Data Architect (24 Months)
Data Architect (24 Months)
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Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement enterprise data architecture aligned with the organizations business and IT strategy.
- Define data standards models and metadata management practices to ensure consistency across systems.
- Lead the development of conceptual logical and physical data models for both structured and unstructured data.
- Collaborate with data engineers business analysts and application architects to integrate data across legacy systems cloud platforms and third-party vendors.
- Develop and implement data governance policies including data security quality classification lineage and retention.
- Ensure compliance with data protection legislation such as POPIA and other regulatory mandates.
- Identify opportunities for data consolidation quality improvement and master data management.
- Support analytics and reporting initiatives by ensuring data availability accessibility and integrity.
- Work with project managers and business units to ensure data architecture aligns with transformation goals particularly in claims processing and financial reporting.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data-focused team members.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems Data Science or a related field.
- Certification in Data Architecture or Enterprise Architecture (e.g. TOGAF DAMA CDMP or AWS/Azure Data Architect certifications).
- 10 years of experience in IT with at least 6 years in a Data Architecture or Enterprise Data Management role.
- Experience with data integration tools (e.g. Informatica Talend Azure Data Factory SSIS).
- Familiarity with data governance tools and frameworks (e.g. Collibra IBM InfoSphere Alation).
- Exposure to Agile or hybrid SDLC environment.
- Proven experience designing data architectures for complex enterprise systems and integrating across platforms (e.g. claims systems ERP CRM).
Employment Type
Contract
