Job title: Expert Data Architect
Company: Canadian National Railway
Job description: At CN, we work together to move our company-and North America-forward. Be part of our Information & Technology (I&T) team, a critical piece of the engine that keeps us in motion. From enterprise architecture to operational technology, our teams use the agile methodology to automate and digitize our railroad ensuring our operations run optimally and safely and our employees can focus on value-added tasks. You will be able to develop your skills and career in our close-knit, safety-focused culture working together as ONE TEAM. The careers we offer are meaningful because the work we do matters. Join us!
Role description:
As part of CN Data Services (CNDS), the Expert, Data Architect will be responsible for ensuring – via models, standards, technologies, and processes – that data is managed as a strategic business asset in the same manner as our tangible rail equipment. It identifies, organizes, structures, and defines the business entities that are relevant to the enterprise in an effective and sustainable way. The Expert Data Architect is responsible for designing, building, managing, and optimizing domain-agnostic batch and stream data pipelines, moving them effectively from the source/system of record, shaping the enterprise Source Data Product, and delivering it for consumption. This includes defining solution score and plan architecture, collaborating with Enterprise Architecture and other solution architects, and providing the direction in the delivery of the solution to designers & integrators. More precisely, the Expert builds the solution, drives alignment of the proposed solution with the Enterprise & Domain strategies, master plans & roadmaps, and manages risk mitigation, and as required drives issue escalation & resolution related to the architecture. The experts sign off on architecture where he/she does have the delegation authority and governs the implementation of the architecture during the design phase.
Main Responsibilities:
Data Engineering
· Ensure optimal data delivery architecture and processes are consistent throughout ongoing projects.
· Optimize CN’s data architecture to support the next generation of products and data initiatives.
· Build, manage, and optimize data pipelines, moving them effectively into production for key data and analytics consumers such as business or data analysts and data scientists.
· Build data and domain event models, implement business rules, and engineer scalable data pipelines.
· Ensure compliance with data governance and security requirements while creating, improving, and operationalizing integrated and reusable data pipelines.
· Enable faster data access, integrate data reuse, and improve time-to-solution for data and analytics initiatives.
· Integrate analytics and data science results with business processes.
· Promote effective data management practices.
Modernization
· Work with peers to improve architecture processes and deliverables with the trending technology.
· Participate in yearly product health assessment.
· Maintain solution architecture roadmap based on Enterprise Architecture & Business strategic direction.
Technical Leadership and Governance oversight
· Accountable to lead communication and to drive escalation & resolution with Stakeholders.
· Ensuring Standards are being published and evangelized.
· Ensuring the Enterprise Governance principles are being applied.
Requirements
Education & Experience
· Minimum 10 years of overall work experience (including in OT, IT, Development engagements, and Data Integration).
· Minimum 2 years demonstrating technical leadership qualities and/or overseeing deliverables
· Minimum 2 years in a similar role.
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent degree or relevant work experience.
Skills/Knowledge
· Strong architecture knowledge within numerous fields: business, application, information, and technology architecture facets.
· Hands-on experience in at least one of the Data Integration development technologies (Mulesoft, Kafka, Qlik Replicate, Azure Data Factory).
· Strong Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) or IBM DataStage experience will also be considered.
· Good understanding of application design patterns (Dependency Injection, Microservices, and others) and modern platforms (API/Microservices, Mobile, MBaaS, Mulesoft, Container).
· Knowledge and working experience in Google Cloud Platform – Big Query, Cloud SQL, Dataproc, Cloud Storage.
· Comparable working experience in Azure Ecosystem will also be considered.
· Strong experience with Agile/Scrum/Safe delivery methodology.
· Strong ability to bring a complex concept to actionable architecture deliverables.
· Strong capacity to learn new concepts and technology quickly with the capacity to coach, mentor, and develop others by teaching them.
· Strong ability to taking hard decisions by understanding and explaining trade-offs between business enablement and economic impacts.
· The role requires people skills to influence and orient business and technical audiences toward a common goal that is satisfying all stakeholders.
· Very good ability to build collaborative cross-functional relationships, pulling together and maintaining a cohesive and high-functioning team.
· Strong ability to lead the team on a mandate and to lead decisions.
· Ability to deliver mandate with great autonomy – self-driven.
· Excellent written and oral communication skills.
About CN
CN is a world-class transportation leader and trade-enabler. Essential to the economy, to the customers, and to the communities it serves, CN safely transports more than 300 million tons of natural resources, manufactured products, and finished goods throughout North America every year. As the only railroad connecting Canada’s Eastern and Western coasts with the Southern tip of the U.S. through a 19,500 mile rail network, CN and its affiliates have been contributing to community prosperity and sustainable trade since 1919. CN is committed to programs supporting social responsibility and environmental stewardship. At CN, we work as ONE TEAM, focused on safety, sustainability and our customers, providing operational and supply chain excellence to deliver results.
For internal candidates, note that the grade level of the position will depend on the employee’s experience.
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Expected salary:
Location: Montreal, QC
Job date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:12:27 GMT
