Data Architect [Data Architecture, Sparx/Orbus iserver, data models]

Key Skills: Data Architecture, Sparx/Orbus iserver, data models

We are hiring for Data Architect at Birmingham, UK - 3 days per week Onsite

Role details:

• Sets the vision for the organisations use of data, through data design, to meet business needs.
• Designs and builds data models to fulfil the strategic data needs of the business as defined by chief data architects.
• Design, support and provide guidance for the upgrade, management, de-commission and archive of data in compliance with data policy; provide input into data dictionaries.

Typical Skills:

• Translate and accurately communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Undertake data profiling and source system analysis.
• Responsibility for the assurance of data solutions and make recommendations.
• Aware of opportunities for innovation with new tools.
• Produce, maintain and update relevant data models.
• Develop data standards for a specific component.
• Work with metadata repositories to complete complex tasks.
• Initiate actions, monitor services and identify trends to resolve problems.
• Support strategic planning in an administrative capacity.
• Design data architecture by dealing with specific business problems.

The role will be looking at 3 things:

• 1st initiative is refresh of documenting data models that they have for enterprise data warehouse, parts of these are very out of data. They can use reverse engineering tools but needs to be redocumented with fresh diagrams and version control processes and how to guides sent to people that use SPARKS enterprise architect.
• 2nd is data cataloguing working with data category management looking at data architect documenting in excel and documenting where it flows to in terms applications in Sparks or Orbus iserver (tbc on which yet)
• 3rd is supporting other projects which will need conceptual data models and then smaller entity relationship modelling and assurance of physical and logical data.