Sr Data Architect, Enterprise Architecture

Pilot Company is an industry-leading network of travel centers with more than 30,000 team members and over 750 retail and fueling locations in 44 states and six Canadian provinces. Our energy and logistics division serves as a top supplier of fuel, employing one of the largest tanker fleets and providing critical services to oil operations in our nation's busiest basins. Pilot Company supports a growing portfolio of brands with expertise in supply chain and retail operations, logistics and transportation, technology and digital innovation, construction, maintenance, human resources, finance, sales and marketing.

Founded in 1958 by Jim A. Haslam II and currently led by CEO Shameek Konar, our founding values, people-first culture and commitment to giving back remains true to us today. Whether we are serving guests, a fellow team member, or a trucking company, we are dedicated to fueling people and keeping North America moving.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

The Enterprise Data Architect will play a crucial role in setting the strategy, and technical direction and driving the adoption of our next-generation data platform. This highly visible position will be front and center as Pilot Company works to continuously modernize its solutions and change the way we think about and apply data in solutions across our enterprise. A successful candidate for this position must possess both a deep and wide background in data technologies spanning solutions built on traditional and non-traditional platforms.

As a key member of the architecture team, the candidate should be comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences.

Specific Responsibilities

• Gain an understanding of our Current State Ecosystem and then define the Target State Data Architecture and Strategy.
• Work as the Technical Subject Matter Expert in partnership with our Product Owners and IT Solution Owners to define the technical strategy for our data-driven products and applications.
• Provide leadership to the project development teams for successful project implementation on the selected data platform.
• Work with our product organization to develop business requirements into architecture and integrate them into our longer-term data platform strategy.
• Define solution-level architecture for project teams including guidance on development tools, target platforms, operations, and security.
• Drive towards adoption of the target state architecture by executing the strategy. Must possess the leadership qualities necessary to drive change and adoption of the strategy.
• Develop Architectures for highly scalable and fault-tolerant applications using Cloud, Relational database technologies, Data Warehousing, Machine Learning, and Modern Big Data computing platforms.
• Provide technical and architectural oversight for systems and projects that are required to be reliable, massively scalable, highly available (99.999% uptime), and maintainable.
• Introduce best practices and principles to enable consistent delivery and enable alignment with long-term direction.
• Lead and mentor other team members. Provide expertise to project team engineers as needed. Foster development best practices within the team.
• Identify and drive process improvements. Facilitate communication with cross-functional groups.
• Stay up to date on new tools & techniques in the data space. Conduct proof of concept activities with key business users in support of advanced use cases.

• BS in Computer Science, Data, Analytics, Mathematics, or related degree from an accredited university required, MS + preferred
• 10+ years of experience architecting, designing, and developing large-scale data solutions utilizing a mixture of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Relational database platforms.
• Direct experience with AWS-based technologies.
• Proven experience leading teams resulting in the successful deployment of applications built on data platforms.
• Candidates having experience with migrating from legacy applications to a solution utilizing Cloud will be preferred.
• Advanced Relational Database Experience (RDBMS) in one or more of the following: Microsoft SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Experience as the technical lead, organizing and mentoring junior and intermediate level developers, DBAs, data engineers, data scientists, and data strategists.
• Experience developing software with Java, Scala, PySpark, and Python.
• Linux experience, files and permissions, job scheduling and more
• Big Data experience, use and set blocks, name nodes, data nodes and more. Tools including, Spark, Kafka, Sqoop and flume, Oozie, Mlflow, prefect, kendro, hive and Tableau

• This position is on-site at our Knoxville, TN location
• Nation-wide Medical Plan/Dental/Vision
• 401(k)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption AssistanceTuition Reimbursement
• Weekly Pay
• Team Member Fuel Discounts
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines