Data Architect

Company: Evoke Research and Consulting
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

Evoke is seeking a Technology Architect to join our team!

Evoke Research and Consulting is a federal management consulting firm specializing in three core services areas including management consulting, IT consulting, and Business Process Reengineering. We provide solutions to federal government agencies and entities, including the Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Veterans Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, and US Marine Corps.

We are a diverse employee-focused firm that is committed to providing a wide range of opportunities for our employees to grow professionally and socially including mentoring and internal Communities of Practice. Our employees are hard-working, team-oriented, and come from multiple backgrounds and experience levels. We value our employees' ideas and welcome suggestions for change and development as a firm.

Description:

Evoke is seeking a Technology Architect. This individual will work closely with a large team of architects to improve the ways data are defined, developed, managed and used. This position will support a Federal Civilian government agency in delivering its mission. The role requires deep data architecture subject matter expertise and a close partnership with federal employees. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data architecture, data governance, data modeling and design, data security, metadata management, data integration, data standards, data quality and data warehousing. Candidate should have experience in evaluating and applying new data technologies and standards. Candidate must be comfortable managing client relationships and expectations within a complex organization where multiple stakeholder needs must be balanced. Specific experience in cloud-based data architectures and migrating data from traditional to cloud-based solutions is desirable. The candidate must be flexible, patient, disciplined, and positive. Excellent written and oral presentation skills are needed to guide and influence others.

Responsibilities:

• Work effectively and influence a large organization with diverse functional and technical disciplines including business representatives, enterprise architects, systems engineers, business analysts, developers, testers, and systems operations staff.
• Work and communicate with senior business and IT leaders to present ideas and gain alignment on data capabilities and implementation plans.
• Coordinate resolution of highly complex problems and tasks, selling new ideas and concepts in support of operational goals and objectives
• Provide data-related technical and analytic guidance to key stakeholders
• Integrate and translate complex concepts into tactical action plans
• Guide high-level enterprise data analysis, evaluation, design, integration, documentation, and development activities
• Define means of automating the full lifecycle of data management across the enterprise Required:
  • 10 years' of related experience as a data architect demonstrating data-related technical expertise, including expertise with large enterprise data development practices, large scale data governance and process improvement. Experience should include at least one of the following technologies: Tableau, Informatica, AWS (e.g., Redshift, Aurora RDS PostgreSQL, Glue, DMS, Lambda), Jenkins, or Apache Airflow.
  • 6 years with an advanced degree
  • Executive communication/presentation, relationship management, project management, strong analytical skills
  • Experience with multiple data development and management methods
  • Experience with business transformation and processes, including business process improvement methods and tools DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
    • Experience in migrating data solutions from traditional data centers to cloud hosting
    • Experience in driving the introduction and adoption of new enterprise-level data platforms and tooling
    • Experience with enterprise-level metadata definition management
    • Experience in large-scale, automate test data management
    • Government consulting experience CERTIFICATIONS:
      • None required
      • Data Management Association (DAMA) International Certified Data Management Professional (CMDP) (Desirable)
      • Other data-related certification for analytics, big data, cloud, or specific technologies (Desirable)
        
        Evoke Research and Consulting, LLC requires all employees to be full vaccinated against COVID-19, except in limited circumstances where an employee illegally entitled to an exception or accommodation to the vaccination requirement based upon a disability, medical condition, or sincerely held religious belief.
        
        Evoke is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive considered for employment without regard to race, color, sex, citizenship, national origin, ancestry sexual oriented, gender identity, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any additional.

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