Data Architect

Stefanini Group is looking for a Data Architect in VA. Responsibilities: • Provides support for metadata management system development, implementation and maintenance. • Works with the IT teams to understand data requirements. • Collects, analyzes and summarizes data to support business decisions. • Provides data that is congruent, reliable, and easily accessible by the user. • Utilizes tools to monitor and mass update data changes. • Translates business requirements into conceptual, logical and physical data model. • Develops and maintains the logical and physical data models. • Uses technology to extract and analyze raw data. • Develops and maintains technical documentation regarding data. • Makes recommendations for process improvements in order to support data integrity efforts. • Analyzes program needs and translates them into data warehousing and data mart requirements. • Designs, develops and deploys query parameters, layout, filters, and analytics for program information solutions. • Recognizes and resolves conflicts between models, ensuring that data models are consistent with the enterprise model (e.g., entity names, relationships and definitions). • Communicates data integrity accuracy to the business, and escalates / communicates issues when necessary. • Provides guidance on complex issues to other team members. • Supports the development of automated solutions which enhance the quality of enterprise data. • Performs regular data audits. • Builds data migration and single source strategies. • Participates in establishment of governance for metadata management across the enterprise. • Ensures integration of project logical data model into enterprise conceptual data model. • Works in partnership with data architects to design a common customer view of information. • Oversees the design and implementation of data cleansing procedures. • Works with project teams to understand the business environment in order to manage enterprise-wide information/data support systems. • Researches internal and external data sources for new data and improved sources of data feeds Complexity. • Works on multiple projects/issues/enhancements as a team leader. • Works on complex enterprise-wide projects/issues/enhancements. • Designs logical enterprise-wide data models. • Provides support for master data management, logical data, quality system development, implementation and maintenance. • Some experience modeling for non-relational data for example Json or XML. Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems , or other related field or equivalent work experience. • Typically has 5+ years of IT experience with at least 3 years of data management, metadata and data quality experiences. • Expertise with data quality tools for data profiling, cleansing and standardization. • May require experience in implementing solutions and processes for master data and hierarchy synchronizations. • Knowledge of logical data architecture. • Cloud experience with big data will be a plus.