Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.
Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better TM- Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.
Location: For this role we are open to remote work located anywhere within the United States or Canada.
About The Opportunity
The data architect’s role is to strategically design and manage the infrastructure components related to the data lifecycle. The role will be responsible for standards and models across the enterprise and have oversight of data integrations, storage, modeling and engineering within the data center of excellence. The role will conduct continuous research and make recommendations on platform capabilities, best practices, services, protocols and standards.
This is a high impact role for our organization. As Ceridian evolves as a global entity, we want to ensure we are driving decisions with data. You will get to collaborate across functions to help shape the future of our internal data practice. We are looking for a talented Data Architect that is consultative, collaborative, growth-oriented and has ideally taken their company from on-premise to cloud-based data solutions.
What You'll Get To Do
- Assess and cultivate long-term strategic goals for data in conjunction with data analysts, end users, function leaders, and other key stakeholders
- Coordinate with other technical staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures
- Plan and implement capacity and resource expansion to ensure data scalability
- Design and implement policies, and procedures to ensure effective availability, protection, and integrity of data assets
- Evaluate, recommend, and select data platform components
- Design and manage data platform strategies and growth projects
- Identify data discrepancies and data quality issues, and work to ensure data consistency and integrity
- Diagnose and resolve data access and performance issues
- Manage configurations and performance tuning
- Monitor system details across data marts, procs, pipelines, gateways, flows and reports
Skills And Experience We Value
- 5+ years of demonstrated data engineering and development experience is ideal
- 5+ years of custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance is ideal
- Proficiency in design and implementation of advance data integrations, schemas and models
- Experience with Azure data stack & ecosystem is strongly preferred - ie. Working experience with Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, ML
- We are open to other data ecosystems like AWS given the right skill set
- Experience with Power BI and other data visualization tools
- Knowledge of API led architectures is ideal
- Experience implementing data solutions in agile, development environments is ideal
What’s in it for you
Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment.
We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions.
Dayforce employees and their families are eligible to participate in the following benefits programs: medical, dental, vison, and life insurance. Dayforce employees are also eligible to participate in a 401k plan (plus match) and a Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Employees also receive unlimited Time Away From Work (in lieu of accrued vacation time), 10 paid US holidays, up to 80 hours of paid sick time and 17 weeks of paid parental leave, subject to the terms of the applicable policy or program.
With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.
About The Salary Ranges
Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.
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