Data Architect - Senior

• Location: Remote, Alberta
• Type: Fixed Term/Contract
• Job #5211

Data Architect – Senior (12 month contract)
Location: Remotely
Staffing Placement Opportunity

Duties:

General Responsibilities (any or all):

– Lead discussions, meetings and workshops, as needed, with leaders/staff, partners, stakeholders, end-users, etc. to understand business direction and enterprise data/information technology requirements and their value

– Design and deliver enterprise and solution technology architecture related to data platforms.

– Assess technical requirements for variety of business initiatives, and provide architecture expertise, consultation, and recommendation to colleagues and clients (e.g., decision-makers, project teams and stakeholders), as directed by management.

– Model Proof of Concept solutions in an agile environment, including integration and orchestration approaches to operate data products and services effectively and efficiently with available resources.

– Provide guidelines for technology adoption and implementation (i.e., cloud migration, application modernization, data modernization).

– Review solutions and designs of peers, including data models and pipeline design, and provide appropriate feedback including performance optimization.

– Provide thought leadership, and drive architecture and the design of Data Management & Analytics solutions.

– Understand business strategies and priorities and translate those into data technology architecture requirements that create high-value data product solutions.

– Plan, design and deliver digitalized, modernized and rationalized information management technology solutions that meet business needs in the context of the GoA data strategy, including Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, critical data identification & classification, security and access, data governance etc.

– Evaluate and recommend new technologies and applications to improve existing data product management, optimize costs, and reduce development time.

– Support the development and adoption of best practices in data management, which includes data governance, data sharing, data integration, data quality, common data and standardized methodologies.

– Guide consultation with clients and staff, as needed, on data services and provide leadership and direction on integration and pipeline design.

– Coach, mentor, and empower staff to use creative thinking and develop innovative solutions.

– Support a client centric and service-oriented spirit and delivery approach across the team.

– Support the cultural shift towards data as a strategic asset.

– Foster data solution innovation as well as continuous improvement.

– Ensure effective stakeholder engagement within the areas of responsibility ensuring an effective solution balance of enterprise and client centric needs.

– Initiate and maintain effective working relationships and partnerships with various internal and external stakeholders across the organization.

Mandatory Skills:

Education

Education – Degree, Diploma, Certification (Senior DA) – Yes

Work Experience

Duration – Experience dealing with clients and explaining complex data principles in a thoughtful manner – 3 years

Duration – Experience defining technical architecture, data integration, supporting software development, software configuration and deployment process – 5 years

Duration – Experience designing, planning, implementing, supporting data platforms and data solutions for large projects involving multiply data sources in an architect capacity – 5 years

Duration – Experience in multiple architecture domains e.g. business, application, technology, data information, security, and privacy – 5 years

Duration – Experience modelling complex business processes and translating them into understandable IT constructs – 5 years

Note; This job opportunity is with a Microserve client.