Role purpose
Develop client data-architecture recommendations, models, standards and transition designs that align business needs, security, interoperability and QDKC requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver QDKC-aligned client work using the official guides, templates and frameworks relevant to the engagement.
- Assess client evidence, facilitate workshops and produce traceable recommendations or implementation deliverables.
- Develop with client stakeholders current- and target-state architecture views and transition plans.
- For client engagements, design conceptual, logical and physical models and integration patterns.
- Facilitate and document client decisions on architecture principles, standards, reference patterns and design decisions.
- Review client evidence and advise on solution designs for quality, interoperability, security and reuse.
- Transfer knowledge to client personnel and document decisions, assumptions, dependencies and handover requirements.
- Respect client governance: consultants advise, facilitate and deliver, but do not replace the client's accountable owners, approvers or governance bodies.
Recommended minimum requirements
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems or a related field.
Experience: Typically 6-10 years in data architecture, data modeling, solution architecture or data engineering.
Core competencies: Data modeling, Architecture methods, Integration and APIs, Database and platform design, Security-by-design, Stakeholder communication
Preferred certifications
Preferred, but not mandatory:
- TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner
- CDMP Practitioner with Data Modeling and Design specialty
Focus areas
Data modelingArchitecture methodsIntegration and APIs
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