Enterprise Data Architect

Markham ON

Contract

3 Days / Week Onsite – Mandatory

The purpose of the Enterprise data Architect role is to: o Ensure that the organization’s IT strategy supports its business goals and objectives.

o Create and maintain architecture views that describe the current and future state of the enterprise.

o Develop data technology vision to fulfil business ambition & reduce costs.

o Define target data architecture and agreed data roadmaps.

o Communicate future IT architecture to sponsors and secure roadmap investment.

o Establish policies and standards to ensure that IT investments and projects align with the overall architecture and business strategy

o Assess new technologies in the data, data science and reporting and determine their potential impact on the enterprise o Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that architectural decisions meet the needs of the organization

o Analyze, design, plan, and implement enterprise-wide strategies to align IT infrastructure with business goals. Alternatively, implement frameworks and best practices for data collection, storage, processing, and utilization from functional, non-functional, service, and security perspectives; Ensure these efforts progress the overall architecture journey and align with Client’s IT Strategy

o Deliver strategic change through solution architecture, delivery, vendors, and partners.

o Lead Solution Architects to ensure solution quality and alignment to roadmaps, principles, and standards.

o Govern change against Architecture standards. Accountabilities Nature of Work

• Solutions and Assurance o Create solutions and design for projects to meet Client’s standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance.

o Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions.

o Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals.

o Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state.

o Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.

o Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

o Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases.

o Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.

o Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.

o Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs.

• Technical Leadership o Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company's architecture.

o Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.