Data Architect_NJ / NC

Role: Data Architect

Location: NJ / NC – Onsite – Need Local

Pay Rate - $70-$80/hour with out benefits

Responsibilities:

• Works with Delivery Managers to balance rapid delivery of business solutions with sound technical solutions and on development team member competencies, skills, and overall productivity.
• Collaborate with Delivery teams to define, select, and implement data, analytics, and information solutions that consider business objectives and meet non-functional requirements.
• Assist the Enterprise Architect in the planning process for new business initiatives through buy/build recommendations, vendor solutions evaluations, assessing designs against company standards, evaluating technical risk and define and align technology and roadmaps with business strategies.
• Monitor trends and evaluates emerging technologies that are candidates for the future state data and analytics architecture or evolving business strategy and supports vendor analysis and proofs-of-concept to validate new technologies, solutions, and designs as needed.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to Junior Architects and Developers in data and analytics technologies, best practices, innovation, designs, and processes.
• Assists with tier 2 application production issues and challenging issues in any phase of the development lifecycle. Supports continuous improvement by identifying and proposing tuning opportunities.
• Identifies opportunities to increase efficiency, quality, and speed to market. Proposes actions to realize

Qualifications:

• 7 to 10 years of experience in Data and Analytics Architecture
• P&C Insurance industry experience preferred.
• Understanding of Data Design methodologies and their application in complex multi-tier systems.
• Knowledge of Real Time, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Oriented Architecture (WOA)
• Strong understanding of Data warehouses, Data Marts and Data Lake.
• Ability to develop and architect solutions based on non-functional requirements.
• Experience with Power BI, Azure ML, Azure Databricks, IICS and/or Informatica PowerCenter is preferred.
• Experience architecting and data modeling in Azure ecosystem is preferred.
• Superior technical knowledge in Data Quality, Standards, Governance, and Design
• Ability to effectively work well with people in other departments and/or outside of the enterprise.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels.