Data Architect
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18 hours ago
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Job Summary
The Data Centre of Excellence (DCoE) is seeking a Senior Data Architect to provide architectural leadership and strategic direction for enterprise data initiatives. This role focuses on designing and enabling a Data Fabric/Data Mesh ecosystem to deliver scalable secure and high-quality data products (e.g. analytics dashboards and data services) supporting policy analytics and legislative functions. The architect will play a key role in advancing enterprise data strategy enabling interoperability across systems and promoting data as a strategic asset. Key Responsibilities 1. Architecture & Strategy
- Design and lead enterprise and solution architecture for data platforms and products
- Define and govern enterprise data models standards and best practices
- Translate business needs into scalable data solutions
- Provide leadership in data management and analytics architecture
- Design and deliver data products within Data Fabric/Data Mesh frameworks
- Implement data integration crosswalk frameworks and linkage strategies
- Establish data quality metadata and governance frameworks
- Develop proof-of-concepts for integration and orchestration
- Lead workshops and discovery sessions
- Provide advisory support to leadership and project teams
- Present architectural solutions to senior stakeholders
- Facilitate consensus across business and technical teams
- Define best practices for data governance integration and quality
- Support cloud and data modernization initiatives
- Evaluate emerging technologies
- Ensure alignment with security privacy and compliance standards
- Collaborate with architects engineers and data teams
- Review data models pipelines and designs
- Ensure scalable and sustainable delivery processes
- Manage risks tasks and escalations
- Mentor team members and promote best practices
- Foster innovation and continuous improvement
- Build strong stakeholder relationships
- Promote data as a strategic enterprise asset
- Architecture designs and enterprise data models
- Data platform and product design artifacts
- Proof-of-concepts and technical assessments
- Status reports (weekly/monthly)
- Degree diploma or certification in a relevant field
- 5 years in data architecture integration and platform design
- 5 years designing and implementing data solutions
- 5 years across multiple architecture domains (business application technology)
- 5 years translating business processes into data solutions
- 3 years working with stakeholders to explain complex data concepts
- Experience with Data Fabric/Data Mesh architectures
- Experience designing scalable data products (datasets APIs etc.)
- Experience with AI/ML and advanced analytics platforms
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
- Experience with Big Data platforms (e.g. Cloudera)
- Experience in public sector environments
- Strong data governance security and privacy implementation experience
- Experience developing data strategy and roadmaps
- Training and enablement experience
- Must work remotely from within Canada
- Occasional onsite meetings (no travel reimbursement)
- Must provide own equipment (Windows preferred for AVD compatibility)
