| Company | CDI |
| Job Status/Type | Full Time, Employee |
| Occupation | Database Development/Administration |
| Industry | Management Consulting Services |
| Career Level | Experienced (Non-Manager) |
| Reference Code | 15926.749738.78495 |
WHY WAIT?
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?
This may be your lucky day!
It is time for a change, and CDI can help!
We have an immediate need for a Data Architect
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Data Architect is a leadership role requiring the ability to develop an in-depth understanding of a clients business, and the ability to look across an entire organization to develop and promote a strategic vision of the data environment, as well as provide guidance on decisions that could affect current or future direction. This includes: performing data analysis, data modeling, and platform data architecture activities to capture data requirements clearly; organizing the patterns inherent in data; making the complex clear, complete and correct; representing them in a formal and visual way through the conceptual, logical, and physical data models throughout the whole software development and/or implementation lifecycle; and advising development teams and technology management on a wide range of topics, including ecommerce, security, web services, database design and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
COMPENTENCIES
- Ability to set Data Policy and the technical solution for the management, storage, security, navigation, propagation, and transformation of data.
- Specifies recommended DBMS and ETL tools and technologies for structured and unstructured content.
- Translate business requirements and functional requirements into technical solutions for both custom and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components.
- Creates and maintains a Metadata Repository.
- Creates a semantically rich business model of the enterprise problem domain that:
o Is independent of any technology solution
o Defines the Content of the business
o Compiles and maintains the Enterprise Schema across all applications
o Enforces principles of good canonical data design
o Produces UML Models using top-down and bottom-up analysis
- Examines and enforces opportunities to provide data reuse, balancing the issues of centralization and replication.
- Ensures the preservation of strategic data assets as applications and technologies evolve.
- Defines the visual data architecture roadmap seen by key business customers with emphasis on making it easy for users to find the needed data.
- Assist with the database development, implementation, and oversight of application design and coding standards.
- Develop and maintain database architecture artifacts.
- Proactively identify opportunities for database improvements and work with Technology leadership and/or Project Management to introduce improvements into projects.
- Work to encourage the adoption of and responsibility for data architectural choices made.
- Support process initiatives by advising technical feasibility and long term alignment with EPIs internal architectural road map.
- Perform data architecture and code reviews.
- Work with development managers to define metrics that can be used as tools to measure the effectiveness of Data Architecture standard.
- Work with database administrators to develop solutions that meet or exceed performance requirements for high-volume transaction processing and reporting.
- Assist with the root cause analysis (RCA) of database and data related issues.
- Provide timely status updates to project managers and business process owners for assigned deliverables.
- Prepare written and verbal reports and briefings.
- Resolve complex data problems as needed, including hands-on Data Warehouse solutions, BI, ODS design.
- Assist individual development projects as required by deadlines or technological challenges.
EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 5 years of successful data architecture experience, including:
- Requirement Analysis
- Use of object oriented modeling, design, and programming.
- Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Modeling
- Process Modeling, Flowcharts, Forward Engineering, and Reverse-Engineering techniques
- Hands-on ETL tools and techniques
- Experience in Designing RDBMS for both Transactional (OLTP) and Dimensional (OLAP) databases
- BA/BS or equivalent experience preferred.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
TAKE ACTION!
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Apply NOW and join the CDI Team TODAY!!!
