Role overview

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

College or Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field of study.
Experience designing, planning, implementing and supporting enterprise solution databases in an environment equivalent in size and complexity to the organization. (8+ years).
Experience documenting enterprise solution of legacy databases by recording the 'as built' implementations after multiple iterations in an environment equivalent in size and complexity to the organization. (8+ years).
Experience in performing threat and risk assessments and presenting recommendations for risk mitigation to senior management. (3+ years).
Experience with enterprise architecture principles and associated best practices, methods, standards, tools, policies, and processes. (8+ years).
Experience working as a Data Architect designing and implementing enterprise database solutions within an organization of equivalent size and complexity to the organization. (8+ years).
Experience providing leadership, planning, estimating, and presentations of ideas and solutions.

Responsibilities:

Facilitate the effective definition and management of the data architecture.
Encourage data models and practices that reduce data redundancy by promoting reuse/sharing.
Identify and document enterprise data requirements.
Encourage practices that improve data quality.
Develop and lead the transition plans that will guide current data to its 'ideal future state'.
Lead or assist in communication activities surrounding the enterprise architecture data architecture.
Contribute to the definition and development of the enterprise architecture framework.
Respond to requests for extensions to the scope of the data architecture.
Provide information, advice, guidance, and consultancy to initiatives/projects that are defining or aligning to the data architecture.
Establish and participate in design reviews, regular or ad-hoc architectural reviews.
Provide support to other members of the enterprise architecture team as required.

Nice to Have:

Certification in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
Ability to learn quickly, problem solve/troubleshoot, work independently and in a team.
Ability to manage conflict.
Ability to manage stress.
Ability to work with minimum mentoring.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact and collaborate professionally with a diverse group.
Experience designing and implementing enterprise architecture database plans and models that help align an organization's data, information or technology with its required business capabilities in a large enterprise IT environment equivalent in size and complexity to the organization. (5+ years).
Experience in using a tool for architecture models such as: PowerDesigner, ER Studio, Er-win, BPwin, Rational Rose. (2+ years).
Experience project managing application development projects using Agile sprint development. (3+ years).
Experience with cloud computing or big data platforms and infrastructure. (5+ years).
Experience with enterprise business intelligence and performance management products. Specifically Cognos BI Suite, Microsoft SQL Server Services, MS Power BI or MicroStrategy. (5+ years).
Experience working as a Data Architect in an enterprise IT environment equivalent in size and complexity to the organization. (5+ years).
Experience working with developing SQL databases. (5+ years).
Experience working with implementing a SQL data warehouse. (5+ years).
Experience working with querying data with Transact-SQL. (5+ years).

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