Senior Data Architect

We are recruiting for a Senior Data Architect role, who will be responsible for defining and implementing the organisations data architecture initiatives.

• Conduct research and make recommendations on Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tools, enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and data lake products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Evaluate, recommend, and select EDW and data lake components, including hardware, database management systems, ETL software, data mining tools, and metadata management tools.
• Work with end users, BI and data analytics teams to identify, create, and deliver reports according to requirements.
• Design and manage ETL, EDW, data lake improvement and growth projects.
• Identify inefficiencies and gaps in current EDW and data lake and leverage solutions.
• Identify inconsistencies and quality issues in the data and take steps to maintain data consistency and integrity.
• Diagnose and resolve the organisations EDW and data lake requirements, access and performance issues.
• Oversee the installation, management, and configuration of necessary components to ensure access to the organisations EDW and data lake.
• Monitor system details within the EDW and data lake, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements.
• Perform cost estimates for data migration across development, test, and production systems, and plan and coordinate the migration processes.
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to data systems.
• Establish, build and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and success to continuously improve on the service delivery.
• Work in collaboration with colleagues in the centre to ensure timeous delivery of the deliverables and manage service level agreements (SLAs).

• Must have an information technology-related diploma or degree.
• Must have a professional architecture certification in the data management field (i.e. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)).
• Must have at least five (5) years of experience as a Senior Data Architect and possess expertise in the following data architecture components:
• Data architecture principles.
• Enterprise data model (conceptual, logical and physical).
• Data catalogue and metadata repository.
• Data governance framework.
• Master data management (MDM) strategy.
• Data integration architecture.
• Data storage and platform strategy.
• Data lineage and provenance.
• Data quality management framework.
• Data security and privacy architecture.
• Data analytics and business intelligence (BI) architecture.
• Big data and artificial intelligence (AI)/ machine learning (ML) architecture.
• Data architecture roadmap.
• Data access and application programming interface (API) strategy.

Information :

• Company : Nambiti Technologies
• Position : Senior Data Architect
• Location : Pretoria, Gauteng
• Country : ZA