GTRI Sr. Data Architect

Short 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.

Complete Description :

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 Dat 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 nd 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

Preferred Education

Bachelors / MS in Computer Science or related technology field.

Relevant Industry certifications are a plus