Data Architect - Cape Town, South Africa - Recruitment Matters Africa

Recruitment Matters Africa

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Responsibilities:

Design, implement and futureproof data solutions to provide and guarantee accurate, consistent, timeous data to meet the business needs.
Provide architecture artefacts in accordance with business and project requirements
Conceptualize onpremise, cloud components, security, networking and monitoring solutions to meet the data needs.
Provide plans to migrate existing complex onpremises data solutions to cloud platforms when applicable
Identify and lead crossfunctional team members, partner with your peers in the organisation and connect business objectives with technical vision.
Lead, manage and grow a team of data specialists viz. analysts, modelers, engineers
Assist to hire and mentor engineers, and build a highperforming team
Work on project management tasks associated with allocating resources and identifying risk items.
Plan to explore and grow new technology in support of future organisational direction.
Participate in the evolution and direction of the company's data strategy.
Champion the adoption of industry best practices to push the development standards
Provide thought leadership, knowledgesharing and advisory services

Key Skills:

Qualifications:

BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Microsoftcertified Azure Data Engineer Associate
Track record in building and running largescale systems professionally for 10+ years
Experience in communicating with and presenting to Senior stakeholders
A minimum of 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, leading teams that design, architect, and implement complex datacentric systems
Minimum of 5 years experience with technology development and delivery, with a particular focus on onpremise, cloud and/or hybrid data platforms.
Experience using services and components such as ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Compute, containers, integration, storage, web, and DevOps
Possess a deep understanding of database systems (E.g. MySQL, MS SQL, nonrelational DBs) including modeling, design, scalability, performance and highavailability, clustering
Proficient in UML, BPM, and the use of Architecture Design tools e.g. Sparx or similar experience using tools such as Lucid