Hiring: Data Architect | Alberta, Canada | Contract role

Hi,

We are currently hiring for a Data Architect opportunity in Alberta, Canada.

Title: Data Architect
Location: Alberta, Canada
Employment Type: Contract

Working Hours/location:

• Standard Hours of work are 8:15 to 4:30 with a 1 hr lunch break Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the province.
• The expectation will be for the resource to work from the office in Edmonton once a Month when there is a scheduled meeting
• Work must be done within Alberta when working remotely

Job Description:

This position will play a key role in enhancing EPAs Digital Regulatory Assurance System. The position is in a high performing team, working in a fast-paced, agile environment.

A. Reducing duplication in EPEA and WA Monitoring Report Templates

• Identify overlapping parameters, metrics, and calculations across monitoring and reporting templates across programs and regulatory regimes.
• Define and maintain canonical data elements (e.g., facility, authorization, activity, parameter, time, location) to support consistent interpretation and reuse.
• Rationalize template designs to reduce redundancy and prepare them for ingestion into standardized data structures.

B. Designing Streamlined Data Structures

• Translate manual, upload oriented reporting templates into analytics ready data structures, including:

• Object / fact tables (e.g., sample observations, measurements, monitoring events)
• Dimension tables (e.g., facility, source, program, parameter, geography, time)

• Lead and steward the Unified Business Object model for EPEA Approvals and related regulatory domains by defining:

• Core business objects
• Attributes and relationships
• Authoritative definitions shared across DRAS and the DMP

• Define structural standards, including:

• Row level grain
• Column and attribute consistency
• Versioning, corrections, and historical traceability

• Document and maintain a traceable record of architectural decisions and their rationale.
• Translate finalized data model designs into engineering specifications (e.g., schemas, ingestion contracts, transformation expectations, and data quality rules)for the data engineering team, provide design guidance during pipeline build, review platform implementations for structural conformance and surface any deviation from canonical model intent before data reaches analytical layers.

C. Preparing Data for Advanced Analytics (Databricks)

• Design data structures that support advanced analytical use cases, including:

• Aggregation and roll ups
• Trend analysis
• Anomaly and outlier detection
• Future machine learning and predictive use cases

• Ensure data structures are:

• Normalized where semantic clarity and governance are required
• Denormalized where performance and analytical usability matter

• Establish and maintain a structured model feedback loop with the data analysts, including regular review of validation findings, edge case reports, and prototyping results to inform schema evolution decisions.
• Plan for schema evolution, enabling future environmental monitoring and reporting needs to be accommodated with minimal disruption while preserving analytical continuity.

SUBMISSION MUST INCLUDE:

• Resume
• Three references, for whom similar work has been performed, must be provided. The most recent reference should be listed first.
• Attach a College or Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field of study to the end of the resum
• Attach a Certification in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) to the bottom of the resume
• To proceed to the next stage, your resume must clearly describe all required experience within the context of the specific job or project where it was gained. Simply copying the qualification without this explanation will not be sufficient.
• Each job/project must contain the term of the job/project in the format mm/yyyy to mm/yyyy.