NiSource - Chester, VA
posted 3 months ago
The Senior Data Architect plays a crucial role in the Enterprise Data Strategy department, which is responsible for the data strategy of the enterprise data lake house. This position is pivotal in creating high-quality data models and structures that support downstream analytics, reporting, and application requirements. The Senior Data Architect collaborates closely with business, IT, and analytics colleagues to understand data needs and design optimized structures that reduce redundancy, streamline data flow, and enhance enterprise data management. By leveraging best practices, the Senior Data Architect is tasked with creating timely, reliable, and scalable data products. As a recognized subject matter expert, this role involves tackling complex problems with a broad perspective, ensuring that the data architecture aligns with the overall business strategy. In this role, the Senior Data Architect will assemble large, complex data sets that align with business requirements and analyze and translate these needs into long-term solution data models. The architect will design and implement effective database solutions and models for storing and retrieving company data, collaborating with the development team to create conceptual data models and data flows. Additionally, the Senior Data Architect will implement data strategies and develop physical data models, leading the data modeling strategy for complex projects from start to finish. This includes updating and optimizing local and metadata models and identifying database structural necessities by evaluating business operations, applications, and programming.