Data Platform Analyst – Senior

Job Description

Description:

Project Name: Federated Data Ecosystem (FDE)

Scope:

The Data Centre of Excellence requires the support of contingent labour in order to deliver on data strategy roadmap items.

Government of Alberta’s (GoA) data strategy implementation leverages a cloud-based Federated Data Ecosystem approach to organizing and managing GoA data assets. The goal of the Federated Data Ecosystem is to make data available to GoA stakeholders in support of critical analytical, policy, and legislative functions, processes, and activities.

This resource will be required to support operationalization of Federated Data Ecosystem and related solution components to deliver data products and services.

Reporting to the Manager, Data Services the Storage Analyst is responsible for providing architectural and development expertise, leadership in the design, development, administration, monitoring, maintenance, and customer support for various data platforms within the Data Centre of Excellence. The Storage Analyst has an in-depth understanding of data operation best practices as well as expertise with the tools needed to debug and diagnose issues.

Duties:

The primary responsibilities for Data Platform Analyst are (but not limited to):

• Lead system implementation and design and architecture for the development, enhancements, and maintenance of Cloud Data Platforms (Azure, Snowflake. Databricks) and other key data platforms (Open Government portal, Cloudera, etc.) to ensure the system design meets business requirements.

• Support the design and build scalable and reliable data infrastructure, tooling, CI/CD pipelines to improve GoA’s data product delivery, analytics and data science teams using cloud (Azure/ AWS/ GCP) and big data technologies.

• Deliver data platform management and administration, in alignment with the organization’s strategic goals, to manage, govern, and integrate data within government.

• Configure and tune cloud-based tools to manage cost, security, and compliance for the environments. Working across a myriad of technology stacks in Azure, Cloudera, Snowflake etc.

• Provide services to support data privacy and security in adherence to enterprise policies (access control, security policies across platforms, etc.).

• Collaboration with other Team members to improve and optimize Cloud and On-premise Infrastructure systems in non-functional perspective: scalability, reliability, performance, capacity, availability and disaster recovery.

• Contribute to defining and establishing an Enterprise Data Strategy in GoA and be actively involved in the design of modern data platform features and functionalities, improving scalability and maintainability.

• Support projects to address the implementation of data product delivery components of the Data Strategy.

Working Hours:

• Standard Hours of work are 08:15 – 16:30 Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the Province

• Work must be done from within Canada, due to network and data security issues.

• It is anticipated the role will be 100% remote, however in the event of an onsite meeting, the GoA does not pay for travel to attend on-site meetings, nor any expenses related to relocation, commuting, housing/accommodation, food/drink.

Notes on Location:

Resource will work remotely, though must be available for onsite meetings when required.

Scoring Methodology:

Financial/Pricing: 20%

Resource Qualifications: 20%

Interview Process: 60%

SUBMISSION MUST INCLUDE:

• RESUME

• ALL REQUIRED EXPERIENCE MUST BE DESCRIBED IN RESUME UNDER THE JOB/PROJECT WHERE EXPERIENCE WAS ATTAINED.

• EACH JOB/PROJECT MUST CONTAIN THE TERM OF THE JOB/PROJECT IN THE FORMAT MMM/YYYY to MMM/YYYY.

• RESOURCE REFERENCES

o Three references, for whom similar work has been performed, must be provided. The most recent reference should be listed first. Reference checks may or may not be completed to assist with scoring of the proposed resource.

Managers Notes:

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, IT or related field of study.

Broad experience of one or more of the OS platforms that connect to the shared storage environment (Windows, Linux, VMWare, AIX, HPUX, Solaris).

Able to participate in a 7/24/365 on call rotation.

Work Experience

Automate routine tasks using Azure Automation, Terrafom, PowerShell, GitHub/GitHub Actions, Ansible, and other scripting tools.

Collaborate with data architects, engineers and analysts to design and optimize cloud architecture and services.

Experience designing, deploying, managing and monitoring Azure cloud infrastructure, including performance, troubleshooting, security controls and cost management.

Experience with data governance, data privacy, and compliance regulations.

-Experience in performing regular backups and ensuring disaster recovery

– Experience in the Government of Alberta Domain environment or an environment of… Experience in the Government of Alberta Domain environment or an environment of equivalent size and complexity.

Duration – Experience with Snowflake… – Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, features, and best practices.

– Experience with provisioning, supporting and administering Snowflake

Hands on experience administering Databricks, PowerBI and Purview

Hands on experience working in a complex environment requiring prioritization of tasks and deliverables.

Duration- Hands on experience working in a multi-team IT support environment providing … Hands on experience working in a multi-team IT support environment providing services to other teams and clients.