Senior Data Architect

26 May 2024

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3 days onsite; 2 days remote.The client is seeking a qualified a Data Architect Master Data Expert. This position is responsible for managing the conversion activities from a legacy system (VSAM and SQL) to a new cloud-based solution using SQL. This will entail overseeing the development of a legacy data dictionary, mapping the legacy data to the new solution, and developing extracts and procedures to prepare the data for migration. Qualifications & Expertise:
  • Provides vision and strategy for all data management initiatives as data strategist and advisor, steward for data quality, advocate for data sharing, and developer of new data products.
  • Ensures data is available, reliable, consistent, accessible, secure, and timely to support the mission and activities of the agency.
  • Establishes and maintains data policies and standards to improve how the agency collects, uses, secures, and publishes data.
  • Works with executives, IT developers, and data users to achieve data accuracy and process requirements for all internal and external customers.
  • Through supervision of business intelligence analyst(s):
  • Develops dashboards and reporting capabilities that measure agency performance (via targets and metrics) and support day-to-day monitoring of business processes;
  • Monitor, identify, and prioritize operational risk factors; and
  • Recommends data-driven strategies to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Participates in business process management activities that create, modify, and retire data.
  • Represents the agency on citywide data management efforts and vendor relationships.
  • Establishes data archiving strategies across the agency.
  • Establishes an internal data council group that provides guidelines and recommendations on business requirements, practices, and compliance to ensure organization business strategy, regulatory compliance, and other requirements are met.
  • Educates agency members on data management concepts, appropriate usage of data, data quality concepts, agency decision-support concepts, data vendor capabilities, definition and appropriateness of data management, rules on data access, and other data-related matters.
  • Establishes and maintains optimal coordination, communication, and liaison structure among key system offices, institutions, and external stakeholders.

Skill Required
  • 16 Years Experience aligning IT strategy and planning with company's business goals.
  • 16 Years Experience in enterprise practices and standards, cloud technologies, and platform integration
  • 16 Years Technical or solution architecture experience with projects using Agile and other iterative approaches.
  • 16+ years of IT experience with applied knowledge of data management, including data management within COTS and legacy applications
  • Master’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years operations or operational system maintenance experience.
  • 12 Years Experience ensuring sound integration, data, security, & business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform/ capability lifecycle
  • 12 Years Experience planning, design, deployment assessment and evolution of an IT Architecture containing so called Intelligence components (Data Population Architecture, Data Storage/Data Management, and Data Access Architecture)
  • 12 Years Experience Support the process of determining the technical architecture, the integration architecture, data architecture, and data strategy respectively
  • 14 Years Experience with SQL Server, data warehouses, and statistical data presentation
  • 12 Years Experience and technical knowledge in latest information technology tools that collect, track, secure, and display data.
  • 12 Years Experience and technical knowledge including commercially available, government supplied, and custom-developed applications
  • 8 Years Experience Strong project management skills to effectively meet strategic and tactical goals including planning and decision-making, identifying priorities,
  • 8 Years Experience Strong project management skills bringing projects to successful completion in a timely manner, and maintaining a focus on high standards and quality
  • 12 Years Experience Exhibit strong knowledge of large databases, data warehousing environments and be familiar with full life cycle software development processes
  • 12 Years Experience Exhibit strong knowledge of large databases as they pertain to data movement and data integration