Business Systems Architect
The Job:
The Business Systems Architect will help shape the future of Tango Card, providing leadership around Tango Card’s enterprise data platform and business systems as well as identification of opportunities for process improvement. With an extensive functional and technical understanding of data architecture and business applications, you will collaborate across the organization to analyze problems, build a sustainable foundation, and drive progress on major initiatives for your fellow Tangocardians. This is a high impact role on a growing Business Systems team dedicated by mission to seeing the big picture, breaking down silos, and asking questions to provide the right solution – and continue developing upon it in an agile environment. We need someone passionate about modern data platforms like Snowflake who shares our vision for a consumer model to democratize data and empower analytics across the organization while working with a best-of-breed tech stack to execute and deliver.
Reports to: Director, Business Systems
As an Business Systems Architect at Tango Card, you will:
- Drive business systems data architecture design and articulate solutions options to colleagues
- Take our data platform to the next level by crafting an Enterprise Data Hub with consumer model
- Administer Snowflake to serve stakeholder and system requirements (raw, transformed; operational, analytical)
- Design and manage a data governance framework to guarantee definitions and ensure continuity
- Build and scale data pipelines from our source applications and databases into Snowflake
- Validate and test ETL/ELT processes, monitoring performance and tuning as necessary
- Oversee data modeling across our business systems and beyond to establish review processes
- Design, build, and maintain system integrations to automate and scale our data and business systems
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Business Intelligence, Security, and others to inform strategy and design
- Extract, scrub, quality control, normalize, and model data, setting and following guidelines
- Complete assigned tickets including functional/technical development, testing, review, UAT, and deployment while communicating progress and blockers
- Promote best practices and help guide the team toward continuous improvement
- Understand data technology trends and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business needs
- Mentor team members to support their understanding of the architecture and aid in their technical development
To be effective in our Business Systems Architect role, you must have:
- 5+ years in Enterprise/Data Architecture, Business Systems, and/or Solutions Consulting
- Significant hands-on experience with current data platforms & databases (eg: Snowflake, Redshift, or Postgres)
- Robust background designing, building, and scaling data pipelines and enterprise ETL/ELT for data warehousing
- Deep understanding of – and passion for – data modeling and structures
- Expert proficiency with SQL and query languages
- Excellent communication skills with all levels of business and a customer service mindset
Our ideal Business Systems Data Architect at Tango Card will have most of the following skills and experience:
- Experience with key enterprise applications, such as Salesforce (CRM) and NetSuite (ERP)
- Understanding of programming languages and concepts, eg: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Java
- Technical skills and background in at least several of the following areas:
- Enterprise Data Hub Architecture
- Microservices or API-based Integration Architecture
- Event-driven Architecture
- Automation & Integration Platforms (eg: Workato, Tray.io, Boomi)
- Modern Data Pipeline Management Tools (eg: Fivetran)
- Process Mining, Process Discovery, Value Stream Mapping
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, and/or other cloud computing services
- Ability to prioritize tasks of varying and/or similar priority, think independently, and take the initiative
Please note: visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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- Competitive compensation package (money isn’t everything, but it helps)
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits (100% employer paid premium)
- Unlimited PTO and a generous holiday schedule
- 401(k) matching and equity opportunities (401(k) is a 100% match of up to 6%)
- Home-Office grant for ensuring a great WFH environment during social-distancing measures
- Award-winning culture that fosters autonomy, creativity, inclusion, transparency, and ownership
- Continued education and self-growth opportunities through Udemy
- Virtual fitness benefits through Classpass
- Dog-friendly offices
What We’re Up to at Tango Card
Tango Card helps thousands of companies reach their goals by making rewards and incentives easy to send and awesome to receive. Our customers genuinely love working with us, and it shows: We’ve made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the last five years. We’re backed by a stellar group of investors, including the private equity firm FTV (which led a $35M growth equity round in 2018), Fyrfly Venture Partners, Floodgate Capital, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, SWaN & Legend partners, and WTI.
Why Work for Us
Tango Card is proud to have been rated one of the Best Companies to work for by Built In Seattle. We’re on an incredible path to be the #1 rewards provider, and we are hiring amazing people across all areas of the business to accomplish our vision.
We foster an office culture of autonomy and transparency with flexible working hours and slim team structures. We provide our team members with what they need to be successful—whether that’s the latest technology at their fingertips or empowering them to attend conferences about industry trends. We’re committed to promoting mentorship and career development opportunities for our team members. Our physical offices are designed for productivity and comfort with standing desks, comfortable pod chairs, and a very dog-friendly environment. If working from home is more your thing, many roles offer the choice to establish a remote office. With a company like Tango Card that’s experiencing high growth year over year, career opportunities abound and you have the chance to create, own, and grow your role.
COVID-19 Update: To learn more about how Tango Card has adapted during these times, take a look at our blog post, How Tango Card is Changing in the Face of COVID-19, by our CEO, David Leeds.
Tango Card is proud to extend its Voluntary WA State Paid Family Medical Leave Plan to employees across all Tango Card locations.
Tango Card is an equitable and equal opportunity employer; we’re strong because we’re diverse and prioritize inclusive practices. All applicants will be recruited and considered for employment regardless of their social identities, including but not limited to race, gender, color, religion, belief, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, and other protected classes. We thrive in the areas of recruiting and hiring when we have a growing awareness of the challenges faced by underrepresented candidates during the application and hiring process. We encourage all candidates to apply for roles they feel they have the skills to fulfill or a willingness to learn.