Sr. Data Architect _ Atlanta, GA 30318 / Hybrid

The Details Of The Position Are:

Job Title: Sr. Data Architect

Location: Atlanta, GA 30318 / Hybrid

Duration: 6 months of contract with strong possibility of extension

Interview: Either Webcam or In Person

US Citizens only

Description

Plans and schedules team resources, status reporting and completion of required documentation for team assignment and projects. Analyzes and develops work or project plans for team assignments. Analyzes and implements solutions. Supervises subordinates.

JOB PURPOSE:

Design, implement, and manage the enterprise data management platform that supports Business Intelligence (BI), analytical and reporting needs across various Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) business functions. This position will also assess the current GTRI data inventories such as data sources, master, reference data, data dictionaries definitions, standards, and metadata management including policies that define, name, structure, and secure data assets.

IMPACT & INFLUENCE:

This position will interact on a consistent basis with the management and personnel within GTRI and other groups outside GTRI such as external service providers and Georgia Tech (GT) campus units. This position will also play an advisory role to the GTRI Enterprise Systems Department (ESD) Director in areas such as Data Governance best practices and data Stewardship processes.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Create and implement short-term and long-term data strategy roadmap to reflect GTRI strategic initiatives that comprises of Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Marts, Operational Data Stores, Metadata, Master Data, and Big Data (Data Lake, Data Lakehouse).
• Create, maintain, and evolve data architecture blueprints and reference architecture for current, transitional, and future state.
• Design conceptual and logical data models and flowcharts that reflect a true and practical Enterprise Data Model and Architecture.
• Possess an innovative mindset that contributes to the experimentation and recommendation of industry latest tools and technologies for solving complicated enterprise level data problems.
• Collaborate with the ESD ETL, Datawarehouse and Reporting team to gather and store data from internal and external data sources, implement data quality measure that include data profiling and data quality rules management.
• Collaborate with multiple functions (security, legal, etc.) to establish standards and policies to ensure enterprise information assets are properly classified, secured, protected by appropriate access management and privacy controls (in-flight and at rest)
• Manage information security, which includes information sensitivity analysis and management, access and audit control systems, encryption and other data protection techniques.
• Work with the ESD Database Administrators (DBAs) to optimize Oracle database systems for performance as required.
• Facilitate integration of Data visualization tools such as Tableau and Cognos that are widely used at GTRI to provide reporting and metrics requirements. with Oracle database, IBM DataStage, and other data sources.
  
  

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience architecting on prem and cloud-based enterprise data solutions
• Solid expertise architecting and delivering end-to-end data solutions within an enterprise (Data Warehousing, Analytics, BI, Big Data, Operational Data Store, Metadata, Master Data; on prem/cloud)
• Expertise in designing, building and managing Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms.
• Knowledge of data process modelling for an enterprise and business function-specific data architecture (conceptual, logical & physical) designed for scalability, consistency, integrity, and quality
• Knowledge of data governance framework that establishes, develops an Enterprise Data Management (EDM) framework that aligns with the overall enterprise data governance policies.
• Knowledge of Data visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau and Cognos Analytics,
• Knowledge of technology platforms such as MuleSoft, IBM DataStage.
• Knowledge of data management concepts that includes structured, unstructured data, batch, real-time integrations.
• Knowledge of developing processes that contribute to the improvement of data models that feed business intelligence tools that facilitates increasing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision making across the organization.
• Solid knowledge of general data integration and conversion scripting, programming, workflow development.
  
  

Preferred Education

Bachelors/MS in Computer Science or related technology field.

Relevant Industry certifications are a plus

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Experience architecting on prem and cloud-based enterprise data solutions

Required

10

Years

Architecting and delivering end-to-end data solutions within an enterprise (Data Warehousing, Analytics, BI, Big Data, Operational Data Store, etc.

Required

10

Years

Expertise in designing, building and managing Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms

Required

10

Years

Knowledge of technology platforms such as MuleSoft, IBM DataStage

Required

10

Years

Knowledge of Data visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau and Cognos Analytics,

Required

10

Years

US Citizen Only