Lead Data Architect
The Lead Data Architect drives enterprise-wide data strategy and data governance, defines data architectural standards, oversees data transformation, manages compliance, and optimizes data flows. Expert in data architecture, IT governance, data strategy and technical leadership.
Expected tasks
- Define, model and maintain data pipelines
- Build dashboards and business KPIs
- Ensure data quality, consistency and freshness
- Analyze user behavior to drive product decisions
- Collaborate with business teams to translate needs into data
- Document the data model and ETL flows
- Set up and evolve the data warehouse
Required skills
Knowledge
Data Architecturedata-warehousingdata-lakesetl-eltData Modeling
Hard skills
SQLPythonScalaJavaApache SparkHadoopPostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearchRedis
Soft skills
Strategic ThinkingDecision MakingProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingCommunication
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