Our valued client is looking for a Senior Data Architect
Our client is seeking a Senior Data Architect to provide tactical advice on Data and analytics, Data Management, Master Data, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Power Bi, Information Governance.
% remote, initial 8-month contract
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate alternative tech solutions to address business issues.
- Analyze functional requirements to map out information, procedures, and decision flows.
- Attend stakeholder meetings and prepare relevant documentation.
- Securely maintain all documentation.
- Contribute to discussion documents, proposals, reports, and briefing materials; make presentations; and develop strategic recommendations for senior management.
- Document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application sub-systems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems.
- Define input/output sources, plan for the technical design phase, and obtain system proposal approval.
- Design, implement, improve, and document the next-gen data and analytic architecture at FCAC, including the Enterprise Data Warehouse and other D&A components.
- Develop technical architectures, frameworks, and strategies to meet business and application needs.
- Ensure integration of all tech solutions.
- Identify and document system-specific standards for data and analytics development, documentation, testing, and application sub-systems.
- Identify solution-driving policies and requirements.
- Collaborate with Business and IM/IT teams to implement the D&A architecture and its components.
- Monitor industry trends to align solutions with government and industry tech directions.
- Implement Business Intelligence development standards and best practices.
- Advise on optimizing Information Architecture, Metadata, Reference, and Master Data Modeling.
- Advise on standardization techniques for enterprise reporting initiatives.
- Advise on data quality solution outputs.
- Provide expertise in identifying project risks, issues, challenges, and lessons learned from previous Data and analytics, Data Management, Information Governance, and Master Data Management projects.
- Provide tactical advice on Data and analytics, Data Management, Master Data, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Power Bi, Information Governance.
- Lead the data and analytic team in implementing next-gen data and analytic capacities.
- Provide support to employees of the data management team and develop training for delivery to other employees in the organization.
Must Have Skills:
Minimum of ten years’ experience within the last fifteen years in designing and implementing Data Architectures, Data Modeling, and Data Analysis and Profiling working on IM/IT projects.
Minimum of one year’s experience within the last five years in designing and implementing Data Architectures, Data Modeling, and Data Analysis and Profiling, Data Pipelines (ETL) in a Microsoft Azure Cloud environment.
Minimum of ten years’ experience within the last fifteen years performing the following tasks:
- Data architecture;
- Data development and design;
- Data quality management;
- Reference and master data management;
- Data governance;
- Data integration;
Holds a post-secondary diploma/degree in the field of computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, commerce or IT.
Nice to Have Skills:
Holds Microsoft certifications from the following product categories (valid and with proof):
- Azure Data Factory
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft Purview
- SQL Server