Data Warehouse Architect

Employer Description

EWSolutions (www.EWSolutions.com) is a high-end, full service systems integrator that is completely focused on data warehousing, metadata management, enterprise architecture and data management. We pride ourselves on employing only the "best of the best" consultants at each level in our firm. Our consultants have published over 300 articles and have written multiple top selling technology books. EWSolutions is a fast growing and progressive company that has doubled in size for two consecutive years. We are committed to providing our high-achieving consultants with full life-cycle metadata repository, enterprise architecture and data warehousing projects employing leading edge technologies and software tools. In addition, our consultants have the opportunity to work with the best minds in the metadata, enterprise architecture and data warehousing arena on high visibility projects that are focused on attaining results for our clients. EWSolutions' clients have been selected for various IT industry awards and accolades (visit our website for additional details). Our "100% project success" banner is not a slogan but rather a statistic. We don't fail on our projects.

Responsibilities

The Data Warehouse Architect has the overall responsibility for assessing requirements and defining the strategy, technical architecture, implementation plan, and delivery of data warehouse projects for major organizations.
The Data Warehouse Architect must have prior experience leading successful data warehousing implementations as well as a broad background and experience with IT application development. This individual is responsible for establishing the long-term strategy and technical architecture as well as the short-term scope for a multi-phased data warehouse effort. This person must have strong professional consulting skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels of the organization.

• Find/generate executive level support for the data warehouse initiative
• Define key business drivers for the data warehouse initiative
• Deliver a project scope that directly supports the key business drivers
• Define the overall data warehouse architecture (e.g., ETL process, ODS, EDW, Data Marts)
• Define technical requirements, technical and data architectures for the data warehouse
• Recommend/select data warehouse technologies (e.g., ETL, DBMS, Data Quality, BI)
• Direct the discovery process
• Design and direct the ETL process, including data quality and testing
• Design and direct the information access and delivery effort for the data warehouse
• Define and direct the implementation of security requirements for the data warehouse
• Define meta data standards for the data warehouse
• Direct the data warehouse meta data capture and access effort
• Define production release requirements and sustainment architecture

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university required
• BS/MS in Engineering, IT, or Computer Science preferred
• Experience in leading successful enterprise data warehousing efforts
• Strong technical skills with all data warehousing technologies (e.g., ETL, ODS, DBMS, BI)
• Strong data modeling skills (normalized and multidimensional)
• Strong business and communication skills
• Broad based information technology experience (e.g., languages, methods, EAI, XML)
• Strong professional consulting skills
• Current knowledge of the data warehouse market; vendors, and standards bodies EWSolutions is still a relatively small firm with a family atmosphere without big firm politics. If this sounds like the type of company that you want to work for and you are prepared to take on the challenges and rewards of working with an exciting and high-growth entrepreneurial company, please send your resume in MS Word format to info@EWSolutions.com . Resumes in PDF format will not be accepted.