Employment Opportunities

Strategy & Planning

• Develop and deliver long-term strategic goals for data architecture vision and standards in conjunction with data users, department managers, clients, and other key stakeholders.
• Coordinate planned changes and capture current data and information state with the Enterprise Architect.
• Create short-term tactical solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall data management roadmap.
• Establish processes for governing the identification, collection, and use of corporate metadata; take steps to assure metadata accuracy and validity.
• Establish methods and procedures for tracking data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvement.
• Conduct data capacity planning, life cycle, duration, usage requirements, feasibility studies, and other tasks.
• Create strategies and plans for data security, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and archiving.
• Ensure that data strategies and architectures are in regulatory compliance.

Operational Management

• Assess and determine governance, stewardship, and frameworks for managing data across the organization.
• Develop and promote data management methodologies and standards.
• Select and implement the appropriate tools, software, applications, and systems to support data technology goals.
• Oversee the mapping of data sources, data movement, interfaces, and analytics, with the goal of ensuring data quality.
• Collaborate with enterprise architect, project managers and business unit leaders for all projects involving enterprise data.
• Ensure the success of enterprise-level application rollouts (e.g. ERP, SCM, CRM, etc.)
• Address data-related problems in regards to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple-platform integration. 
• Act as a leader and advocate of data management, including coaching, training, and career development to staff.
• Develop and implement key components as needed to create testing criteria in order to guarantee the fidelity and performance of data architecture.
• Document the data architecture and environment in order to maintain a current and accurate view of the larger data picture.
• Identify and develop opportunities for data reuse, migration, or retirement.
• Handle confidential information with discretion.

• Provide on call support as needed.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years experience as a data or information architect required.
• Hands-on experience with data architecting, data mining, large-scale data modeling, and business requirements gathering/analysis.
• Direct experience in implementing enterprise data management processes, procedures, and decision support.
• Strong understanding of relational data structures, theories, principles, and practices. 
• Strong familiarity with metadata management and associated processes.
• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise repository tools, data modeling tools, data mapping tools, and data profiling tools.
• Demonstrated expertise with repository creation, and data and information system life cycle methodologies.
• Experience with business requirements analysis, entity relationship planning, database design, reporting structures, and so on.
• Experience with data modeling tools
• Ability to manage data and metadata migration. 
• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
• Experience with database platforms, including SQL Server and Oracle.
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Working knowledge of PC-based office tools like Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.