Senior Data Architect Job Description
Senior data architect
provides technical leadership and governance of the big data team and the implementation of the solution architecture in following Hadoop ecosystem (Hadoop (HortonWorks), Map Reduce, Pig, Hive, HC Catelog, Tez, Spark, Pheonix, Presto, Hbase, Accumulo, Storm, Kafka, Flume, Falcon, Atlas, OoZie, Ambari, Hue, Security – Kerberos, Ranger, Knox, Oracle ASO, HDFS encryption, AD/LDAP, hosting platform - AWS).
Senior Data Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Design and build robust, high-performance, and adaptable solution optimal for modern platform (Big Data/Relational/No-SQL/OLAP) with ability to integrate technical functionality
Hands on experience with MS SQL Server 2008, 2010, 2012
Responsible for the delivery of a robust scalable data architecture that meets the business goals of the organization
Institute, champion and implement analytics data
Collaborate with the Application Development team to analyze, identify, design and implement processes for sourcing data
Provide technical thought leadership on High Level Architecture and Design, data modeling, Big Data strategy & adoption for Ingestion and Analytics Applications within the Finance IT domain
Generate DDL script from data modelling tool and to ensure the script’s proper function
Lead the architecture, design, development of the business intelligence platform
Define technical principles, vision, and standards for the data warehouse
Ensure the design can scale to handle additional data demands
Senior Data Architect Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Senior Data Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, CDMP, MDM, DBA, SQL, SAP, TOGAF, API, CISSP, VCP
Education for Senior Data Architect
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Employers hiring for the senior data architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Mathematics, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business, Education, Computer Engineering, Architecture
Skills for Senior Data Architect
Desired skills for senior data architect include:
Spark
Advertising ecosystem
Analytical products offered as a service
Hive
SQL
Understanding of marketing metrics
Data integration
Industry trends
Pig
Technology standards
Desired experience for senior data architect includes:
Demonstrates careful attention to quality and accuracy
Strong leadership and ability to motivate others
A strong interest in financial markets and instruments
Hands-on management of datasets, lifecycles, access security and policies
Resident expertise in data handling best practices, archiving, compression, serialize/de-serialize methods
Ability to develop strategy documents, roadmaps, plans, socialize concepts, develop business cases, liaise with teams for planning and implementation
Senior Data Architect Examples
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Senior Data Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior data architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior data architect
- Understand what the data is and how it is used in the business processes
- Drive the standards for Data Quality across multiple data-sets and drive for data trust across enterprise
- Define and own Data quality contract with source team and consistency is maintained in Data warehouse
- Work with business partners to define ways to leverage data to develop platforms and solutions to drive business growth
- Knowledge of external and internal data capabilities and trends, provides leadership and facilitates the evaluation of vendors and products, contributes to the provision of oversight and governance for configuration and implementation of products
- Responsible for the technical direction of data/information relating to applications within a portfolio and/or delivery of secure data architecture
- Monitor the work of vendor partner resources and Database Administrator/Analysts
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure data architecture alignment with key portfolio initiatives on the basis of cost, functionality and practicality
- Create documentation and presentations, lead discussions with business and technology owners to receive buy-in and approval
- Document and articulate relationships between business goals and information technology solutions
Qualifications for senior data architect
- In-depth understanding of solution, business, information and data architectures
- Ability to balance creativity with pragmatism, concepts with practical applications, agility with control
- Ability to learn and absorb new concepts quickly (in business and in systems), apply new knowledge as appropriate, and mentor others
- Expertise in database integration patterns and performance considerations for operational and DWE databases
- Domain Knowledge in financial services platforms and enterprise functions
- Collaborating to build Services based interfaces to the IT systems and working with enterprise systems and all third party service providers
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Senior Data Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a senior data architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior data architect
- Conduct architecture assessments and reviews to ensure alignment with business goals and strategies
- Champion data quality and effective use of available information
- Participate in POC evaluations of technologies and tools
- Define the flow and treatment of data across various zones of the Enterprise Data Lake (EDL)
- Define and provide consistent direction and governance of the data architectural capabilities and frameworks across work streams such as data model principles, data standardization, data retention, data flow, data lineage and transformation, masterdata management, metadata management, data quality and remediation
- Own the data governance meta-model and contribute to the development of data governance operating models
- Coordinate across global SMEs to identify and resolve strategic data design topics related to bank-wide data management
- Closely liaise with SMEs to support maintenance and enhancement of the enterprise-wide data model and ontology
- Collaborate with divisional architecture teams to help drive the ongoing adoption of data architecture standards and best practices
- Familiarity with Data Management and Data Governance Tools
Qualifications for senior data architect
- Building data model and sequence diagrams of the use cases support today to IT backend systems
- Working knowledge of Informatica B2B Data Exchange platform
- Equivalent work experience may be considered
- Experienced with sequencing algorithms and theory
- Experience with Search and Content Recommendation services
- Practical experience on architecture and deployment of software components into cloud based infrastructures, Amazon Web Services
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Senior Data Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior data architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior data architect
- Good stakeholder management skills, towards data architects, business SMEs senior management
- Coordinate across global SMEs / Subject Matter Experts to identify and resolve strategic data design topics related to bank-wide data management
- Collaborate with divisional architecture teams to help manage the ongoing adoption of data architecture standards and best practices
- The Senior Data Architect will be responsible for helping customers get started using our Kylo open source framework
- Implementation leads on a project
- Establish roadmaps for the execution of corporate data management strategy
- Oversee and maintain corporate data management standards and governance processes
- Optimizes data management approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities
- Develops a long-term strategic plan for the company's corporate data management systems and helps “as is” architectures become “to be” architectures through phasing and cost benefit analysis
- Collaborate with other architects and developers to provide a consensus-based solutions that is scalable, adaptable and synchronized with the ever changing business needs
Qualifications for senior data architect
- Experience in online marketing disciplines (Mobile marketing, Display, SEM/SEO, Social Mobile, ) is a plus
- Twelve or more years of experience in data analysis or computer programming
- Experience working with programming design and coding languages
- Experience with a variety of data model tools (Sybase PowerCenter, Erwin, UML)
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with reporting and analytic tools such as Business Objects, SAS
- Strong Teradata desired
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Senior Data Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a senior data architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior data architect
- 10+ years minimum of demonstrable experience with the Microsoft BI stack, including SQL, SSIS, SSAS (Dimensional and Tabular), SSRS, DAX, MDX, and other components
- Manages risks associated with corporate data assets through the development, use and promotion of the appropriate standards and security policies
- Oversee the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Data/ETL/BI solutions within the enterprise
- Work with various business and IT stakeholders to demonstrate and show business value of any new strategic platforms being considered
- Build relationships and trust with key stakeholders to support program delivery and adoption of architecture
- Must be able to understand the overall business strategy to ensure components of the corporate data management vision align with those of management and other stakeholders
- Mentor other data developers and architects in the development of complex data/ETL/BI solutions
- At least 8 years’ experience in the area of data management, modeling, data analysis, and/or reporting
- Strong technical documentation and technical writing skills
- Hands on experience with working with corporate data and reporting - HR and Finance data
Qualifications for senior data architect
- Experience as a techno-functional senior ERP consultant with a background in Finance modules including AP, AR, GL, Cash, Order Management, Accounting etc
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data modeling large, complex database systems (350+ tables)
- Conceptual thinker with ability to understand business objectives and translate into business solutions
- Recognition and promotion of the value of Data Architecture Design Patterns
- ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE (required)
- PROGRAMMING/JAVA (preferred)
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Senior Data Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a senior data architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior data architect
- Hands on experience with OLAP Tools (Analysis Services, Tabular)
- Hands on experience with reporting tools (Reporting Services, Excel Tools, Tableau, Power BI)
- Familiarity with master data management tools and concepts
- Knowledge of Big Data technologies a plus
- Proficient with enterprise architecture and data architecture concepts
- Expertise with data modeling techniques (Star, Snowflake, ) data warehousing & data mart principles and methodologies
- Involved with the design and scope of deliverables within a field of expertise
- Perform/drive resolution of problems on combinations and interactions of products
- Communicate and present complex issues with assurance and confidence
- Conduct/lead oral status/technical interchange meetings with clients on small to medium sized engagements
Qualifications for senior data architect
- Experience of Cloud managed service offering will be plus (ex
- Creating a very performance oriented physical data models in Oracle
- DBMS (MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, DB2, Netezza)
- Data Modeling Tools (e.g., InfoSphere, ERWin)
- An expertise in two integration tools (DTS, SSIS, Informatica, Data Stage)
- Prior exposure to Big Data technologies like HDFS, Greenplum, Talend , high volume data processing and performance optimization in a real-time data environment