Enterprise Data Architect

Key Accountabilities / Activities:

Define enterprise data architecture vision, strategy, principles and standards; get buy-in from stake-holders, management, business partners, and propagate throughout the company.
Provide framework, stewardship, governance and decision making for management of data for project development teams, business users and other stake-holders.
Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.
Deliver a road map to achieve the vision.

Develop enterprise data management methodology and standards, and promote to both technology and business throughout the company.
Over time, create appropriate standards, processes and tools to promote and facilitate:
- Mapping of data sources
- Documenting interfaces and data movement
Designing the movement of data through the enterprise:
- Defining integrative views of data especially for analytic purposes
Focus on data quality:
- Put in place governance processes around meta-data to ensure an integrated definition of data for enterprise information, and to ensure the accuracy, validity, and reusability of meta-data.
- Participate in developing consistent definitions for common reference data.
- Establish measures to chart progress related to completeness and quality of meta-data for enterprise information, to support reduction of data redundancy and fragmentation, elimination of unnecessary movement of data, and improvement of data quality.
- Provide input on large-scale projects and road maps for compatibility with the vision.
- Drive selection of data management tools, and the development of standards, usage guidelines and procedures for those tools.
- Define the process to resolve cross-organizational data management issues.

Provide consulting support for the roll-out of meta-data management processes and tools.
Define meta-data checklists and requirements to be met at the project level and to be included in project plans.
Management of the relationship with project teams using / implementing meta-data management processes.
Provide support on use of common enterprise information models and promote their use and enhancement by new projects.

10 or more years experience as a Data or Information Architect
Proven track record in implementing enterprise meta-data management processes and tools and for managing meta-data for decision-support and operational systems.
Familiarity with meta-data management tools – enterprise repository tools, data modeling tools and data profiling tools.
Experience with the complete information system life cycle.
Three or more years experience in a management capacity.
Ability to deal with all levels of the business.