Lead Data Architect

Role Description

The Lead Data Architect will be responsible for end-to-end vision on how a logical design will translate to one or more data repositories and how the data will flow through the stages involved. The architect will need to be able to address issues of data migration-validation, clean-up, and mapping-and will need to understand the importance of data dictionaries.

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience
• Partner with the IT/BI team and cross functionally within the organization to provide insight and technology recommendations that result in enterprise solutions that solve critical business problems
• Develop and maintain data structures which draw information from multiple sources of data such as corporate databases, corporate data warehouses and field operational data stores
• Design, deliver, and document multi-platform architecture with a focus on architectural standards, growth, performance, flexibility, reliability, scalability and security
• Identify architectural risks and plans to mitigate--quickly troubleshoot problems with data generation and reporting to correct problems with a minimum of downtime in the process
• Work with vendors to develop metadata structures for two-way data communications which allow interchange between existing and new data sources
• Recommend and implement new ways of exchanging data with corporate or field customers using network or web based reports, forms or files
• Generate new data products for data licensing which fit client requirements
• Manage the transfer from prototype to scheduled report
• Oversee the use of corporate data to create reports in Excel, Crystal Reports and other reporting tools
• Identify desktop tools which will improve reporting or data gathering ability. Evaluate and recommend purchase if necessary.
• Quickly learn new tools (desktop or external) which enhance the department's ability to gather, process, or report data. Integrate these tools with existing structures to improve information flow
• Use knowledge of business processes to work with personnel in Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operational disciplines. Be able to quickly understand their problems and devise solutions.
• Design and help develop ETL, replication schemes, and query optimization techniques that support highly-varied (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured) and high-velocity (near real-time) data processing and delivery
• Develop standards and methodologies for benchmarking, performance, evaluation, testing, data security and data privacy
• Perform impact analysis, performance tuning, and capacity planning for the data warehouse and its infrastructure as source systems are added and new integration business rules and logic are introduced
• Provide recommendations, technical direction and leadership for different technologies as part of the overall architecture

Qualifications

• Advanced Knowledge of Tables, Queries and Views in MS SQL and Oracle.
• Knowledge of Relational Data Modeling, Database design, and analysis of data requirements and sources
• Experience in architecting and building procedures, functions, views, and triggers with SQL relational databases
• Proficient in complex database concepts and effectively employ different database design techniques
• Ability to program in TS-SQL and VBA
• Ability to use MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PP, Access, Visio)

Company Description

NAVTECH INC is an E-Verified Company located at 1600 Golf Road, Suite 1200, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008.