Senior Data Architect (Kinball, Inmon) Permanent

VTRAC Consulting Corporation

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Job ID:   21-00011

Title:                                     Senior Data Architect (Kimball, Inmon)

Type:                                    Permanent

No. of Positions:                1

Location:                             GTA

Organization:

This team works in an environment built on:

• Teamwork, flexibility and respect
• Competitive salary including bonus
• Health and dental benefits effective immediately.
• Company pension plan with matched contribution
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
• Fitness reimbursement
• Great company culture-Respect for people and continuous improvement is at our core
• Paid holiday shutdown and competitive paid time off benefits

Position Description: 

Our client is embarking on number of business transformation initiatives that will shape its technology landscape including platforms, applications, data and BI. From replacing the core Mainframe business application with an ERP system and enabling Customers access to business data, to enabling telematic technology; collecting wealth of data; and turning on key telematic services for customers. This is a full-time opportunity the selected candidate will be responsible to create, maintain and enforce architectural standards, policies and procedures. To be successful, the candidate must possess exceptional business and interpersonal skills as well as demonstrated technical knowledge.

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the strategy roadmap for enterprise data. Implement data management policies and procedures for new and existing data sources.
• Assists to define the strategy roadmap for the enterprise; including data modelling, implementation and data management for our enterprise data warehouse and advanced data analytics systems.
• Establish standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of information and physical data persistence technologies.
• Work closely with third-party agencies, and project teams to gather business, data and reporting requirements and translate business needs into logical data structures, reporting and analytical objects in support of conversion planning and execution to ERP BI solution.
• Work to gather requirements, gain business consensus, perform product evaluations, mentor business and development resources, deliver solutions, conduct training, and documentation.
• Work with business partners to understand the business requirements and business processes, design data solutions for the application data layer, and data warehouse, data marts, data integration and master data definition and management.
• Lead solution design reviews delivered by external partners, internal developers and systems analysts to ensure quality, compliance to data architectural best practices, and alignment with corporate direction.
• Apply knowledge of industry trends, standards and developments to improve delivery
• Ensure high quality deliveries and adherence to governance, standards and best practice
• Forward and reverse engineer data models. Create high level and detailed designs and maintain associated artefacts.
• Facilitates consistent business analysis, data acquisition and access analysis and design, Database
• Management Systems optimization, archiving and recovery strategy, load strategy design and implementation, security and change management at the enterprise level.
• Plan and manage data migration activities (profiling, mapping, validation, and reconciliation) between legacy systems and ERP environment. Lead data flow and data integration design through the use of ETL and SOA technologies.
• Provide guidance/consult on data integration

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of experience as a Data Architect/Modeller
• 8+ years of experience applying Kimball and Inmon methodologies
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with databases such as SQL Server 2008/2012/2014, DB2, and in-memory technologies.
• Experience in Cloud: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS implementations
• Expertise in MDM, Metadata Management, Data Quality and Business Intelligence
• Strong communication skills (oral and written)
• Excellent investigative and problem solving skills
• Fluent in relational database concepts and flat file processing concepts
• Must be knowledgeable in software development lifecycles/methodologies
• Has strong presentation and collaboration skills and can communicate all aspects of the job requirements,
• Ability to be self-sufficient and can work within all level of leadership
• Preference will be provided to candidates with SAP/Hana experience.

We thank all candidates in advance. Only selected candidates for interviews will be contacted. For other exciting opportunities, please visit us at www.vtrac.com. VTRAC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Tagged as: Data Architect, inmon, Kinball, SAP Hana