Solutions Architect - Data Engineering at Datacentrix

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• Our client is looking for a Solution Architect in Data Engineering to create data engineering architecture in order to deliver data pipelines into the bigger Business Intelligence environment.

Responsibilities:

• Define and continuously improve the data engineering architecture framework and modeling standards.
• Define a structured data engineering architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
• Architect the next-generation Big Data analytics framework developed on a group of core technologies.
• Align to the enterprise data reference architecture in support of the enterprise and regulatory information governance needs such as Information Security, Enterprise Information Management, POPI, PCI, etc.
• Identify, define, and communicate standards, guidelines, formats, meta-models, policies, best practices, and governance practices for Data Engineering architectures and designs.
• Ensure that the Data Engineering approach integrates into the methodologies and processes of the rest of the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Stay abreast of best practices and/or new developments in Data engineering and related disciplines and drive adoption as deemed appropriate

Qualifications and Experience required:

• Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar)
• 5+ years Experience with IT projects from an Information and Data architecture and design perspective (SDLC).
• 5+ years of demonstrable experience in Data Engineering Architecture
• 5+ years Proven experience creating data engineering solutions, building and maintaining reliable and scalable ETL on big data platforms as well as experience working with varied forms of data infrastructures
• 3+ years of proven experience with data engineering in a cloud environment AWS/Azure/Google.
• 5+ years Experience in various data modeling paradigms (dimensional, data vault, normalized, NoSQL)
• 3+ years Experience in implementing and using EA tools and EA meta-model definition (ARIS Preferable/ or Sparx Enterprise Architect)