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Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

As a member of K&L Gates' IT Department, the Data System Architect designs data structures and data infrastructure for authorized data extraction and organization. This role involves identifying internal and external data sources, collaborating with departments to determine data usage needs, and creating infrastructure, pipelines, and transformations that supports business objectives.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

The Data System Architect will report to the Data Scientist and work closely with the Global Information Technology Teams. Establishing relationships with other departments, IT peers, IT architects, directors, executives, and external vendors is necessary. Additionally, the Data System Architect will work with cross-functional teams from Business Development, Finance, HR, Reporting, and Records to ensure alignment and integration of data initiatives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Facilitates collaboration with data stakeholders to understand the Firm’s data sources and uses this information to enhance the firm’s data strategy as specified in the firm's roadmap for data initiatives.
• Serves as a member of a high-performing data team to support and enhance business decision capabilities.
• Develops, implements and maintains data architectures, standards, and data-driven strategies that enables the Firm to enhance business operations by leveraging data to improve decision making, to enrich AI solutions, and enhance reporting capabilities.
• Lead the architectural design, development, prototyping, and implementation of scalable, reliable, robust, and secure data pipelines.
• Participate and manage requirements gathering process – collect, review, analyze, evaluate, estimate, prioritize and document business requirements and needs for data in supported initiatives.
• Innovation involves integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into the development process while considering potential future applications of AI in product design.
• Collaborate with other architects and data teams to ensure consistency and interoperability across the entire technology landscape.
• Conduct regular performance assessments to identify performance and process bottlenecks in data applications / code / SaaS / workflow solutions and implement optimizations to enhance system efficiency.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of architectural and data designs, decisions, and guidelines.
• Ensure data science outputs and solutions are best of breed and effective for the day-to-day business operations.
• Design and implement data insight products and services that can be operationalized at scale, enabling other teams and departments to leverage them effectively.
• Collaborate with the other elements of the firm’s data function, including data discovery, knowledge, and data services to drive the firm’s data initiatives.
• Serves as a solutions expert by developing, implementing, supporting, troubleshooting, and updating / modifying applications, software, code, workflow, and pipelines.
• Confirms and implements solutions that prioritize system stability, reliability, and scalability, aligned with the firm's goals over individual client or user preferences.
• Stays informed about industry trends and emerging technologies, incorporating them into the architectural vision of applications / SaaS / code / workflow solutions.
• Designs the data platform with the goal of creating a unified data ecosystem by including the pertinent data patterns and points from firm systems.
• Facilitates the enforcement of the firm’s data governance and security policies by designing systems and procedures to ensure enterprise-level compliance with data strategy.
• Works with the quality assurance team to assist and define testing efforts, including creating test plans / scripts and conducting functional testing. Also, help coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), basic Quality Assurance (QA) testing, and end-user testing of business functions and applications.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

EXPERIENCE SKILLS REQUIRED

ADDITIONAL ABILITIES REQUIRED

Compensation Salary $124,000 - $240,000

The compensation salary for this position will be determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to prior experience, relevant expertise, current business needs, and market factors.

In accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered.

ABOUT THE FIRM

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents in more than 40 offices. We have experienced dramatic growth in the past decade and now rank among the largest U.S. based law firms in the world. We take pride in constantly striving for innovation, imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. We come up with big ideas and then roll up our sleeves to get the job done, guiding our clients through their most complex issues in a variety of industry sectors and across multiple regions of the world.

The industry recognition the firm has garnered emanates from the foundation of a global community aligned on behalf of our clients. The people at K&L Gates are committed to working together to create a legacy for each other, the firm, our clients, and the communities in which we serve. We thrive in an inclusive and socially conscious environment that embraces diversity and takes a holistic approach to the career evolution of all our professionals.