Product Data Architect - Xray

About our products

Xray, a market-leading test management solution for Jira users, offers an intuitive and comprehensive test management experience that users can customize to meet their specific QA needs. Xporter is an application that enables teams to easily report and export information from Jira into various formats for convenient information sharing.

About the role

As the Product Data Architect, you provide development manager caliber technical leadership and architectural direction for multiple and diverse software development teams, building software products across a growing portfolio of successful software companies. You are a key member of the core team tasked with determining the technologies, environments, and other components used during the software development process to achieve defined business goals.

The Product Data Architect owns all technical matters related to his/her assigned products, focusing strongly on ETL processes, data flow management, and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. This ownership includes designing, developing, and maintaining robust data pipelines and workflows to support data-driven decision-making across the organization, orchestrating high-quality, fast-cycle software implementations; maintaining, guiding and improving the architectural integrity and evolution of the products; and ensuring best practices and architectural guidelines are followed for the products. In doing this, the Product Architect continually contributes to and leads process improvement activities aligned with achieving high-quality, on-time software product releases that serve our customers and company.

In this role, there are three primary functional areas with a breakdown of duties as follows:

Data Flow Management & BI

• Design and implement ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into data warehouses
• Build and manage data pipelines that ensure efficient data flow and data integration across platforms
• Optimize data architecture and workflows for scalability and performance
• Monitor and troubleshoot data issues to ensure data accuracy and reliability
• Ensure data governance and security protocols are followed

Architecture & Development

• Assess and shepherd the technical delivery of high-quality products to ensure adherence with best practices, documented process, and delivery commitments
• Estimate software development requirements and effort, propose alternatives, and prioritize development tasks for a given area
• Collaborate with the Product Management Team and other stakeholders, contributing to the product roadmap, product requirements, and product release schedule
• Ensure requirements from product stakeholders are satisfied, complete and testable

Engineering Leadership & Mentoring:

• Serve as the Development Manager, guiding geographically diverse software development partner teams in developing the best technical designs and implementation approaches
• Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to executive leadership, including capturing and escalating issues as necessary for resolution and awareness while driving each to a successful resolution with personal direction, urgency and leadership
• Participate in and initiate activities to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence
• Foster proactive collaboration among technical teams where systems integration is required 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related field
• 5+ years of experience building successful production software systems 
• 3+ years of proven experience as a Data Engineer, with a focus on ETL, data pipelines, and BI.
• Hands-on experience with ETL tools (e.g., dbtCore, Airbyte, Apache NiFi, Airflow) and BI platforms such as Apache Superset
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and relational databases such as AWS RDS
• Experience with Xray and Xporter products is highly desirable 
• Deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping high-quality software on time
• Ability to take raw product requirements and develop software architectures and designs to bring products to life
• Good knowledge of the tools of the trade, including a variety of programming languages and key technologies (e.g. MongoDB, React, Node.js)
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus
• Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Highly organized in a manner to achieve effective communication and drive successful results from self and team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to explain technical issues to non-technical English-speaking individuals 
• Desire to be challenged and achieve results in a successful technical and business environment 
   

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

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