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JOB SPECIFICATION - ACTIVE VACANCY
Job RefAlt_Sol_128
Job TitleData Architect
Vacancy Closing Date2025-11-30
Position Start Date2026-01-05
CountrySouth Africa
CompanyAlteram Solutions (AS)
ExecSolutions and Business Development
Position LocationKwazulu Natal
Employment EquityNot Applicable
Annual Income (Cost To Company)Market Related
Job Type Contract
Duration of Contract 1-2 Yrs
Overview Of Role

We are urgently looking for a Data Architect to be based at one of our clients in KZN for a period of 18 months.

Responsibilities

  • Translate strategic requirements into a usable enterprise information architecture, which mayinclude an enterprise data model, associated metamodel, common business vocabulary,ontologies, and taxonomies, which will then be used to guide enterprise solution developmentand achieve consistency of information assets across the application portfolio.

  • Develop a metadata management and repository strategy to manage all enterprise informationarchitecture project artefacts.

  • When necessary, oversee mapping of enterprise information architecture models to packageapplication models, to determine impact or assess the suitability of vendor solutions to enterpriseinformation architecture requirements.

  • Facilitate the mapping and auditability of information assets as they flow from upstream legacy,package, or custom development and interfaces to downstream analytical applications, thusensuring optimal transparency, quality, consistency, and controlled redundancy across theenterprise.

  • Facilitate the definition of integrative and canonical views of data or information across multiplecontent types (structured, semi-structured, XML, or unstructured) to support convergence ofinformation asset migration planning or impact analysis.

  • Participate in the definition of technical standards and guidelines that pertain to data andinformation use, security, access, and governance (including defining accountabilities in supportof data quality mandates).

  • Ensure existing data/information assets are identified, stewarded, and leveraged across theenterprise.

  • Ensure the enterprise information architecture maps to the enterprise architecture.

  • Ensure a focus on information/data quality by developing and publishing enterprise data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming conventions, data standards, transformation rules, and related enterprise consistency specifications.

  • Construct, refine, and maintain information models, as needed, to meet business requirements.

  • Ensure timely and appropriate information models exist to aid projects.

  • Develop a model management strategy in support of enterprise reuse and data-sharing objectives.

  • Validate audit objectives and assist with the creation of audit plans to ensure continued data integrity and transparency.

  • Establish guidelines for reporting procedures on the reuse of enterprise information architecture artefacts.

  • Analyze information to evaluate the effectiveness of controls, determine the accuracy of reports, and monitor the efficiency and security of operations.

  • Review audit reports to ensure findings and recommendations are acted on.

  • Coordinate new development activities and ensure they are consistent and well-integrated with the established enterprise information architecture, using metadata management and/or a repository to promote reuse and standards adoption.

  • Facilitate consistent business analysis, information acquisition, analysis and design, data access analysis and design, archiving and recovery strategies, security, and change management at the enterprise level.

  • Assist in post-implementation continuous-improvement efforts to enhance performance and provide increased functionality.

  • Participate in key project design reviews as part of the methodology process to ensure application designs adhere to enterprise information architecture guidelines.

  • Review corporate data sources for new business information and better sources of data feeds.

  • Interface with the business community and provide ongoing status reports.

  • Monitor regulatory guidelines (such as consumer privacy issues) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.

  • Monitor compliance and related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.

  • Monitor emerging industry standards (such as XML, RDF, OWL, and XBRL) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture

    • Qualification

    • B Degree in Information Technology or National Diploma in Information Technology or related in commercial or Technical (NQF 6/7).

    • TOGAF Certification.

    Experience

  • Experience with process redesign methods and tools.

  • 5 years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in information systems design.

  • Three to five years of demonstrated management / supervisory experience in system management.

  • In-depth experience designing and implementing information solutions.

  • Knowledgeable in the design and construction of information architectures that enable well-integrated transactional, collaborative, and analytical systems.

  • Data/information modelling expertise at the enterprise level.

  • Understanding of differences between relational modelling and object modelling.

  • Understanding of taxonomies and ontologies, as well as the challenges of applying structured techniques (data modelling) to less structured sources.

  • Understanding of metamodels.

    • Personal Characteristics
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