Azure Data Architect
Category: Analytics and Emerging Digital Technologies
Main location: United States, Louisiana, Lafayette
Alternate Location(s): United States,
United States, Virginia, Fairfax
United States, Texas, Dallas
United States, District of Columbia,
United States, Tennessee, Knoxville
Position ID: J1123-0904
Employment Type: Full Time
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Position Description:
CGI has an immediate need for an Azure Data Architect. Become part of a team to help a large data warehouse cloud transformation to support the digital transformation capabilities and data analytics reporting capabilities for one of CGIs financial services clients. CGI is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to support this large transformation project.
Location: This is a remote role that will require travel to the client site during the transformation project.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
How you’ll make an impact
• Lead by example and be hands on working closely with the team giving them technical direction and help with issue resolutions to keep the team focused on the solution
• Facilitate the establishment and execution of the roadmap and vision for information delivery and management; including the enterprise data warehouse, big data, BI & analytics, content management and data management.
• Lead data engineers to architect and deliver the solutions that fulfill the Business information needs and align with the information vision and strategy.
• Apply business strategy while driving technology strategy, balancing short term and long term needs to ensure that the architecture can scale and evolve accordingly.
• Engage an end-to-end approach by connecting all the pieces of data to deliver the data while leveraging all available assets.
• Provide advice, guidance, direction, and authorization to carry out major plans and procedures to ensure schedule attainment, product development process adherence, and performance and budget targets are met.
• Take an active role in the performance management process by completing goal setting, interim review, and year-end review on a timely basis and soliciting ongoing feedback
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
What you’ll bring
• 8-10+ years of hands-on experience as an Data Architect, Data Engineer (Lead Developer), or similar role for large scale, complex enterprise data warehousing solutions using agile practices. Experience with both development and infrastructure efforts.
• Solid understanding of and experience with provisioning and managing infrastructure as well as data applications in Azure environments.
• Have experience in implementing data warehouse cloud transformations and data analytics tools like Power BI and Tableau.
• Assist with performing security assessments and in mitigating risks during development and, implementation
• Experience with technologies like Data Factory, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, DevSecOps and related Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, JIRA, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, GitHub, Puppet, Git, Terraform, Splunk and others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in working in an agile environment
• Experience in leading by example and being a “hands on” member of the team
• Experience in directing and managing technical solutioning
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science or related field
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Let’s talk about benefits
• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Member assistance and wellness programs
“CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $97,700 - $192,400.”
Skills:
Data Architecture
Data Warehousing
Technical Architecture
What you can expect from us:
Insights you can act on
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