Data Architect

Essential Duties: Understand and translate business needs into data models and data architecture supporting long-term solutions. Work with the Application Development team to implement data strategies, build data flows and development of data models. Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models using best practices to ensure high data quality and reduced redundancy, along with corresponding metadata. Optimise and update logical and physical data models to support new and existing projects. Develop best practices for standard naming conventions and coding practices to ensure consistency of data models. Organized and rigorous with versioning of documentation and models to ensure consistent delivery and understanding between the client and development team. Recommend opportunities for reuse of data models in new environments. Perform reverse engineering of physical data models from databases and SQL scripts. Evaluate data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies.