Data Architect

5 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa PBT Group Full time

**Duties**:
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- **Operational Delivery**
- Maintain, support, and enhance the business intelligence or data platform
- Create and maintain platform architecture and ensuring documentation is up to date
- Lead and provide technical guidance for design and implementation of data assets within governance systems
- Formulate and recommend standards for achieving maximum performance and cost savings within the data platform budget
- Take part in the planning for retirement of data assets, and migration of systems infrastructure to the cloud
- Work closely with data platform business owners to ensure the alignment of corporate and departmental objectives and projects
- Champion trust and sustainability throughout the data platform teams, designing and promoting best practices
- Help data engineers and analysts with issues needing technical expertise or complex systems and/or programming knowledge
- Provide on-the-job training for new or less experienced team members
- Provide technical training to external team members to foster stronger cross-departmental relations
- Input to architectural decision making
- **Reporting**
- Collaborate and work with teams to ensure that data and reports can meet their business needs using the BI platform.
- Design end-user reporting tools and systems, to help teams ensure reports are monitored, accurate, up-to-date and secure.
- Guide teams on correct modelling techniques for accurate and high performing report building.
- **Governance, Control and Benchmarking**
- Ensures the Data is manageable and provides more support to accelerate data-driven digital transformation.
- Ensure proper communication of applicable data privacy practices and laws to teams
- Conduct research and make recommendations on data products, services, and standards to support procurement and development efforts
- Ensure that capabilities needed for modern data warehousing are in place and are functioning appropriately for teams to use them
- **Technical Leadership**
- Customer Oriented
- Data Warehousing / “Lakehousing” Concepts
- Data Governance
- Data Loading (Batching and Streaming) (Kafka)
- Modern Data Architecture (Specifications, Architectural Concepts and Artifacts)
- Data Modelling (Kimball, Data Vault, 3rd Normal Form, ODS)
- Data Integration (ADF, Databricks, Talend, SSIS, Confluent)
- Data Storage (Data Lake, Delta Lake)
- Reporting and Dashboarding (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik)
- Warehouse / “Lakehouse" Automation
- An understanding of designing loosely coupled data solutions
- Extensive knowledge of cloud BI technologies

Skills and Experience Required:

- At least 6- 8 years’ experience in Enterprise Analytics (Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence)
- At least 6 -8 years’ BI Solution / Data Architecture experience
- At least 3 years cloud (Azure or AWS) experience (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS)
- Experience with data quality processes and master data management
- Experience in combining unstructured and structured data to enrich data models
- Understanding of batch, micro-batch, delta and streaming ETL/ELT
- Experience in agile processes and incremental delivery
- Ability to create capabilities to support strategic and operational insights across organisational levels
- Data and/or Delta Lake experience
- Strong technical background in development of data systems
- Detailed knowledge of system architecture, security, analysis, design, documentation and governance
- Understanding of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Working experience of Data/Dev Ops

Qualifications/ Certification:

- A BCom Informatics or BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent qualification or 6 - 8 years’ experience as a data architect within a modern data environment
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