Data Scientist/ArchitectHybrid

Title: Data Scientist/Architect - Principal 

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 2 months contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Develop efficient and scalable database architectures aligned to business requirements
• Create logical and physical data models, defining data relationships and rules
• Ensure data models support current and anticipated analytics use cases
• Optimize data models for performance, scalability and maintainability
• Evaluate and recommend optimal DBMS technologies and tools
• Implement database performance improvement strategies
• Migration: Review current Snowflake-based product layouts, recommend migration strategies, schema conversion, performance tuning, and ensure data consistency and backward compatibility strategies.
• Integrate security best practices into database architecture
• Collaborate with stakeholders across technology, analytics and business teams

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of experience designing enterprise database solutions
• Expertise with Python, SQL, Databricks and Snowflake
• Experience setting up Databricks environments and developing data pipelines
• Cluster setup (Schemas, Stages, Volumes, etc)
• Delta sharing (CSV, tableau, SaaS solutions)
• Unity Catalog policies
• RBAC
• Data Governance & Compliance policies
• Data Lineage
• Different Teams
• Service Principals
• CI-CD
• Strong data modeling and query optimization skills
• Design efficient Data models
• Apply Medallion Architecture
• Query optimization
• Workflow orchestration (Brickflow, Notebooks).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively
• Excellent communication and documentation skills