Overview
The Data Architect will lead the design, governance, and evolution of corporate data platforms and data integration ecosystems, ensuring alignment between business needs, enterprise architecture, and modern data engineering practices.
Tasks Summary
- Lead the design and evolution of enterprise data architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses, data mesh/data fabric, and analytics platforms.
- Define data architecture principles, standards, patterns, and governance frameworks.
- Drive adoption of modern cloud data technologies across AWS and Azure.
- Design data models (conceptual, logical, physical).
- Integrate data domains with the WFP Digital Core and API ecosystem.
- Identify modernization and migration opportunities.
- Partner with DevOps teams to enhance CI/CD for data services.
- Support secure data architecture design including classification, encryption, lineage, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity teams.
- Promote enterprise-wide data quality and metadata governance.
- Lead architectural reviews for data-related proposals and provide coaching on data architecture to various teams.
- Maintain architecture documentation.
- Identify emerging technologies.
- Perform other related duties.
Experience Requirements
- 8+ years in enterprise data ecosystems, cloud data architectures, data governance, modeling, API ecosystems, secure data solutions.
- Broad, conceptual understanding of data architecture trends with demonstrated proficiency of technologies, frameworks and languages.
- Cloud-native services (AWS Glue, Redshift, Synapse), ETL/ELT, streaming, SQL, Python, CI/CD, metadata tools, communication skills.
- Knowledge of various data platforms on ERP. E.g. Datasphere on SAP
- In-depth knowledge of digital technology matters (e.g. APIs, SDK, DevOps, UX, big data, ETL, Analytics, AI & Cloud Solutions).
- Experience writing technical articles, giving presentations, explaining technology.
- Knowledge Transfer Management is required.
- Mastery in developing software solutions.
- Excellent Communications Skills.
- Coaching Skills is desirable.
Qualification Requirements
University degree or a post-secondary education combined with a minimum of 8 years of equivalent working experience in software development or other related fields.
