Data Architect

We are looking for a Data Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Architect
Term: 12 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto or Winnipeg – once or twice a week on-site
Job ID number: C1240

Brief Description of Duties:

• Data Center move: the client is moving out of the Winnipeg Data Center and into Google GCP and Azure depending on the system. I need an architect to support the Data Office’s part of that move which will be move our Oracle and Ab Initio ETL solutions from WDC to GCP. The move will be “mostly” like for like and the requirements of the architect will be to work with our engineering, platform and application teams to ensure that we have properly sized, configured and shifted the applications over without breaking things or causing any significant performance delays.
• Supporting the client’s Data Office as part of a legacy modernization project that will re-platform our book of record system that manages our Advisor Channel with SuccessFactors. A significant part of our Data Platform is wired to this solution, and we have to ensure that the Data Platform components are identified, documented and appropriate changes made. The Architect would be responsible to identifying and driving work in this initiative.
• Report to VP for the content and quality of the deliverables and into our delivery organization for time, scope, and budget aspects
• Work with engineering, platform and application teams to ensure that we have properly sized, configured and shifted the applications over without breaking things or causing any significant performance delays.
• Supporting the client’s Data Office as part of a legacy modernization project that will re-platform our book of record system that manages our Advisor Channel with SuccessFactors. A significant part of our Data Platform is wired to this solution, and we have to ensure that the Data Platform components are identified, documented and appropriate changes made. The Architect would be responsible to identifying and driving work in this initiative.

Must haves: 

• Extensive Data Architect experience
• Extensive data modeling experience and use with data modeling tools uch as Powerdesigner, ERWIN, etc
• Data center migration to cloud experience (GCP/Azure)
• Oracle and Ab Initio ETL solutions from WDC to GCP
• Successfactors
• Strong SQL skills and data analysis experience
• Excellent communication
• Legacy modernization project experience