Data & AI Enablement Architect
What You’ll Do
- Partner directly with stakeholders - act as a primary interface between business teams and the data platform, participating in sessions with product managers, marketers, and editors to define data needs.
- Translate stakeholder analysis needs/queries into clean, reusable dbt models.
- Operationalize and steward core business metrics through models and the semantic layer that powers reporting, experimentation, and downstream tools.
- Help stakeholders effectively adopt and use data tools, and enable self-service AI-enabled conversational analytics through tools like Hex.
- Set standards for modeling, documentation, reuse across the D&I team.
- Evolve the data platform, and in particular, strengthen data quality monitoring for prioritized models and data sets.
- Provide technical direction and mentoring for data engineers and analysts.
- Ensure reliable data pipelines (both via Fivetran and custom interfaces).
- Contribute to an inclusive and positive work environment
About Us
The Philadelphia Inquirer is the media brand of record in Philadelphia and the region, and the largest news media organization in the state of Pennsylvania. A daily habit for almost 200 years, The Inquirer delivers Pulitzer Prize-winning news, sports, food, and lifestyle journalism multi-platform: Inquirer.com, Inquirer newspaper, e-editions, apps, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, and live events, generating 15M monthly impressions. Locally owned and headquartered in Philadelphia, no media brand is more deeply connected to the city or better understands what drives it. Our influence also extends across key drive markets, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York, as well as to Philadelphia expats who live across the country and root for the Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, Flyers, and the Union. The Inquirer is an equal opportunity employer for all regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, and any other category protected by federal, state and/or local law.