Data Solution Architect Job Description

Data Solution Architect Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Data Solution Architect to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Evangelize the value of Pivotal products in architectures and deployments;
  • Ensure that logical and physical data models support the analytic needs of the business;
  • Define the overall BI data architecture, including ETL processes, ODS, EDW, data marts and data lakes;
  • Develop a practical line of service roadmap for BI reporting and analytics platform;
  • Provide BI technical and architectural guidance to projects and teams, ensuring that new initiatives enable effective data reporting;
  • Collaborate with key business users to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery;
  • Develop strategies for workflow, rules, integration management and governance;
  • Stay current on technologies, technology trends and directions, and best practices. Evaluate potential technologies for use within the enterprise;
  • Develop guiding principles, reference architectures, technology landscapes, standards, best practices and roadmaps that support business priorities;
  • Ensure reference architectures, technology stacks, standards and processes meet security and regulatory requirements;
  • Ensure effective communication of user requirements;
  • Provide technical leadership regarding integration impact across business, information, application, technical and security architectures;
  • Collaborate with data stewards in establishing and maintaining resilient, reusable standardized data patterns;
  • Participate in high-level project estimation, system design, modeling, and solution design reviews;
  • Recommend appropriate technologies to support the implementation of the BI roadmap including Microsoft PowerBI and SAP Business Objects.

Requirements:

  • Experience maturing SDLC principles, processes and practices;
  • Experience with enterprise workflow, rules and orchestration technologies;
  • Experience partnering with end users to gather requirements and build technical solutions from concept to implementation;
  • Understanding of SaaS and off-premise integration architectures;
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related field;
  • Ability to facilitate meetings and delegate responsibilities;
  • Experience in the design and building of enterprise data warehouses;
  • Excellent experience in developing and understanding of data modeling, SQL and ETL;
  • 8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, application integration architecture, software development, or engineering.