Data Architect Job in Dublin South

Data Architect

Would you like to break new ground and innovate with a world-leading company? At DB we value innovation and creativity. As part of our new Centre of Excellence, in a company with 170 years experience in Risk Management and Business Information, you'll have an opportunity to influence the way we do business. You will be working in an environment that is both stimulating, challenging and rewarding utilizing emerging technologies and software.

At DB we have the worlds largest store of business information and so we understand data! Do you understand the potential of data when it is used properly? Do you thrive on finding ways to leverage data using both new and tried and tested techniques? Have you thought about how to keep massive volumes of data updated and consistent across distributed stores? Does data modelling interest you? Can the worlds of structured, semi structured and unstructured data be brought together to create more value?

If you are excited by these concepts, have the confidence to influence, the talent to innovate with the best and the courage to stand up for quality then we want to talk to you.

Role Summary

Understand and execute on our strategic plan for data covering all aspects of the use of data across DBIS. Provide all necessary support and guidance to technical and business partners to ensure that all development work complies with the our standard data architecture.

Key Responsibilities
1 Work with project teams to define and document data architectures that need to be forward looking and innovative. These architectures need to look at emerging technologies (such as NoSQL, distributed caching, replication, in-memory DBs), and data representation and modelling concepts (such as the semantic web and RDF), to provide flexibility, performance and scalability.
2 Work with business and other technology teams to establish accountability for data with respect to ownership of business definitions, adherence to data policies and conformance to standard data architectures.
3 Perform project related data architecture tasks such as defining and documenting new data stores.
4 Support project teams in the creation of source and target data stores, and data transform specifications to define the rules to move data between data stores as required by business rules and metadata definitions.
5 Ensure any differences or non-compliance to standard data architecture raised for resolution

Key Requirements
* Minimum 4 Year technical college degree or equivalent work experience.
* Knowledge of data architecture, design principles and standards.
* 3+ years working experience in Data Architecture within a technology organization.
* Working skills in tools supporting MetaData.
* Experience in data modeling including producing logical and physical data models.
* A clear understanding of relational database management systems and flat file data structures.
* Knowledge in data mapping to entity relationships.
* Strong communication skills. Ability to interact with cross-functional groups in an effective manner and to gain the respect of technology and business professionals alike.
* Self-starting, highly motivated and globally orientated.
* Good analytical skills.
* Strategic thinker with a focus on business requirements and outcome.
* Desire and ability to deliver to aggressive project time scales whilst ensuring that high levels of quality are maintained.

Very Beneficial Experience
* Exposure to NoSQL concepts and implementations (e.g. CouchDB, MongoDB).
* Exposure to semantic web concepts and technologies (e.g. RDF, OWL, Jena).