Enterprise Data Architect

Job description / Role

Enterprise Data Architect - Attractive Salary – Dubai, UAE

Client is one of the largest company in GCC is urgently seeking services of Enterprise Data Architect to lead the information management strategy ensuring the design, creation, deployment and management of the organisations data. This role will be responsible for setting the data architecture strategy & vision and for managing day-to-day tactical operations of the BI team.

Successful candidates will have proven experience in fulfilling a wide range of Enterprise and Solution Level Architecture activities. As Enterprise Architects, they will work with client Architects and Business teams to develop strategic roadmaps which deliver against the clients overall Business Strategy. Excellent interpersonal and political skills will be key, as will the ability to demonstrate thought leadership in both Enterprise Architecture and the Retail Industry.

Responsibilities
- Deliver class leading retail architecture, thought leadership and quality consulting to Retail Reply’s clients.
- Lead retail architecture strategy definition, architecture delivery and provide architecture management where necessary.

Capability Development
- Lead the design and subsequent management of a centralized BI centre of excellence, ensuring alignment with the overall strategy and quality standards.
- Oversee the development of Source-to-Target Mappings for data flowing into the BI Platform using ETL tool frameworks.
- Implement a Data Quality discipline for transactional and multi-dimensional reporting, across all responsible systems, to ensure confidence when analyzing BI data to drive business decisions as well as ensuring overall alignment.
- Maintain and improve technical knowledge through research of emerging technologies in order to recommend technologies that will enhance company’s business intelligence and IT data management in line with industry standards and cost efficiencies.
- Develop and execute test plans to check the business intelligence and IT data management performance, report findings, and make recommendations for improvement if required.
- Participate in the root cause, problem and solution analysis of business intelligence and IT data management solutions post-implementation to ensure high performance
- Collaborates with the Head of PMO to review project performance and identify opportunities for improvement in data management, integration and duplication.
- Develop and implement standards and processes for ensuring data quality.

Architecture Management
- Be confident in presenting data architecture and strategy to both and IT and the wider business.
- Create & maintain data architecture, data management standards and conventions, data naming standards, and metadata standards.
- Perform a key management and thought leadership role in the areas of advanced data techniques, including data modeling, data access, data integration, data visualization, text mining, data discovery, statistical methods, database design and implementation.
- Maintains an inventory of information subject to data protection and other appropriate legislation.
- Lead the development of scalable data architecture for all of the BI data assets, including operational data stores and the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
- Develop and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models.
- Lead logical data model workshops with business users to derive at a logical data model that correctly reflects the business.
- Leading the development in line with legislative requirements and the implementation of data governance policies and practices within to protect company as an operating entity.
- Lead the documentation and standardization of new/existing architecture processes and data standards to ensure appropriate use and maintenance in line with quality standards.
- Devises and implements document and record management systems, including classification, retrieval and retention processes.
- Conceptual understanding on the emerging BI technologies, Bigdata, IOT are an added advantage.

Requirements

- A minimum of 10 to 12 years of progressively responsible experience in a directly related area, during which both professional and management capabilities have been clearly demonstrated.
- Extensive expertise in Oracle/MySQL database, as well as data modeling, both logical and physical.
- Demonstrated experience or working knowledge of an Enterprise architecture tool, such as: Orbus iServer, Sparx EA or IBM Rationa.
- Extremely strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Be a business-focused, creative, innovative pragmatic and positive team player.
- Outstanding verbal, written and visual presentation skills.
- Proven strong negotiating and consensus building abilities.
- Proven skills to work effectively across internal functional areas.
- Structured thinker and effective communicator, comfortable with interacting with customers
- Ability to work independently, establishing strategic objectives, project plans and milestone goals
- Retail data and analytics knowledge is a plus
- Experience using with project management, ITIL and SDLC methodologies
- Solid experience with Data Warehouse and BI systems; extensive experience for collecting business requirements from customers, and transform the requirements into DB data processes and data schema
- Knowledge of relational SQL databases and SQL in at least one of the following environments: Oracle. Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL
- A good working knowledge of e-commerce and an understanding of total cost ownership of IT assets and functions
- Have a detailed understanding of key data, BI & Central Systems technologies and techniques. A good appreciation of solution architecture, software and solution delivery practices, IT infrastructure and application architecture.
- Familiarity with patterns, practices and frameworks of Enterprise Architecture.
- Clear experience of defining and delivering BI and Analytics platforms / solutions including semi-structured, unstructured data analytics and support for data science use cases.
- An understanding of how data architecture and integration architecture align and complement one another, across a broad range of integration patterns & approaches

About the Company

Blake Anderson is a boutique consultancy based in the UK, with a satellite office in Dubai. Specialising in Technical and Construction Recruitment, Blake Anderson provides a superior service to clients and candidates within the construction and technical sectors.

We concentrate on placing professionals throughout the world, focusing mainly on the Middle East and Asia, drawing on both the global and local markets for highly qualified professionals. In order to attract the best talent, we invest in various high-end advertising mediums.

With a database of 1,000's of candidates, our experienced consultants have a wealth of recruitment knowledge and have a consultative approach at all times, ensuring a second to none service.