Solutions Architect at Salt South Africa

As a recognized data engineering authority the Solution Architect collaborates in data engineering standards & controls and creates the data engineering architecture for the target environments to deliver data pipelines into the bigger Business Intelligence environments. Extensive subject matter knowledge of data engineering is essential, as well as ETL, relational databases, data warehousing and big data. The solution architect will collaborate closely with the data, integration and analytics teams

JOB OBJECTIVES

Define and continuously improve the data engineering architecture framework and solution architecture 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.

Define and create solution level data engineering architecture models that enable specific BI and analytics requirements.

• Analyze the inputs and outputs of BI and analytics and create related Data engineering architectures and designs for the baseline (“as is”) and target (“to be”) solution architectures.
• Coordinate with system analysts, development teams and DBAs to ensure creation of physical database and an optimal implementation of the data engineering design.
• Define data engineering architecture governance processes and quality compliance criteria.
• Perform quality assurance checks on Data engineering Architectures and Designs and enforce quality compliance criteria to set policies and standards.
• Perform quality checks on existing Data Engineering Architectures and Designs to identify potential business risks areas and make re-engineering recommendations.
• Ensure Data engineering security conforms to Information Security Governance policies and standards. 

Provide expert data engineering guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the data engineering technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.

• Define and develop the overall data engineering architecture landscape in partnership with the Domain Architect, Data Analytics team and other Solution Architects.
• Review proposed solution architectures ensuring alignment with architecture principles, the architecture framework, cloud reference architectures, set technology standards and identify critical gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Give guidance and advice to peers in respect to data engineering solution designs ensuring the designs conform to industry best practices and standards