Position Description:

CGI is looking for a Functional Data Architect to join our team.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

The Data Architect is to support the work for ensuring that systems are designed, upgraded, managed, de-commissioned and archived in compliance with data policy across the full data life cycle. This includes complying with the data strategy and undertaking the design of data models and supporting the management of metadata.

Main Tasks:
• Structures the information in the Information System, i.e. the way information is grouped, as well as the navigation methods and the terminology used within the Information Systems of the entity, as defined by the lead data architects
• Creates and manages data models in all their forms, including conceptual models, functional database designs, message models and others in compliance with the data framework policy
• Allows people to step logically through the Information System, confident they are getting closer to the information they require
• Contribute and enrich the Data Architecture framework through the material collected during his/her studies, projects and IT validations

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Technical Skills:
Data Modelling
• Produces data models and understands where to use different types of data models. Understands different tools and is able to compare between different data models
• Able to reverse engineer a data model from a live system. Understands industry recognized data modelling patterns and standards. Understands the concepts and principles of data modelling and is able to produce, maintain and update relevant data models for specific business needs.
Data Standards
• Develops and sets data standards for an organization
• Communicates the business benefit of data standards, championing and governing those standards across the organization
• Develops data standards for a specific component. Analyses where data standards have been applied or breached and undertakes an impact analysis of that breach
Metadata Management
• Understands a variety of metadata management tools. Designs and maintains the appropriate metadata repositories to enable the organization to understand their data assets
• Works with metadata repositories to complete and Maintains it to ensure information remains accurate and up to date
• The objective is to manage own learning and contribute to domain knowledge building
Turning business problems into data design
• Works with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into data designs. Creates optimal designs through iterative processes, aligning user needs with organizational objectives and system requirements
• Designs data architecture by dealing with specific business problems and aligning it to enterprise-wide standards and principles. Works within the context of well understood architecture and identifies appropriate patterns

Soft Skills:
• Communicating between the technical and the non-technical
• Is able to communicate effectively across organizational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. Makes complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non- technical audiences. Is able to advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity, and can respond to challenge
• Able to effectively translate and accurately communicate across technical and non- technical stakeholders as well as facilitating discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics

Skills: Data Architecture What you can expect from us:

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