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What You Will Do
Data Architect
Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the data assets of an organization are supported by its information technology Architecture.
• Recommends strategies based on changing business needs for a supported area.
• Advises management on approaches to optimize business success.
• Evaluates applicability of leading edge technologies and uses information to significantly influence future business strategy.
• Analyzes complex business and competitive issues and discerns the implications for systems support.
• Identifies, defines, directs, and performs project issue analysis to resolve issues, including analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of proposed data solutions.
• Designs projects with broad implication for the business and/or the future architecture, successfully addressing cross-technology and cross-platform issues.
• Selects tools and methodologies for projects.
• Develops partnerships with senior users to understand business needs and define future data requirements.
• Able to effectively communicate highly technical information to numerous audiences, including senior management, the user community, and less-experienced staff.
• Leads the development of effective networks of internal and external customers, suppliers, the technical community and consultants.
• Contributes to the organization's planning for the future of the data model and data architecture.
• Leads the continual redesign of the organization's data model and/or transition to a common model.
• Proposes and leads projects required to support the development or the organization's data infrastructure needs and provides intelligence on advances in database technologies.
• Defines and implements an integrated data architecture to support end-to-end acquisition and engagement journeys to help data analytics and data harmonization.
• Identifies, defines, directs, and performs project issue analysis to resolve issues, including analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of proposed data solutions.
• Designs projects with broad implication for the business and/or the future architecture, successfully addressing cross-technology and cross-platform issues.
• Responsible for overall direction, oversight, and successful delivery of data warehouse design and implementation
• Understands a modern MPP data warehouse and data lake
• Leverage experience in architecting data warehouse solutions, including a strong background in Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Governance
• Develop data pipeline and streaming integrations with application databases, API's, and vendors
• Transform complex customer business requirements into effective, efficient, and maintainable enterprise-level solutions

Technical and General Skills

• Minimum of 2 years experience in (Conceptual, Logical, Physical) Data Modeling
• Understanding of microservices framework
• Minimum of 8 years working with relational databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle
• 3+ years working with cloud technologies - CloudSQL, Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent
• Expert level of SQL knowledge
• Good professional experience with architecting data warehouses in Redshift/BigQuery or comparable technologies
• Master Data Management, ERP, Salesforce experience preferred
• Strong in building data lifecycle solutions including Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Marts, ODS, ELT and ETL, Stream/real-time/Batch processing, CDC, etc.
• Strong understanding on API Domain Driven Design, Service Orchestration, Microservices concepts, REST and SOAP services etc.
• Understanding of BI/Reporting, Advanced Analytics, Data Science, AI/ML and Self-Service solutions through to warehouse design, sourcing and logical data models
• Strong communication, presentation and written skills
• Superior critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or related discipline

Ensures that the data assets of an organization are supported by its information technology architecture.

• Recommend strategies based on changing business needs for supported area.
• Advise management on approaches to optimize business success.
• Evaluate applicability of leading edge technologies and uses information to significantly influence future business strategy.
• Analyze complex business and competitive issues and discerns the implications for systems support.
• Identify, define, direct, and perform project issue analysis to resolve issues, including analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of proposed data solutions.
• Design projects with broad implication for the business and/or the future architecture, successfully addressing cross-technology and cross-platform issues.
• Select tools and methodologies for projects.
  Negotiate terms and conditions with vendors.
• Effectively communicate highly technical information to numerous audiences, including senior management, the user community, and less-experienced staff.
• Develop partnerships with senior users to understand business needs and define future data requirements.

What You Will Need
Education:
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in a specialty field.
Work Experience:
• 3 years of experience preferred.
Additional Preferences
No additional preferences.
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