Data Architect

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.