Principal Data Integration Architect

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Texas Instruments (TI) is looking for a detailed and results-oriented leader to become a part of our global Information Technology team as the Principal Data Integration Architect.

Sales & Marketing Solutions is critical to the success and growth of TI as a company. Our mission in Sales & Marketing Solutions is to deliver a best-in-class and technically credible digital experience at all stages of the customer lifecycle, scale digital selling to the mass market, and accelerate sales and marketing through digitization and personalization.

As the Principal Data Integration Architect within the Digital Experience Solutions group (DES), you will be a technical leader responsible for DES’s data integration architecture strategy for seamless integration of data across external and internal systems promoting data-as-a-service. This role will also be a critical contributor for our muti-year technology transformation journey. This is a hands-on architecture leadership role responsible for defining the data integration strategy and designing integration patterns for internal and external consumption. This role will ensure data is secure, scalable, well-modeled, interoperable, and fit for both operational and analytical use, while enabling domain teams to deliver independently.

The Principal Data Architect influences through technical authority, standards, and partnership, working closely with domain engineering teams, platform teams, analytics, and security.

The ideal candidate will bring in well-rounded expertise around software development, including industry awareness of web technologies, frameworks, secure and scalable architecture, and back-end services. Sharp focus on execution, organization, and efficiency is critical for this role, including decision making around buy vs build, strategic staffing, cost, and skills. The ability to develop and drive technical strategy and lead effectively cross-functionally is critical.

Responsibilities include: 

• Develop and maintain Digital Experience Solution’s enterprise data integration strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry trends.
• Define data architecture vision, strategy and patterns for data ingestion and pipelines, event-driven and streaming patterns and API-based data sharing principles.
• Enable Data-as-a-product thinking within domains with scalable domain data models, clean data contracts and prevent tight coupling and data leakage.
• Lead and evolve the vision, principles and standards to federated delivery teams and define canonical data models and domain-aligned data boundaries which acts as best practices and guardrails for the enterprise. 
• Be the technical mentor for high-performing team of architects and platform engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Provide guidance to ensure consistent architectural practices across portfolios.
• Leverage market trends and knowledge of full stack development architecture to develop and drive technical strategy 
• Build a positive and inclusive work environment with transparency, collaboration, and accountability
• Effectively partner with org and cross-org leaders to strategically drive successful results
• Identify and resolve problems with urgency and proactively solve issues ahead of time
• Ensure ongoing compliance with IT Security policies and procedures and leverage data-driven decision-making