Enterprise Data Architect
Job Description
About the job
Job Title: Enterprise Data Architect
Location: Need 3 days onsite in Markham, ON office
Duration:Contract
Full JD:
The purpose of the Enterprise data Architect role is to:
o Ensure that the organization’s IT strategy supports its business goals and objectives.
o Create and maintain architecture views that describe the current and future state of the enterprise.
o Develop data technology vision to fulfil business ambition & reduce costs.
o Define target data architecture and agreed data roadmaps.
o Communicate future IT architecture to sponsors and secure roadmap investment.
o Establish policies and standards to ensure that IT investments and projects align with the overall architecture and business strategy
o Assess new technologies in the data, data science and reporting and determine their potential impact on the enterprise
o Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that architectural decisions meet the needs of the organization
o Analyze, design, plan, and implement enterprise-wide strategies to align IT infrastructure with business goals. Alternatively, implement frameworks and best practices for data collection, storage, processing, and utilization from functional, non-functional, service, and security perspectives; Ensure these efforts progress the overall architecture journey and align with Client’s IT Strategy o Deliver strategic change through solution architecture, delivery, vendors, and partners.
o Lead Solution Architects to ensure solution quality and alignment to roadmaps, principles, and standards.
o Govern change against Architecture standards. Accountabilities Nature of Work • Solutions and Assurance
o Create solutions and design for projects to meet Client’s standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance.
o Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions.
o Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals.
o Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state.
o Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.
o Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
o Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases.
o Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.
o Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.
o Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs.
• Technical Leadership o Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company’s architecture. o Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.
