Data Architecture Consultant

KBH Richland Washington Employment Type: Contract

About Us

KBH Industrial is a trusted resource for utilities and channel partners across the energy and industrial sectors providing project management project controls senior consulting and specialized technical support. Founded on the principle of people-first honesty collaboration and safety KBH places skilled professionals in critical individual roles working side by side with client teams to deliver deep expertise and dependable results.

Job Summary

• Be part of a team tasked with designing and implementing a single source of truth data-centric platform that integrates diverse data sources from all phases of a new nuclear build including design licensing procurement construction commissioning and plant operation.
• Incorporate innovative data-driven solutions that streamline workflows enhance collaboration and provide real-time data analytics into the processes for requirements management and traceability records creation and control change management regulatory programs compliance demonstration work control maintenance planning and scheduling and equipment reliability monitoring.
• Communicate the objectives and strategies for the data platform to internal stakeholders and key external partners and collaborate to define roles responsibilities and authorities.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Implement the comprehensive data strategy for a single source of truth data-centric platform.
  
• Implement the Data Governance Framework that establishes effective data architecture and integration principles policies and standards to ensure data quality security and compliance.
• Identify the best solutions for the creation of digital twins for regulatory programs and the digital threads to requirements and plant equipment.
• Evaluate in-use enterprise asset management software and databases to identify opportunities for inclusion and elimination of redundancy.

Required Education and Experience

• Requires a bachelors degree in computer science information technology data science engineering or a related field and five years of experience in a data architecture data management or related role.

Desired Education and Experience

• Experience working with and designing operational change management or records systems.
• Experience integrating data from a variety of disparate systems into a centralized location.
• Knowledge of a wide array of cloud providers SaaS platforms data storage platforms and experience making decisions about which technologies are optimal for a projects needs.
• Experience gathering requirements from stakeholders with varying backgrounds and advising on technical solutions.
• Experience leading and building technical teams communicating stakeholder priorities and producing tasking accordingly and providing regular statuses to stakeholders on project objectives.
• Strong knowledge of various database technologies (e.g. SQL) data integration (ETL/ELT application integration) frameworks and cloud services (e.g. AWS Azure).
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop Spark) and data streaming services (e.g. Kafka).
• Proficient in a programming language such as Python Java or others.
• Expertise in data modeling and data warehousing principles including an understanding of transactional schema normalization/denormalization star schema snowflake schema etc.

Additional Information

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Schedule: 4 days x 10 hours
• Remote work: No
• Per Diem: No
• Expense Eligible: Yes
• Being On Call required for role: No
• Are Certificates Required for this Position No
• Badge Level: Blue Badge

The expected base salary for this position ranges from $55.79 to $135.21/hour

Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills training experience education market factors and where applicable licensure or certifications obtained

Benefits

KBH offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental and vision coverage paid parental leave a 401(k) program and other employee perks to support your health financial security and work-life balance.