Job Opportunities Senior Data Architect 9101

Job Overview

Under minimal supervision this Senior Data Architect role contributes to Wawanesas success by leading the overall design and evolution of Wawanesas enterprise data architecture. This role focuses primarily on enterprise information requirements: developing data architecture designs frameworks standards principles technical specifications roadmaps and best practices to grow and evolve the enterprise data management practice across the organization. This is a handson role requiring the ability and interest to dive in actively designing solutions and performing analysis and development as needed.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and expert guidance on data management practices across operational teams and technology projects by working collaboratively with the Data Management Information Technology Analytics and Business teams.
• Establish document and evangelize enterprise data architecture principles frameworks and best practices. Develop maintain and socialize a scalable data architecture roadmap aligned with enterprise objectives and evolving technology trends.
• Translate business strategy and requirements into a scalable flexible and sustainable enterprise data architecture. Design enterprise data models data storage solutions integration patterns and standardized vocabularies (ontologies and taxonomies) to drive consistency interoperability and reusability of information assets across the enterprise.
• Maintain and evolve a metadata management and repository strategy to catalog and govern enterprise data and information architecture artifacts for improved discoverability lineage and governance.
• Participate in the definition of technical standards and guidelines related to data and information use security access and governance including defining accountabilities in support of data quality mandates.
• Contribute to the evolution of data governance process and controls ensuring compliance with enterprise data architecture principles and standards.
• Review and guide new development initiatives to ensure alignment with enterprise data architecture standards and promote standardization reuse and architectural consistency across projects.
• Ensure the enterprise data architecture is fully aligned with broader enterprise architecture standards principles and roadmap to support cohesive and futureready technology ecosystems.
• Continuously monitor emerging technologies industry trends and standards to assess their relevance and potential impact. Integrate innovations into the enterprise data architecture roadmap to drive agility modernization and competitive advantage.
• Apply forwardthinking approaches to data architecture leveraging both existing capabilities and emerging methods. Identify opportunities to enhance organizational performance datadriven decision making and value delivery. processes products services and technologies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science information systems analytical discipline or a related study or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 10 years of Information Services/Information Technology experience and five years of data architecture experience.
• Experience using Kimball Star Data Warehousing design.
• Experience with and understanding of various data storage (relational databases NoSQL data lakes etc. processing paradigms (ETL streaming CDC etc. technologies and vendors.
• Knowledgeable in the design and construction of information architectures that enable wellintegrated transactional collaborative and analytical systems.
• Expert data/information modeling skills at the enterprise level.
• Understanding of taxonomies and ontologies as well as the challenges of applying structured techniques (data modeling) to less structured sources.
• Experience creating information policy to support effective design of information systems and use of information across the enterprise.
• Experience with a variety of business intelligence and data warehousing development techniques.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions using commercial off the shelf products.
• Exceptional analytical conceptual and problemsolving skills with a proven ability to create original concepts/theories and manage and prioritize a business workload across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Strong communication conflict management and negotiation skills with the ability to build trust and secure buyin from stakeholders at all levels of an organization speaking confidently to business and technical resources alike. Capable of clearly explaining the pros cons and longterm impacts of architectural decisions.
• Proven Ability to lead others to embrace perform effectively and adapt quickly to change.
• Proven ability to make excellent well justified decisions in complex high pressure environments by applying strong business acumen and focusing on key objectives. Skilled at quickly assessing situations identifying viable options and driving effective action.
• Able to coach and mentor others to enhance their decisionmaking capabilities and effectiveness.
• Knowledge of and experience in the insurance industry is considered an asset.

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