Senior Enterprise Architect

Texas  ‐ Onsite
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Job Title: Senior Enterprise Architect

Salary/Rate: $60-70/hour

Location: Houston, TX

We have an immediate need a Senior Enterprise Architect for a one year contract in Houston. The duration of this contract could be extended.

Position: Senior Enterprise  Architect

Location: Houston

Tasks and responsibilities

  • Create the future state business/technology architecture through business alignment and IT strategies.
  • Design and implementation of the enterprise data architecture and reporting capability at a global level.
  • Develop long-term data management processes including data governance, data life cycle management, technical standards, tool selection and integration processes
  • Build and maintain a global data dictionary containing common business definition for each field and clarifying technical versus business terminology
  • Work with the technology management, enterprise architects and other teams to develop road map for the orderly transition to future state
  • Design and create enterprise information solutions and capabilities, such as master data management (MDM), metadata management, Business Intelligence (BI), data integration, and related information management to improve business performance
  • Facilitate the development of a corporate data policy that outlines the appropriate data stewardship and data audit requirements, as well as the service-level agreements, to support the appropriate quality and use of information in business and IT processes
  • Drive technical vision throughout program development, direction and ultimately successful implementation
  • Responsible for conception of solutions, building consensus and the selling of such solutions to senior level leadership
  • Drive the creation of new standards and best practices as technology evolves; communicate and drive adoption across the technical community
  • Assess new technology to determine its viability and applicability within Target's technical environment 

Required skills

  • 10+ years of experience with various information systems disciplines
  • 5+ years of experience in architecture, design and development of technology solutions involving multiple technologies
  • Experience with core technologies, including open standards, database, and integration technologies
  • Ability to contribute functionally and technically to the Data management and Business Intelligence Strategy 
  • Data modelling techniques for large data stores (Relational and Multi-Dimensional); Experience with data modelling tools such as Erwin
  • Strong working experience with business and IT personnel on data-related issues
  • Experience in designing and implementing enterprise data warehouses and large-scale business reporting
  • Well versed with Inmon/Kimball methodologies among other DW principles.
  • Experience with overcoming data quality challenges; Experience in working with ETL tools
  • Ability to communicate (verbally and in writing) and work effectively throughout all levels of the organization
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking and decision making skills
  • Excellent customer relationship management skills
  • Ability to translate technology features and functionality into business value and clearly articulate that value to IT and business leaders
  • Solid knowledge of current technologies, emerging trends, and architectural principles
  • Experience practicing an architecture framework such as The Open Group Architecture (TOGAF) or Zachmann Framework
  • Knowledge of Industry trends, evolving technologies, and best practices; MDM, BI, and data warehouse design and implementation techniques; Data-modelling and information classification expertise at the enterprise level
  • Ability to mentor and coach business users, staff, and teams in information architecture
  • Ability to build collaborative working relationships with executives, business users, internal technical teams, vendors and individuals
  • Hands-on experience in data modelling, including both relational and dimensional modelling
  • Experience with industry standard Business Intelligence tools
  • Bachelor's Degree in IT related discipline or equivalent experience

Full job description available upon request.

Start date
n.a
From
Technology Recruiting Solutions,Inc.
Published at
04.02.2014
Project ID:
660463
Contract type
Freelance
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