Job Description :
Role: Data Architect
Location: Greenbelt MD
Duration: 6 months + 2 extension for 6 months
Years of Experience: 13+ years
Education Requirements: BS/MS with 13-15+ years
Program Description: Support to accelerate Information Technology (IT) modernization, improve the public knowledge, and reduce legacy IT spending across the Government. CoE accomplishes this by centralizing top government tech talent, leveraging private-sector best practices, and operating with a teaming mindset across Government departments and agencies.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the team towards review and analysis of current systems at place, enterprise architecture diagrams and blueprints, in order to capture "as-is" current state observations and process requirements
* Evaluate latest & greatest solution offerings for their relevance and suitability to define strategies for data management maturity analysis, data asset inventory, and related artifacts
* Define enterprise data strategy and sketch "to-be" modernization plan aligned with enterprise mission/vision, and compliant with industry recommendations and best practices
* Baselining of current data applications, and alignment of future state recommendations and planned solution to meet business objective
* Interact with customer stakeholders at regular intervals to discuss data-centric challenges and struggle factors, its related impact, and remediation plans
* Validate and ensure data strategy is aligned to deliver fundamental elements of High-Availability, Scalability, Elasticity,Fault-Tolerance, ease to operate & maintain
* Suggest and educate industry-proven methodologies to bring efficiency and order among "data-chaos" avenues
Required Skills:
* Worked extensively to architect, design, model, build solutions around management, processing, analytics, orchestration, integration of various data elements across enterprise
* Wide working experience to capture organizational data flow between and across business applications to identify as-is current state data footprint, sketch to-be data solution blueprint, and devise plan to achieve the same
* Led a diversified team of Data Specialist(s), Business Analyst(s),Data Engineer(s), S/W Developer(s), Infra Engineer to design and deliver data-centric solutions
Preferred Skills
* Data visualization and data migration
* Database management system software
* Databases such as NoSQL and cloud computing
* Information management and data processing on multiple platforms
* Machine learning
* Data mining and modeling tools, especially ERWin, Enterprise Architect, and Visio
Soft Skills:
* Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.
* Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.
* Leadership: Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges. Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization. [THIS IS ONLY APPLICABLE TO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS]
* Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.
* Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.
* Problem Solving: Natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics. [THIS IS ONLY APPLICABLE TO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS] Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.
* Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.
             

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