Specialist I TIS Data Architect - Calgary - Enbridge

Description

Job Title: Specialist I TIS Data Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Specialist I TIS Data Architect to provide technical leadership in modern data architecture for our existing and future business-wide portfolio of analytics services, solutions, and supporting technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design authority to approve proposed data architecture and design to confirm alignment with DnA reference architecture and industry best practices.
• Lead the development of large data architecture initiatives to address complex business requirements, including design and deployment, ensuring alignment to broader organization objectives.
• Technical Lead of projects and resources involved in the design and deployment of the data architecture, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools, and responsibilities are in place to deliver excellence and risks are identified, managed, and mitigated.
• Capture and translate the business requirements for future data & analytics architecture changes and identify the techniques and technologies that should be applied at the application level.
• Visualize and Design Enbridge's Enterprise Data Marketplace framework, including the associated processes to specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge data.
• Provide innovative and practical designs that account for the end-to-end solution for a data architecture that is in line with the business objectives.
• Resolve escalated design and implementation issues with moderate to high complexity.
• Validate that analytics solutions align with architecture design to meet business requirements and service-level expectations.
• Ensure data architecture components conform to technical functionality (e.g., security, performance, scalability, data recovery, reliability, etc.).
• Responsible for developing data analytics models (e.g., data marts) and provide expert advice to ensure the development of processes will transform/clean/load data into those models as expected.
• Ensure operations training, operations knowledge-transfer, and operations-related documentation is kept updated.
• Communicate effectively and frequently with assigned business customers as their requests are being fulfilled; be responsive and available to business concerns, issues, feedback, and questions.
• Provide detailed architecture designs for implementation by service delivery teams.
• Understand and implement analytics best practices for modern data architecture design, including big data solutions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and at least seven (7) years progressively experience in a lead data architecture role within a large and complex organization.
• Right mix of technical and analytical, possessing 5 or more years of IT platform implementation experience, including off-prem and Cloud environments.
• Experience using and designing key data structures, algorithms, and techniques relate to systems that support high volume, velocity, or variety datasets, including apps that utilize machine learning and artificial intelligence.
• Knowledge of relational, NoSQL, or NewSQL database systems, and data modeling, structured, and unstructured.
• Knowledge and Experience in implementing cloud (IaaS and SaaS) for large organizations.
• Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
• Technical experience in business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics, including architecting data for modern cloud-based analytical solutions as well as working with data ingestion, data engineering, data provisioning, data visualization, data science teams.
• Deep understanding and experience of modern data warehousing, ETL/ELT, and big data analytics technologies such as MS Azure data factory, Databricks, Talend/Informatica, etc.
• Experience in using data visualization tools such as PowerBI/Cognos BI expertise.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills with all levels of management and the ability to empower teams to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic and complex problems.
• Strong analytical and interpretive skills to recognize and comprehend complex issues, policies, regulatory requirements, and industry information affecting Enbridge's environment.
• Ability to strategically assess and mitigate the impact on Enbridge's vision and Strategy when directing the implementation of new or changing policies and processes.
• Excellent customer service, leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• TOGAF certification an asset.
• Knowledge of Agile development best practices, and experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Confluence.
• Expertise in cloud architecture and security fundamentals, including containers, software-defined networks, high availability design, multi-cloud, and serverless compute.

Flex-Work:

Enbridge provides competitive workplace programs that differentiate us and offer flexibility to our team members. Enbridge's FlexWork (Hybrid Work Model) offers eligible employees the opportunity to work variable daily schedules with a flexible start or end time, to opt for a compressed workweek schedule, or the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays. Role requirements determine your eligibility for each option.

Physical Requirements:

Included but not limited to: Grasping, kneeling, light–moderate lifting (objects up to 20 pounds), reaching above shoulder, repetitive motion, typing, sitting, standing, visual requirement (able to see screens, detect color coding, read fine print), hearing requirement, and the ability to sit at a computer for long periods of time.

Mental Requirements:

Included but not limited to: Ability to understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information, understand complex problems and collaborate/explore alternative solutions, organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology, organize and prioritize work schedule on a short-term basis, make decisions which have moderate impact on the immediate work unit and monitor impact outside this area, understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines, complete routine forms, compose letters, outlines, memoranda, and basic reports, and communicate with individuals via telephone.

Diversity and Inclusion:

Diversity and inclusion are important to us. Enbridge is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to age, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, veteran status, Indigenous/Native American status, or disability. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats, communication supports, or other accessibility assistance by contacting .