IT Data Architect

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This role guides the development and management of a portfolio of solutions in the data, reporting, predictive intelligence, and data science domains. Solutions include projects, products, systems, shared infrastructure services and shared application services. The data architect provides the necessary thought leadership, analysis and design tasks to develop technology solutions that meet business needs and align with architectural governance and security standards.

This includes the technical design, process design, architectural information model, and day-to-day contributing to data management and data governance practices as an influencer and stakeholder.

The role is expected to be hands-on – while you won’t necessarily be writing a lot of production code as part of project delivery, a successful candidate will be working closely with engineering staff and architects to directly develop PoC solutions and will be as comfortable working deep in the details as at the strategic level.

Duties & Responsibilities Quality Attribute assessment of delivered solutions

Application availability of delivered solutions

Production incident rate of delivered solutions

Percent of business data modelled and made available on the data platform

Business value created through optimization, simplification, and/or rationalization of platforms and tools

Platform Health/ Vulnerability Assessments Provide architectural direction and guidance to data engineering teams

Translate business problems, requests, and/or requirements into defined data solutions

Document the data platform to effectively capture and communicate how business capabilities are realized or enabled through technology and process.

Develop strategies, roadmaps, principles, standards, and best practices for the data platform. Develop PoCs as required.

Support engineering teams in executing against strategies, roadmaps, principles, standards, and best practices for the data platform.

Provide coaching, mentoring and guidance for engineering and delivery teams

Analyze industry, technology, and market trends to introduce best practice frameworks/capability models tailored to control costs, provide higher quality and/or increase predictability of service delivery

Candidate Requirements Education Bachelor ’s degree in Computer Science or related field, 7 years of experience in an architectural role or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience

Seven (7) years experience in data architecture or a related technical field with significant design contribution

Strong knowledge of data ecosystems, Big Data patterns, Cloud Service Providers, business intelligence solutions, data integration patterns, common data warehousing patterns, retrospective reporting, predictive analytics, and exploratory analytics patterns.

Strong knowledge of modern data and platform delivery practices in one or more recognized paradigms (data fabric, data mesh, data warehouse, data lake house, data lake, etc.)Expert knowledge across a broad set of data delivery and data hosting platforms. (RDBMS, No

SQL tools, data warehouses, data query tools, data visualization tools, persistent data models, integration platforms, etc.)Expert understanding of data engineering fundamentals, implementation of modern data platforms, and data modelling characteristics

Familiarity with of information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, and one or more architectural frameworks

Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, or equivalent. Slight preference for GCP, but a track…