Data Architect Full-time Job
Aug 28th, 2024 at 16:12 IT & Telecoms Toronto 73 views Reference: 8783Job Details
We are looking for a Data Architect to develop roadmaps, plans, and ultimately deliver our Transit Operations data strategy by working closely with internal teams and leading managed services providers. This is both a strategic and tactical hands-on role, so we need someone with a unique combination of relationship, leadership, analytical, and technical skills.
What will I be doing?
- Work with senior leaders to define, recommend, and implement a data strategy and roadmap
- Effectively set and manage stakeholder expectations, gathering requirements for data projects
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, data owners, and data stewards across various business divisions as well as delivery partners
- Identify data sources and analyze them with subject matter experts and business partners
- Prepare documentation needed for the delivery lifecycle and handover to users and operations
- Provide input to and perform aspects of the hands-on implementation with solution providers to stay relevant in the technology and maintain the solutions
- Handle real-time streaming data and manage Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in compliance with regulatory requirements
- Implement data pipelines and build and support our data platform and data deliveries
- Automate data pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Implement machine learning models, develop Business Intelligence reports, and then train and support AI/ML models
What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?
- Completion of a degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent
- Experience in actively contributing to the success of mid-to-large complex initiatives delivering business critical solutions
- Excellent communication skills, a positive attitude, and endless curiosity
- Strong relationship management, partnership building, and facilitation skills
- Proficiency in enterprise data solutions including data modeling, pipeline creation, automation, deployment, and troubleshooting
- Ability to clearly articulate ideas, communicate data architecture, and deliver directions to both a business and a technical audience
- Expertise in data science, data integration, and data warehousing strategies, methodologies, practices, product lifecycles, and tools
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in SQL, Python, Power BI, Power Platform
- In-depth skills with Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, SQL DB, Synapse, and Databricks
- Strong problem solving, quantitative, and analytical solution design abilities
- Leadership skills to monitor and manage people including contractors and vendors
- Experience with data architecture patterns, automated data validation tools and processes
- Ability to coach and mentor technical professionals
- Experience integrating data into Azure from cloud-based and on-prem source systems
- Experience authoring data governance materials, user, and technical documentation
- Proficiency with project collaboration tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Confluence
- Azure ML experience beneficial
Don’t Meet Every Requirement?
If you’re excited about working with Metrolinx but your past experience doesn’t quite align with every qualification of this posting, we encourage you to apply. You just might be the right candidate for this or other roles. We are always looking for great talent to join our team.
Company Description
Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Torontos subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
