Overview
We are seeking a contract Data Architect to join a team focused on public sector services for an initial 6-month period. This remote role involves collaboration with various teams, including business, security, architecture, and engineering, to establish data governance and architecture that supports secure data sharing and management. The Data Architect will play a critical role in defining data models, ensuring compliance with governance standards, and facilitating effective data communication across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver data architecture, data modelling and governance activities.
- Develop conceptual, logical and physical data models, including entities, attributes, relationships and dependencies.
- Define and maintain data schemas, classifications, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and metadata.
- Establish data definitions, ownership, stewardship and authoritative data sources.
- Map and maintain data lineage, provenance, transformations, dependencies and consumption.
- Design scalable, secure and interoperable data structures for data-sharing solutions.
- Translate business, security and governance requirements into data models, classifications and access-control policies.
- Maintain architecture, modelling, metadata, lineage and governance documentation.
Requirements
- Proven experience in data architecture and data modelling, including conceptual and logical data models.
- Strong understanding of data structures, schemas, entities, attributes, relationships and dependencies.
- Experience defining data classifications, taxonomies, business definitions, governance standards and authoritative data sources.
- Experience working with metadata, data catalogues, data lineage and provenance.
- Experience translating business, security and governance requirements into data models, classifications and architecture designs.
- Strong understanding of data lifecycle management, including creation, transformation, sharing, retention and retirement.
- Ability to communicate complex data concepts and architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.