Systems Architect

About the role

Randstad Digital is hiring and we're looking for someone like YOU to join our team! If you are seeking a new opportunity, looking to grow in your career, or you know someone who is - we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and reporting solutions.
• Build executive, operational, and strategic reporting that enables data-driven decision making.
• Develop complex data models, semantic layers, KPIs, calculations, and DAX measures.
• Create interactive visualizations highlighting trends, risks, performance, and opportunities.
• Optimize dashboard performance, refresh schedules, and user experience.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into reporting solutions.
• Establish reporting standards, governance, and documentation.
• Design, build, and optimize data ingestion pipelines into Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Develop ETL/ELT processes to ingest data from enterprise applications, APIs, operational systems, and third-party sources.
• Work with BigQuery and cloud-native services to support scalable analytics solutions.
• Support data transformation, data quality validation, and reconciliation processes.
• Develop automated ingestion and monitoring capabilities to support operational and analytical use cases.
• Optimize data processing and storage architectures for performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and platform teams to align with cloud standards and best practices.
• Partner with business teams to define, document, and operationalize KPI frameworks.
• Develop executive scorecards and operational performance reporting.
• Create leading and lagging indicators to measure: Productivity, Quality, Throughput, Cycle Time, SLA Performance, Exception Rates, Process Efficiency, Operational Risk.
• Design KPI governance processes, metric definitions, thresholds, and reporting standards.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly business performance reporting packages.
• Develop and maintain Statistical Process Control reporting for Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) and operational process management programs.
• Design and implement SPC visualizations and performance monitoring capabilities including: X-Bar Charts, Moving Range Charts, P-Charts, C-Charts, U-Charts, Control Limit Monitoring, Process Capability Analysis, Performance Trend Analysis, Outlier Detection, Variance Analysis.
• Monitor process stability and identify common cause and special cause variation.
• Establish automated alerting and threshold monitoring based on control limits and performance targets.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives through data-driven root cause analysis and trend identification.
• Partner with process owners and control teams to evaluate control effectiveness and operational health.
• Perform trend analysis, forecasting, statistical analysis, and operational assessments.
• Identify emerging risks, process bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
• Develop executive narratives and data-driven recommendations for leadership teams.
• Support process intelligence, observability, automation, AI, and analytics initiatives.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and delivery reviews.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing Power BI solutions.
• 3+ years of experience working within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Advanced experience with Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, DAX, Power Query (M), SQL, Data Modeling, BigQuery, ETL/ELT Development, Data Integration and Transformation.
• Experience building executive dashboards and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Robust understanding of dimensional modeling and business intelligence best practices.
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and enterprise environments.
• Robust analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Human-in-the-Loop (HITL), AI Operations, Process Intelligence, Automation, or Digital Transformation programs.
• Experience implementing Statistical Process Control (SPC) methodologies.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, or Continuous Improvement frameworks.
• Experience developing KPI scorecards and operational health dashboards.
• Proficiency with: Python, APIs, Git-based source control, Agile/Scrum methodologies, Data Governance and Metadata Management.
• Experience with process mining, observability, automation, or workflow analytics platforms.

Skills

• Financial services or highly regulated industry experience preferred.
• Agile, Variance Analysis, APIs, AI, large-scale datasets, BigQuery, Reporting Packages, Analytics, data-driven, Data Governance, ingestion pipelines, Data Integration, semantic layers, scalable data pipelines, data ingestion pipelines, data engineering solutions, data processing, data transformation, data-driven decision making, dimensional modeling, enterprise applications, executive dashboards, ETL, Git, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), data engineering, Metadata Management, operational systems, performance reporting, performance monitoring, Power BI, Power BI Reporting, Power BI dashboards, Power BI Desktop, Power Query, Python, SQL, sprint planning, Agile/Scrum, cloud-native services, source control, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Statistical Process Control, SPC, storage architectures, analytical, attention to detail, communication skills, leadership, problem-solving, Self-motivated, working independently, Advanced Analytics, analytics initiatives, automated, automation, backlog grooming, reconciliation processes, enterprise analytics, business intelligence, operational performance, Process Efficiency, continuous improvement, Business Review, calculations, assessments, Control Chart, control limits, Cycle Time, Dashboard Development, dashboards, complex data models, Data Modeling, data quality, enterprise reporting, Digital Transformation, enterprise architecture, executive decision-making, forecasting, GCP Data, governance, governance processes, KPI, KPIs, KPI Development, KPI reporting, Financial services, statistical analysis, Lean, Throughput, Operational Excellence, Operational Risk, operationalize, Outlier Detection, Performance Management, Performance Analytics, Process Capability, process control, process mining, gather requirements, use cases, risks, root cause analysis, scalability, schedules, Six Sigma, stakeholder management, statistical analytics, Technical Documentation, emerging risks, Trend Analysis, trend identification, user experience, visualizations.

Pay & Schedule

• Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
• Job type: Contract
• Salary: $64.54 - 69.54 per hour
• Work hours: 8am to 5pm
• Education: Bachelors