Data Architect

Purpose Statement:  Design Enterprise-wide data and integration solutions: Understand the Business and IT objectives and strategies; working with the other IT functions, translates those needs into end to end solutions (people, process, and technology)

Leverage architecture design standards and tools as part of solution design and documentation. Require a good understanding of the business context, processes, data and integrations.

Key Job Accountabilities:

• Leverage architecture and design tools, patterns, standards and best practices while designing and documenting data and integration solutions.
• Supports projects or change initiatives through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles. Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
• Collaborates at different levels with technical architects for specific technical components, with Enterprise Architects for the overall strategic alignment and with the project teams and business stakeholders through the requirements definition and development
• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
  - Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability. Determines and documents architecturally significant decisions.
• SFIA: 4 (Enable)
  Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.

Education/Experience Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required; a Master’s degree is preferred. (Computer Science / IT)
• 6 years of related experience is required; 8 or more years of related experience is preferred. (Examples: Cloud data platforms: Big Query, Data Lakes, Boomi)
• 2 years of IT Architecture experience
• Fluent English reading, writing, and speaking skills

Other Qualifications:  

• Autonomy - 5
• Influence - 5
• Complexity - 5
• Knowledge - 5
• Business skills - 5
• Core: System Design - 5
• Core: Specialist Advice - 5
• Core: Emerging tech monitoring - 5
• Optional: Network Design – 5 ((TA - Network)
• Optional: Software Design – 5 (TA - Software)
• Optional: Information Security -5 (TA – Security)
• Optional: Hardware Design – 4 (TA - Infrastructure)
• Optional: User Experience Design – 5 (TA - Software)
• Optional: Business Intelligence – 5 (TA – BI)

This document does not represent a contract of employment and is not intended to capture every possible assignment the incumbent could be asked to perform.