Data Architect

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Type of Employment: Contact
Title: Data Architect
Term: 11-month contract – 37.25 hours
Location: Toronto or Ottawa
Job ID number: C1098

Brief description of duties:

the client’s hub will implement an overarching architecture that holistically integrates, transforms and shares data. This architecture will address client’s current data management problems and has the following goals:

• increase client’s data handling capacity by orders of magnitude (provide more data to consumers)
• make data accessible, shareable and understandable (democratize data and increase value extraction)
• provide data security and data access auditing
• support data governance (automated data quality, data transformation, data assets, etc.)
• support standardization (data concepts, master data, aggregation, trending, etc.)
• streamline and automate data flows and business processes
• ability to adjust system capacity to meet variable demand
• support remarkable customer experiences with the clients data

The vision of a Data Hub is based on client’s many years of experience combined with modern data management paradigms. Data Hub is an architectural ecosystem based on “Big Data”, Cloud and BI/Data visualization technologies that enables the client to solidify its position in today’s data-first world.

MUST haves:

• As a member of the Applied Architecture group and working for the Data Hub project as a Data Architect, provides data architecture direction and delivers required architectural artifacts;
• Works closely with various internal business and technical stakeholders to gather their input on data concepts and solutions;
• Works with the Business areas to understand their needs and translate those needs into the appropriate conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Implement the Data Assets in the Hub Data Lake/Warehouse environment (S3, Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Glue, Athena, EMR) and Informatica Data Management platform (BDM, BDQ, EDC, Axon);
• Develop data architectural standards, design patterns and schemas and conduct reviews to ensure their implementation.
• Review existing data architectures, provide feedback and work on relevant Reference Architectures.
• Delivers data architecture solutions for various aspects such as data versioning, data integrations etc.
• Contribute to the development of the overall architecture of the Data Hub platform and supporting technologies including data management platforms, information access, and health information applications.
• Provide subject matter expertise and technical leadership on the data architecture discipline. Ensures that data solutions exhibit high levels of performance, consistency, security, scalability, redundancy, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability;
• Ensures interoperability, performance and scalability, reliability and availability, data consistency, cost effectiveness, and technological risks are all addressed in the data architecture;
• Ensure solutions are documented and communicated effectively for their intended audiences;
• Support redesign and optimize Data Pipeline based on AWS Big Data technologies.
• Support Reference Implementation for optimized Data Pipeline
• Leverages the clients strategic plan, goals, objectives, policies and procedures in creation of enterprise data architecture deliverables;