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Data Architect

EXL
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 9/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/20/2027
Essential Duties

  • Understand and translate business needs into data models and data architecture supporting long-term solutions.
  • Work with the Application Development team to implement data strategies, build data flows and development of data models.
  • Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models using best practices to ensure high data quality and reduced redundancy, along with corresponding metadata.
  • Optimise and update logical and physical data models to support new and existing projects.
  • Develop best practices for standard naming conventions and coding practices to ensure consistency of data models.
  • Organized and rigorous with versioning of documentation and models to ensure consistent delivery and understanding between the client and development team.
  • Recommend opportunities for reuse of data models in new environments.
  • Perform reverse engineering of physical data models from databases and SQL scripts.

Evaluate data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies.

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