Data Architect

• Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, building and maintaining reliable, efficient and scalable data architecture and data models that serve as a foundation for all data solutions.
• They also closely collaborate with senior leadership and IT teams to ensure alignment of data strategy with overall business goals.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Align data strategy to business goals to support a mix of business strategy, improved decision-making, operations efficiency and risk management
• Ensure data assets are available, consumable and secure for end users across the enterprise - applications, platforms and infrastructure - within the confines of enterprise and security architecture
• Design and build reliable, efficient and scalable data architecture to be used by the organization for all data solutions
• Implement and maintain scalable architectural data patterns, solutions and tooling to support business strategy
• Design, build, and launch shared data services and APIs to support and expose data-driven solutions in line with enterprise architecture standards
• Research and optimize data architecture technologies to enhance and support enterprise technology and data strategy
  
  

Skills Required

• Power Builder
• PostgreSQL
• GCP
• Big Query
  
  

Experience Required

• Senior Specialist Exp.: 10 years in IT;
• 7 years in concentration
  
  

Experience Preferred

• Must have experience presenting technical material to business users
• Must be able to envision larger strategies and anticipate where possible synergies can be realized
• Experience acting as the voice of the architecture/data model and defend its relevancy to ensure adherence to its principles and purpose
  
  

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree
  
  

Additional Information

• Data Modeling and Design: Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for business intelligence, analytics, and reporting solutions. Transform requirements into scalable, flexible, and efficient data structures that can support advanced analytics.
• Requirement Analysis: Collaborate with business analysts, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to gather and interpret requirements for new data initiatives. Translate business questions into data models that can answer these questions.
• Data Integration: Work closely with data engineers to integrate data from multiple sources, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and reliability. Map data flows and document relationships between datasets.
• Database Architecture: Design and optimize database schemas using the medallion architecture which includes relational, star schema and denormalized data sets for BI and ML data consumers.
• Metadata Management: Team with the data governance team so detailed documentation on data definitions, data lineage, and data quality statistics are available to data consumers.
• Data Quality Assurance: Establish master data management data modeling so the history of how customer, provider and other party data is consolidated into a single version of the truth.
• Collaboration and Communication: Serve as a bridge between technical teams and business units, clearly communicating the value and limitations of various data sources and structures.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of emerging trends in data modeling, analytics platforms, and big data technologies. Recommend enhancements to existing data models and approaches.
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize data models for query performance and scalability. Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks in collaboration with database administrators.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure that data models and processes adhere to regulatory standards and organizational policies regarding privacy, access, and security.
  
  

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
  
  

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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