This is a remote position.

Client is seeking a Senior Data Architect to provide architectural leadership supporting the OneData Alberta and Crosswalk initiatives, which enable a federated enterprise data ecosystem using Data Fabric / Data Mesh frameworks across cloud and on-premise environments.

• Lead enterprise and solution architecture for data platforms and data products
  
• Define enterprise data models, architecture standards, and best practices
  
• Translate business priorities into scalable architecture solutions
  
• Provide thought leadership in data management and analytics architecture
  

• Design and support data products within Data Fabric / Data Mesh frameworks
  
• Implement data linkage and crosswalk frameworks
  
• Establish metadata management and data quality frameworks
  
• Support AI-enabled data asset architecture
  
• Develop proof-of-concept integration and orchestration solutions
  

• Facilitate workshops and discovery sessions
  
• Provide architectural guidance to technical and business stakeholders
  
• Present recommendations to steering committees
  
• Build consensus across technical and business groups
  

• Promote best practices in governance, integration, sharing, and quality
  
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives
  
• Recommend emerging technologies
  
• Ensure alignment with security, privacy, and classification standards
  

• Review architecture designs, pipelines, and data models
  
• Guide optimization and performance improvements
  
• Support scalable data product delivery frameworks
  
• Manage risks, tasks, and escalation items
  

• Mentor architecture and engineering teams
  
• Promote innovation culture
  
• Strengthen stakeholder relationships
  
• Support enterprise adoption of data-as-a-strategic-asset mindset
  

Requirements

Education

• Degree / diploma / certification in relevant discipline
  

Experience

Minimum:

• 5+ years defining technical architecture and data integration solutions
  
• 5+ years designing and supporting data platforms
  
• 5+ years working across architecture domains:
  • business
    
  • application
    
  • technology
    
• 5+ years modelling complex business processes into architecture solutions
  
• 3+ years explaining complex data architecture principles to stakeholders
  

Nice-to-Have Requirements

Strong preference for candidates with:

• Data product delivery experience (curated datasets, analytics assets)
  
• Machine learning / data science architecture support experience
  
• Data technology roadmap development experience
  
• Workshop facilitation and stakeholder leadership experience
  
• Business requirement analysis and solution architecture experience
  
• Experience enabling teams through training/documentation
  
• Experience with Cloudera Data Platform
  
• Experience with TOGAF
  
• Public sector experience
  
• Data privacy and security controls implementation experience