Data Architect at Edge Consulting South Africa

Job description

The client is a large bank in Sandton looking to hire contractors for the below requirement:

• Design data solutions based on business strategy, client needs, best-practice knowledge, considering system design and development, integration and control of data, and the future technology direction, including the migration plans to move from current to future state.
• Ensure all aspects of the solution design and implementation are completed according to the agreed architecture frameworks, relevant architectural principles and standards and continuously driving toward towards Target State Architecture.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies and support adoption of new / enhanced processes / systems.
• Ensure alignment with emerging Technologies and make recommendations in terms of potential new technologies, put together position papers, and/or propose which should be put forward for proto-typing and experimentation.
• Manage acceptance of solutions through education and effective communication.
• Provide input into enterprise data needs and the creation and maintenance of the enterprise data model,
• Provide input into the data technology architecture and direction of the organisation from a data management technologies perspective
• Provide input into defining an maintaining data integration, DW, BI, MDM, document and content and metadata architectures as well as enterprise taxonomies
• Monitoring and evaluation of competitive offerings that could change the domain landscape.
• Provide data domain related thought leadership and strategic direction to the enterprise and specific projects
• Develop data related design guidelines, standards and patterns.
• Communicate strategies and processes around architecture to cross functional groups at all relevant levels.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of latest developments in data (Legislative and Industry), carry out research and consult industry experts with regard to best practice and technology trends, build external networks that facilitate deeper understanding, attend relevant forums.
• Understand and embrace the company vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.

Skills required:

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualifications, Honours or Masters in Information Systems, Informatics, Computer Science or Engineering.
• Preferred Certifications: CDMP, TOGAF, Zachman
• 5-8 years in a data architecture role and relevant IT Architecture experience
• Able to demonstrate practical experience with Data Modelling (Conceptual, logical and physical), Data Warehousing (Data Analysis, atomic and conformed data mart design and build), Business Intelligence (Reporting to Advanced Analytics incl real-time analytics), Data Integration (Patterns and technologies (real-time, data streaming & virtualisation)).
• Broad Understanding of Data Quality Management, Data Governance, Master and Reference Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Security, Document and content management and other data management capabilities
• Hands-on engineering experience across both structured and unstructured data sets and relevant Data Management and Big Data Architectures and Technologies, e.g. Hadoop, Pig, Hive
• Relevant regulatory knowledge, and understanding of banking and financial services
  of Data Management Body Of Knowledge (DMBOK), TOGAF, Zachman
• A broad understanding of a number of different technical disciplines