Overview
Skills
Job Details
Title: Data / BI Architect
Client: Public Sector
Location: Oakland County, MI (Hybrid)
Skills Required
Experience in architecting data solutions that can be used for descriptive, diagnostic, predictive & prescriptive analytic solutions.
Work closely with business & IT stakeholders to gather req & translate business needs into tech specifications, including identification of data sources.
Architect & implement scalable, secure & efficient data solutions, including data warehouses, data lakes, and/or data marts.
Design conceptual, logical & physical data models.
Evaluate, recommend & implement tools aligned with recommended architecture, including visualization tools aligned with business needs.
Design, develop & test data pipelines, integrations to source mgt & ETL / ELT processes to move data from various sources into the data warehouse.
Design, create & maintain an enterprise-wide data catalog, automating metadata ingestion, establishing data dictionaries, and ensuring that all data assets are properly documented & tagged.
Enforce data governance policies through the data catalog, ensuring data quality, security & compliance.
Enable self-service data discovery for users by curating & organizing data assets in an intuitive way.
Monitor & optimize BI systems & data pipelines to ensure high performance, reliability & cost-effectiveness.
Provide technical guidance & mentorship across the organization, establishing best practices for data mgt & BI development.
Data Platforms: DW & lake concepts incl. dimensional modeling & cloud services (S3, AWS Redshift, RDS, Azure Data Lake Storage, Synapse Analytics, BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, Informatica); Databases: SQL & relational/non-relational (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB); BI Tools: Power BI, Business Objects, Tableau, Crystal, Looker; ETL/ELT: Cloud native (AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, Google Cloud Dataflow) & in-warehouse transform tools (Fivetran, Talend, dbt); Big Data Tech: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka; Programming/API: Python, Keras, Scikit-learn, R, XML; ML/DL/Analytic Engines: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Trillium, Apache Spark; Modeling Tools: MS Visio, ER/Studio, PowerDesigner; Source systems incl. on-prem, cloud, & SaaS