Data & Analytics Architect

Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service.

At Flexera, we're on a mission to empower global enterprises by transforming IT insights into decisive actions. We are looking for an architect/principal engineer with deep expertise in analytics, including data modeling and semantic modeling, to take our world-class reference data in Technopedia to the next level, through deeper insights, richer features and more data sets. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of providing technical leadership, deep technical expertise and delivering big data solutions through data lakehouse and large scale-processing technologies.

As an architect/principal engineer, you will be a key player in architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining our common ontology and data models, transformations, and analytics capabilities for our industry-leading reference data. You will collaborate closely with other architects and guide, influence and help engineering teams to ensure seamless integration with other components of our system.

What you'll do:

• Architect, design and develop our big data platform, processing pipelines and content reference data.
• Drive innovation, enabling capabilities to enhance speed to innovation for our analytics, AI/ML, and product development teams.
• Define data models and semantic models for our wide range of data sets to provide insights and optimized user experiences.
• Provide guidance, influence and help engineering teams to deliver deep insights from our large and broad data sets.
• Continuously enhance your technical skills and mentor other engineers.
• Promote a high-standard engineering culture and operational excellence within the team.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ensure the platform meets user needs.
• Define project requirements, technical artifacts, and designs, driving consensus across Product Management, architects, and engineering teams.
• Balance priorities between new feature development, architectural enhancements, and technical debt reduction for a sustainable and scalable platform.
• Champion continuous improvement in product quality, security, and performance standards within the development team.

You'll be expected to have:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 15 years relevant experience in software development, including 8+ years of expertise in data modeling, semantic modeling, and data visualization.
• Strong expertise in other big data technologies, such as metadata catalogs, data lineage, and orchestration.
• Strong technical expertise in distributed systems, big data, and cloud computing.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Good understanding of streaming technologies, including Kafka, with experience in defining message schemas and data models.
• Outstanding communication skills and emotional intelligence to collaborate effectively with teams across the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a collaborative team environment.
• Prior experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers.

At Flexera, we foster a fun and engaged hybrid working environment where collaboration and innovation thrive. We value diversity and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups in technology to apply. Join our team to not only contribute to a world-class global product but also to grow in your career. At Flexera, we encourage continuous learning and provide opportunities for professional development. Flexera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.