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CORE JOB SUMMARY The Enterprise Data Architect 1 - Central designs and supports the business intelligence (BI) applications and architecture to maximize the usefulness, availability, and accuracy of data. The incumbent also works collaboratively with business stakeholders to design, implement, and test data-centric applications, data warehouses, and data integration environments. CORE JOB FUNCTIONS 1. Defines, creates, and implements the strategically aligned data architecture roadmap for the University, including short-term, mid-term, and long-term plans and objectives. 2. Defines and documents the technical architecture of the data warehouse and BI, including the physical components and their functionality. Provides guidance and integration for BI products and services. 3. Participates in the delivery of numerous key business objectives, including ease of information access, and regulatory and enterprise reporting. 4. Works with business and system analysts, business and technical data users, data warehouse and system design developers, ETL developers, and other stakeholders to execute project tasks. 5. Maintains and enforces best practices to facilitate optimized ETL transfer of information, data modeling, and warehouse design. 6. Develops and recommends integration architectures that minimize data redundancy and maximize "use in place" data. 7. Translates business requirements into technical designs to meet business criteria for successful BI implementations. 8. Establishes data and architecture standards for all BI initiatives across the organization. 9. Assists in development and maintenance of standards for naming, describing, governing, managing, modeling, storing, cleansing, and transforming data. 10. Evaluates new data sources for adherence to the organization's quality standards and ease of integration. 11. Troubleshoots and resolves performance issues with overall data infrastructure. 12. Reviews and suggests improvement to the data architecture processes, policies, and vision. 13. Explores new and emerging technologies and stays current on the capabilities of vendor products. 14. Coordinates multiple architects responsible for the development, integration, administration, and evolution of the data warehouse. 15. Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets. This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary. CORE QUALIFICATIONS Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required Experience: Minimum 6 years of relevant experience required Certification and Licensing: Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

This is a core job profile description and is not reflective of all duties that may be assigned to a specific position in each individual department. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and primary responsibilities of this core job profile. Specific duties and tasks may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job.

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Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Staff