Data Architect

SUMMARYThe Data Architect is a key member of the Fortna Warehouse Execution System (WES) team that identifies, categorizes, organizes, and validates data and transforms that data into meaningful information. This position plays a vital role in building the Business Intelligence capability of the FortnaWES software product PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE Evaluate business and technical domains to produce representative logical and physical data models.  Build data models with the flexibility to change when business requirements change. Define modeling standards, guidelines, best practices and approved modeling techniques. Reconcile multiple logical source models into a single, logically consistent enterprise model. Identify significant enterprise data assets as determined by the business impact, decision impact, risk mitigation or organizational impact of the information. Establish Master Data Management of significant data assets, and reference data, and lead the stewardship committee. Cultivate and manage data governance practices. Lead data integration, business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management programs by rationalizing data processing to support reuse. Create data stores, including warehouses, data lakes, data marts, etc., to support the BI initiatives. Collect and identify the various metadata assets. Model the future state of the data architecture and provide data architecture best practices and guidelines. Ensure that critical information assets modeled as part of any project are represented in the enterprise information architecture (EIA) and follow the design guidelines and requirements of EIA. Offer thought leadership regarding database design, data modeling, security, integration, mining, and advanced analytics techniques Employ initiative, professionalism and self-discipline in daily interactions.