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Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises. 

Kemper is seeking a Data Architect to join our team. You will work as part of a distributed team and with Infrastructure, Enterprise Data Services and Application Development teams to coordinate the creation, enrichment, and movement of data throughout the enterprise. Your central responsibility as an architect will be improving the consistency, timeliness, quality, security, and delivery of data as part of Kemper's Data Governance framework. In addition, the Architect must streamline data flows and optimize cost management in a hybrid cloud environment. Your duties may include assessing architectural models and supervising data migrations across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and on premises systems, as well as data platform selection and, on-boarding of data management solutions that meet the technical and operational needs of the company. 

To succeed in this role, you should know how to examine new and legacy requirements and define cost effective patterns to be implemented by other teams. You must then be able to represent required patterns during implementation projects. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in cloud (Snowflake, AWS and Azure) architectural analysis and management. 

Responsibilities

• Define architectural standards and guidelines for data products and processes. Assess and document when and how to use existing and newly architected producers and consumers, the technologies to be used for various purposes, and models of selected entities and processes. The guidelines should encourage reuse of existing data products, as well as address issues of security, timeliness, and quality. 
• Work with Information & Insights, Data Governance, Business Data Stewards, and Implementation teams to define standard and ad-hoc data products and data product sets. 
• Work with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Implementation teams to define the transformation of data products throughout hybrid cloud environments assuring that both functional and non-functional requirements are addressed. This includes the ownership, frequency of movement, the source and destination of each step, how the data is transformed as it moves, and any aggregation or calculations. 
• Working with Data Governance and project teams to model and map data sources, including descriptions of the business meaning of the data, its uses, its quality, the applications that maintain it and the technologies in which it is stored. Documentation of a data source must describe the semantics of the data so that the occasional subtle differences in meaning are understood.  
• Defining integrative views of data to draw together data from across the enterprise. Some views will use data stores of extracted data and others will bring together data in near real time. Solutions must consider data currency, availability, response times and data volumes, etc. 
• Working with modeling and storage teams to define Conceptual, Logical and Physical data views limiting technical debt as data flows through transformations. 
• Investigating and leading participation in POCs of emerging technologies and practices. 
• Leveraging and evolving existing [core] data products and patterns. 
• Communicate and lead understanding of data architectural services across the enterprise. 
• Ensure a focus on data quality by working effectively with data and system stewards. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience. 
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar architect role. 
• Demonstrable knowledge of Secure DevOps and SDLC processes. 
• Must have AWS or Azure experience.
• Experience with Data Vault 2 required. Snowflake a plus.
• Erwin or ER Studio skills.
• Familiarity of system concepts and tools within an enterprise architecture framework. Including Cataloging, MDM, RDM, Data Lakes, Storage Patterns, etc. 
• Excellent organizational and analytical abilities. 
• Outstanding problem solver. 
• Good written and verbal communication skills. 
• This is a hybrid position with 2 days in the office per week.

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.  
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. 

Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email.  Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates.  If you receive such a message, delete it.  

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