Job Purpose:
The Data Architect is responsible for developing target data architecture view, maintaining dynamic designs, defining data ingestion readiness, and reviewing developed reports.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct day-to-day activities while ensuring compliance to policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes in line with leading practices.
- Establish working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
- Collect feedback from internal stakeholders on issues being faced and other requirements.
- Contribute to the preparation of progress reports directed to all relevant stakeholders to keep them informed of progress.
- Support in the development of guidelines to standardize statistical database build and storage of data collected via CAPI, CATI, and CAWI surveys.
- Support in the establishment of policies for archiving, preservation, retention, and disposal of data.
- Maintain dynamic designs to enable future objectives and strategies incorporation and ensure data privacy controls.
- Communicate with concerned functions to follow up on translation of high-level designs into low-level designs.
- Provide trainings and coaching sessions for related stakeholders to increase awareness on data solutions and best practices.
- Define data ingestion readiness in order to enable databases accesses for Statistics Business Areas.
- Identify and advise on any data service architecture issue and provide input throughout the development of remediation plans to mitigate and decrease risks.
- Identify data quality improvements and operational procedures to enable the correction of data defects.
- Provide support as needed in the design of new / expanding databases.
- Provide support as needed in tuning queries for data extraction, management, and manipulation.
- Ensure timely gathering of feedback from relevant functions and other related stakeholders to be able to reflect changes, improvements and needs within the data architecture.
- Review developed reports including KPI results, highlighted variances and recommend needed improvements and corrective actions to ensure underperforming areas are acted upon.
Job Qualifications and Requirements:
- +5 years of experience in Data Architect.
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
