and with large datasets. The role requires strong Power BI & very good understand of Azure, problem solving, and communication skills.

​​ Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver data-driven insights and ‘tell the story’ That enables strategic and operational decisions
• Develop reporting for business consumption using primarily Power BI.
• Monitor ongoing data transformation for accuracy and process improvement
• Coordinate user testing for acceptance of BI solutions.
• Interface with various internal teams to evaluate BI support requests and to proactively propose solutions
• Work directly with customers to enhance and expand upon existing analytics services delivered via Power BI
• Azure data architects to optimize data flows and establish new pipelines for external data sources
• Provide consultancy to business units for detailed information on data availability, location, lineage, and quality.
• Perform data analysis, profiling, and quality assessment to ensure the integrity of business data to necessary levels.
• Work with adjacent technical leads and architects to implement new standards, new technology, and tactical solutions driving the business strategy forward.
• Manage internal and external data access and utilization reporting
• Explore options for new data insight distribution based on complex data sets with weekly cadence
• Normalize, filter, and blend extracted datasets with internal datasets
• Explore and advise on Data Science opportunities
• Ability to manipulate and manage larger data sets
  
  

Required Skills and Experience:

• Looking for 3-5 years in these skills below:
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Databricks
  • Visual studio code
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Power BI architecture experience

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Looking for 1-3 years in two or more of these skills below:
  • DAX programing language
  • DevOps
  • Graphic design / data visualization
  • Data governance experience
  • Advance MS Excel skills

• Strong project management skills—scope, requirement gathering, prioritization, organization
• Desire to learn and solve problems
• Strong documentation skills—technical writing
• Extreme degree of detail orientation, precision, and accuracy

Education and Training

Bachelor or Master in the area below

• • MIS, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent degree