Application Architect
Company: Fisher Investments
Location: Plano
Posted on: April 17, 2024
Job Description:
It's an exciting time to join Fisher Investments; we're
investing in the future of our firm's technology and information
security. Our business is growing internationally, which emphasizes
the need to build an unparalleled team that promotes future global
growth through strategic solutions and progress. We are important
to supporting our firm's diverse businesses, and we're excited to
continue solidifying that foundation as we add more experienced
technologists to our Technology team.
We are looking for an Application Development Technical Lead to
plan the cloud architecture and solution design of enterprise data
warehouses/data marts and analytics as part of a collection of
systems in a large technology ecosystem. You will report to the
Application Development Team Leader.
The Opportunity:
As a Application Development Technical Lead, you will perform
design and administration of our Azure data and analytics platform
to ensure smooth system operations and be the guide for
architectural principles and standards. As a technical expert for
our data and analytics ecosystem, you will support Fisher
Investments business line reporting teams and data delivery teams.
This hands-on role will provide direction to other developers of
data warehouse workloads and data related projects.
You will help align department-wide solutions to Fisher's
enterprise priorities and survey the technology landscape and guide
the evolution of current environment to support future capabilities
and requirements. You will be a part of the team that plans the
technology to ensure capacity and scalability as demand and usage
evolves.
The Day-to-Day:
- Work with business and technology partners to analyze how the
data warehouse, analytics and application will meet our goals
- Evaluate all proposed requests to determine fit with data
warehouse, analytics and application solution architecture
- Oversee data warehouse and analytics technical platform on
Azure, from implementation to enhancements and ongoing
operations
- Develop and coordinate cloud data and application
solutions/projects across diverse groups and areas including
enterprise architecture, application development, identity and
access management, network and data management
- Provide technical direction and guidance to database and
application developers
- Develop cloud security and access control solution/policy, data
and BI standards, guidelines and best practice for business groups
and technical teams
- Perform maintenance and troubleshooting activities for data
warehouse, BI platform and other data projects and resolve
issues
- Review system application logs and identify potential issues
and improvements to ensure smooth operations
- Perform capacity planning, cloud cost analysis and optimization
and provide recommendations to management
- Provide after-hour system and application support
- Develop multiple work plans for projects and prepare
appropriate status reports and submit them to management
Your Qualifications:
- 5+ years' of experience as a System Architect or Application
Architect, focusing on data and cloud applications with direct
experience with application development, data warehouse and BI
design, implementation, and operation
- Experience with cloud data warehouse and analytics
technologies, specifically Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure
Data Lake Storage, Power BI, and other Azure data solutions
- Knowledge or experience with infrastructure (operating system
and networking) and cloud administration and automation such as
Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- Knowledge of DevOps in application development such as GitHub
Actions, PowerShell
- Experience with application development using Microsoft and
cloud technologies (such as SQL, Azure, C#, Python
- Knowledge or experience with infrastructure (operating system
and networking) and cloud administration
- Experience with Agile methodologies in a cloud, application,
database, data warehousing and BI space
- BS or equivalent in Computer Science or related field or a
combination of technical skills, cloud, operating system,
networking, security, data application, data modeling and BI
background
Why Fisher Investments:
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We
take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and
development framework customized for every employee, and our Great
Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher
purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional
benefits like:
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your
qualifying dependents
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO*, plus 10 paid holidays (*17 days of PTO and 3
days of sick time for California employees)
- Family Support programs including 8 weeks Paid Primary
Caregiver leave, adoption assistance and back-up child care
- $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming
benefit
- Opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home
program. This program is subject to change. Based on tenure and
performance eligibility, you will have the opportunity to work from
home up to 75 days per year
FISHER INVESTMENTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Keywords: Fisher Investments, Frisco , Application Architect, Other , Plano, Texas
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