Senior Data Architect - Hybrid

Location: Calgary Alberta

Employment Type: Full Time Permanent

Salary Range: SP4 Level 6 $116960.00 $146200.00 per year. The final compensation for this position will be determined based on individual factors including education qualifications experience and internal equity.

Senior Data Architect Hybrid

The Opportunity

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is currently seeking a Senior Data Architect to join the Information Management Technology (IMT) branch. The Senior Data Architect leads the design and delivery of scalable secure and businessaligned data architecture across multiple projects. In this strategic role you will guide data architects and modelers ensuring alignment with enterprise modeling standards and semantic consistency.

In this role you will collaborate with Solution Architects and Product Owners to translate business requirements into effective data solutions while working with the Data Practice Leads to drive governance standardization integration and the evolution of enterprise architecture practices.

This is ablended role: parthandson architecture and modeling partmentorship and coordination and partstrategic alignmentwith the broader enterprise data ecosystem.

What your daytoday will look like:

• Collaborate with the Product Owner and Solution Architect to lead the data architecture and design efforts. Implement scalable secure and highperforming solutions across multiple projects ensuring alignment with business needs and enterprise strategy.

• Translate business and system requirements intoconceptual logical and physical data modelsthat support operational systems and analytics platforms ensuring alignment with enterprise model.

• Guide Data and Solution Architects with data architecture options ensuring solutions align with application and infrastructure designs and meet business needs.

• Design and implementdata access mechanisms(e.g. views stored procedures materialized views) to enable performant secure data APIs for consuming systems and services.

• Developdata sharing strategiesand technical solutions that enable governed secure and efficient data exchange across systems and external stakeholders.

• Conductdata migration assessmentsand develop implementation plans to support legacy modernization cloud transitions and new platform adoption.

• Collaborate with thePrincipal/Enterprise Data Modelerto:

  • Align projectlevel data models to theenterprise data model(s)and semantic standards

  • Apply standardized conceptual/logical models in solution delivery

  • Harmonize projectspecific terms definitions and domain boundaries with enterpriselevel data design

• Partner with theData Architecture and Data Engineering Practice Leadsto define refine and promoteenterprisewide best practicesfor:

  • Data architecture and integration standards and templates naming conventions and metadata management.

  • Performance tuning data security and privacy and strategies to ensure data availability SLAs and failover for robust and resilient solutions.

  • Adoption adherence and continuous evolution of architecture patterns.

• Support governance and compliance with different architecture domains through project delivery

• Providetechnical leadership and mentorshipto projectlevel Data Architects and Data Engineers ensuring consistent quality reusability and standards compliance.

• Maintain comprehensivedata architecture documentation including data models mappings lineage and flows to support traceability reuse and auditreadiness.

What were looking for in you:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a related field.

• 710 years of progressive experience in data architecture and design for software development including at least 5 years of delivering enterprise IT data services solutions for analytics.

• Proven expertise in designing and delivering endtoend data architecture solutions including conceptual logical and physical data models data flows mappings and other key artifacts for both technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Extensive experience in cloud data architecture with a strong track record of implementing scalable secure and resilient data solutions from design to deploymentpreferably within regulated industries such as oil and gas or government.

• Expertlevel proficiency in data modeling using tools such as ER/Studio Microsoft Visio or equivalent and SQL scripting (DDL/DML) with handson experience optimizing data solutions for performance scalability and maintainability.

• Strong leadership and mentorship capabilities with the ability to guide technical teams communicate complex architectural patterns clearly and foster alignment across business and IT stakeholders.

• Highly organized and adaptable with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives in fastpaced environments prioritize effectively and respond to evolving business needs and timelines.

Additional Information:

• All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada at the time of application.

• Should an individual with the required qualifications not be available applicants with closely related qualifications may be considered. As a result the position may be redesigned and/or reclassified.

• If you need accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process please email . Information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

What we offer you:

• Great benefits from your first day of work

• Flexible Work Program hybrid work and flexible hours

• Defined benefit pension plans

• Flexible benefits program options including Personal & Health spending account(s)

• Generous vacation entitlement and flex days

More information about working at the AER including our comprehensive Total Rewards package can be found in the careers section of our website Commitment to Diversity:

At the AER our values of Accountability Collaboration Transparency and Trust & Respect are foundational to our culture a culture where every individual regardless of race colour religion gender national origin age disability or any other legally protected factors thrives and contributes their unique perspectives.

Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion fuels innovation creating a brighter more sustainable Alberta for all. Join us in shaping this dynamic future.

Application closing date: May 16 2025 at midnight

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