Data Architect

Location:	Johannesburg
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#NG57916
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

A high-performance organisation, that prides itself in attracting the finest talent and challenging itself to find solutions that make a difference in the world, is inviting candidates to apply for the role of Data Architect/Data Modeller. 

Join an environment that is always buzzing with energetic, smart, and motivated people who have a bias for action and truly believe in the core purpose and values of the organisation.

You will be:

• Architecting the data platform layer, data cleansing layer, analytical layers and reporting.
• Understanding model features and linking them back to the transactional environment to understand data quality, data relationships and data availability.

Requirements of the role:

• Provide Data Architecture (DA) support for the Data Engineering team.
• Documenting of DA for new data sources, metadata, and productionised information flow.
• Work closely with the Data Engineer to facilitate Data Governance including access and security control.
• Working closely with the Data Engineers and Data Scientists to facilitate automated Data Quality checks and model drifts.
• Build, design and constant revision of the Model Execution Framework.
• Assist with the definition of custom metadata models for ELT/ETL.
• Profile new data sources in a variety of formats including JSON, XML, etc.
• Define data quality rules with Data Scientists to clean data.
• Define data mapping and transformation rules between the source data warehouse and data lake.

Qualifications and experience:

• Degree/diploma in engineering or software engineering with solid experience in data architecture
• 8 to 15 years of experience is preferred.
• Solution design and system analysis
• Data profiling
• Expert database knowledge in SQL
• Modern data warehouse design skills
• Experience working on large and complex datasets
• DevOps/DataOps and CI/CD experience
• Experience using Ralph Kimball methodology

The reference number for this position is NG57916 which is a Permanent based in Johannesburg offering a cost to company of up to R1.4mil to R1.6mil per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at az.oc.egrem-e@galuhtukon or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 01 Oct 15:00, Closing date 30 Nov