Data Architect

**Purpose**

The Information/Data Architect is responsible for the overall design of the enterprise information architecture, across multiple data types (structured, semi structured and unstructured), balancing the need for access against security and performance requirements. This individual focus primarily on enterprise information requirements: design, access, usage and stewardship. The position also requires an understanding of emerging regulatory issues surrounding information assets (such as consumer privacy laws, data retention policies, outsourced data and specific industry guidelines — especially in healthcare, insurance and banking). Also included are the developments or use of process models, creation or use of information or target data models, interface designs, and development of internal and external checks and controls to ensure proper governance, security and quality of information assets.

**Responsibilities**
- Develop a metadata management and repository strategy to manage all enterprise information architecture project artefacts.
- Facilitate the definition of integrative and canonical views of data or information across multiple content types (structured, semi-structured, XML or unstructured) to support convergence of information asset migration planning or impact analysis.
- Participate in the definition of technical standards and guidelines that pertain to data and information use, security, access and governance (including defining accountabilities in support of data quality mandates). **Ensure existing data/information assets are identified, stewarded and leveraged across the enterprise.**:

- Ensure the enterprise information architecture maps to the enterprise architecture.
- Ensure a focus on information/data quality by developing and publishing enterprise data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards, transformation rules and related enterprise consistency specifications.
- Construct, refine and maintain information models, as needed, to meet business requirements.
- Ensure timely and appropriate information models exist to aid projects.
- Develop a model management strategy in support of enterprise reuse and data
- sharing objectives.
- Validate audit objectives and assist with creation of audit plans to ensure continued data integrity and transparency.
- Establish guidelines for reporting procedures on the reuse of enterprise information architecture artefacts.
- Analyse information to evaluate the effectiveness of controls, determine the accuracy of reports, and monitor the efficiency and security of operations.
- Review audit reports to ensure findings and recommendations are acted on.
- Coordinate new development activities and ensure they are consistent and well
- integrated with the established enterprise information architecture, using metadata management and/or a repository to promote reuse and standards adoption.
- Facilitate consistent business analysis, information acquisition analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archiving and recovery strategies, security, and change management at the enterprise level.
- Assist in post-implementation continuous-improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality.
- Review corporate data sources for new business information and better sources of data feeds.
- Interface with the business community and provide ongoing status reports.
- Monitor regulatory guidelines (such as consumer privacy issues) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
- Monitor compliance and related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
- Monitor emerging industry standards (such as XML, RDF, OWL and XBRL) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or a related discipline with an Information Technology focus.
- TOGAF Certification.
- Experience with process redesign methods and tools.
- Seven to 10 years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in information systems design.
- Three to five years of demonstrated management / supervisory experience in system management.
- In-depth experience designing and implementing information solutions.
- Knowledgeable in the design and construction of information architectures that enable well integrated transactional, collaborative and analytical systems.
- Data/information modelling expertise at the enterprise level.
- Understanding of differences between relational modelling and object modelling.
- Understanding of metamodels.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- IT: 10 years (preferred)
- Information Systems Design: 2 years (required)
- management / supervisory experience in system management: 3 years (required)

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