Job Information:
Job ID: 2272
Location: Memphis, Tennessee 38103
Industry: Information Technology, Software
Occupational Category: Information Technology
Position Level: Professional
Education: Some college, no degree
Salary: base: USD
range: 95,000.00 - 155,000.00
Employment Type: Full Time
Description:
Lucas Group is partnering with a manufacturer in Memphis to hire an experienced Data Modeler / Architect.
The Senior Data Modeler / Architect is charged with ensuring the alignment between business and IT strategies, operating model, guiding principles, and software development projects with a focus on the information layer. The SDM works across business lines and IT domains to ensure that information is viewed as a corporate asset and treated as such. This includes its proper data definition, creation, usage, archival and governance. The SDM works with and mentors other architects to design overall solutions in accordance with industry best practices and Companies principles and standards. Working with other team members the team strives to create and improve the quality of systems, provide more flexible solutions, and reduce time-to-market.
- Enhance and maintain Companies information strategy
- Ensure alignment of programs and projects with the strategic Information Roadmap and related strategies
- Perform gap analysis between current data structures and target data structures
- Enhance and maintain the Enterprise Information Model
- Work with service architects and application architects to assist with the creation of proper data access and utilization methods
- Gather complex business requirements and translate product and project needs into data models supporting long-term solutions
- Lead data model peer review sessions for other data modelers / architects throughout the life cycle
- Serve as a technical data strategy expert and lead the creation of technical requirements and design deliverables
- Define and communicate data standards, industry best practices, technologies, and architectures
- Check conformance to standards and resolve any conflicts by explaining and justifying architectural decisions
- Recommend and evaluate new tools and methodologies as needed
- Manage, communicate, and improve the data governance framework
Experience Requirements:
- 15 years’ minimum experience with at least 10 years in data modeling design for complex projects.
- Experience and proficiency in enterprise data modeling for large, high volume systems
- Ability to lead sessions with stakeholders to determine data rules and review data models
- Extensive architecture and design experience with complex applications, preferably in the retail industry, for Relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience working with API Management and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor less experienced members of a Data Architecture team
Responsibilities:
- Design experience using erwin Data Modeler, erwin Web Portal, or other related data modeling tools
- Experience and knowledge of database systems such as Oracle, Postgres, UDB/DB2, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Cassandra
- Data design capability across OLTP, data warehouse, and analytic data stores
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Robust verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to facilitate modeling sessions and communicate appropriately with IT and business customers, varying communication styles according to the audience
- Experience performing data modeling as part of Agile software development
- Experience with large replicated databases across distributed and cloud data centers
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