Deliver scalable and reliable data solutions leveraging Azure, Snowflake, traditional RDBMS, and BI tools.
Translate strategic requirements into a usable data architecture, which includes data model, associated metadata, data linage, and taxonomies to guide product development.
Ensure data is organized, and structured in a way that promotes data quality, security, and accessibility, which are essential aspects of data governance.
Collaborate with stakeholders, such as data owners, data stewards, and IT teams, to ensure that the organization meets data governance requirements.
Ensure compliance with industry regulations and privacy laws, such as PIPEDA, by designing data architecture that adheres to these requirements.
Provide guidance and assist in implementing data governance best practices, and procedures.
Document data frameworks, principles, and standards.
Act as a high-level decision maker for data related technical direction and standards relating to data related projects.
Provide technical leadership for the implementation and development team.
Present the solutions and investigate technology options.
Actively consult on the implementation of solutions, explaining the rationale behind choices, and make amendments to the solution as required.
Perform research to find solutions to data related problems by distilling information in the form of technical documents, and meetings.
Requirements & Skills:
8+ years of expertise designing technology solutions that optimize, and advance business functions.
Cloud knowledge preferably Azure
Experience in modern database systems (i.e. MS SQL Server, Mongo DB, Cosmos DB, etc.)
Strong Data Modeling, Data Lake, and Data Warehouse experience, and skills.
Experience designing/implementing star and/or snowflake schema.
Extensive knowledge of security, privacy, and data governance best practices, and how to properly implement and review.
Experience with design modeling standards such as Entity Relationship diagrams
Experience with data migration projects
Experience with data ingestion, standardization, transformation, and consumption
Knowledge of Performance, CI/CD, automated testing, and quality methodologies
Exceptional skills in spoken, written, and graphical communications.
Superior organizational and planning skills
Strong leadership skills are required to infuse and align cross-functional teams with a common vision and to motivate them to support the proposed solution.
