Job Title: Data Architect Location: Plano, TX 100% Onsite role Job Type: Contract; 3 months contractPrimary skillset: Data Vault, Data modelling, AWS, Terraform.
Responsibilities: - Implement business and IT data requirements through new data strategies and designs across all data platforms (relational, dimensional, and NoSQL) and data tools (reporting, visualization, analytics, and machine learning).
- Work with business and application/solution teams to implement data strategies, build data flows, and develop conceptual/logical/physical data models.
- Define and govern data modeling and design standards, tools, best practices, and related development for enterprise data models.
- Identify the architecture, infrastructure, and interfaces to data sources, tools supporting automated data loads, security concerns, analytic models, and data visualization.
- Hands-on modeling, design, configuration, installation, performance tuning, and sandbox POC.
- Work proactively and independently to address project requirements and articulate issues/challenges to reduce project delivery risks.
- Experience leading a team that builds a set of data products to be used by downstream business applications.
- Ability to understand and apply different patterns to ingest, process & integrate data across applications and from external parties.
- Being able to create relational and non-relational data structures in both SQL and non-SQL databases and Data Integration patterns.
Skills: - Bachelor's or master's degree in computer/data science technical or related experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience (using RDBMS, dimensional, NoSQL data platform technologies, and ETL and data ingestion protocols).
- Experience with data warehouse, data lake, and enterprise big data platforms in multi-data-center contexts required.
- Experience with data modeling techniques such as Data Vault and Start Schema
- Good knowledge of metadata management, data modeling, and related tools (Erwin or ER Studio or others) required.
- Experience in team management, communication, and presentation.