MDM ARCHITECT
Period: 02/01/2010 to 03/26/2010
Work Location: Milwaukee, WI 53202
Hours per Day 8
Hours per Week 40
Description
· Responsible for the overall design of the enterprise information
architecture, across multiple data types (structured, semistructured and
unstructured), balancing the need for access against security and
performance requirements.
· This individual focuses primarily on enterprise information
requirements:
design, access, usage and stewardship.
· The position also requires an understanding of emerging regulatory
issues surrounding information assets (such as consumer privacy laws, data
retention policies, outsourced data and specific industry guidelines.
· Also included are the development or use of process models,
creation or use of information or target data models, interface designs, and
development of internal and external checks and controls to ensure proper
governance, security and quality of information assets.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES:
•Translate strategic requirements into a usable enterprise information
architecture, which may include an enterprise data model, associated
metamodel, common business vocabulary, ontologies and taxonomies, which will
then be used to guide enterprise solution development and achieve
consistency of information assets across the application portfolio.
•Develop a metadata management and repository strategy to manage all
enterprise information architecture project artifacts.
•When necessary, oversee mapping of enterprise information architecture
models to package application models, to determine impact or assess
suitability of vendor solutions to enterprise information architecture
requirements.
•Facilitate the mapping and auditability of information assets as they flow
from upstream legacy, package, or custom development and interfaces to
downstream analytical applications, thus ensuring optimal transparency,
quality, consistency and controlled redundancy across the enterprise.
•Facilitate the definition of integrative and canonical views of data or
information across multiple content types (structured, semistructured, XML
or unstructured) to support convergence of information asset migration
planning or impact analysis.
•Participate in the definition of technical standards and guidelines that
pertain to data and information use, security, access and governance
(including defining accountabilities in support of data quality mandates).
•Ensure existing data/information assets are identified, stewarded and
leveraged across the enterprise.
•Apply Master Data Management (MDM) best practices and processes for
implementation and integration.
•Ensure the enterprise information architecture maps to the enterprise
architecture.
•Ensure a focus on information/data quality by developing and publishing
enterprise data standards such as a common business vocabulary, naming
conventions, data standards, transformation rules and related enterprise
consistency specifications.
•Construct, refine and maintain information models, as needed, to meet
business requirements.
•Ensure timely and appropriate information models exist to aid projects.
•Develop a model management strategy in support of enterprise reuse and
data-sharing objectives.
•Validate audit objectives and assist with creation of audit plans to ensure
continued data integrity and transparency.
•Establish guidelines for reporting procedures on the reuse of enterprise
information architecture artifacts.
•Analyze information to evaluate the effectiveness of controls, determine
the accuracy of reports, and monitor the efficiency and security of
operations.
•Review audit reports to ensure findings and recommendations are acted on.
•Coordinate new development activities and ensure they are consistent and
well integrated with the established enterprise information architecture,
using metadata management and/or a repository to promote reuse and standards
adoption.
•Facilitate consistent business analysis, information acquisition analysis
and design, data access analysis and design, archiving and recovery
strategies, security, and change management at the enterprise level.
•Assist in post-implementation continuous-improvement efforts to enhance
performance and provide increased functionality.
•Participate in key project design reviews as part of the methodology
process to ensure application designs adhere to enterprise information
architecture guidelines.
•Review corporate data sources for new business information and better
sources of data feeds.
•Interface with the business community and provide ongoing status reports.
•Monitor regulatory guidelines (such as consumer privacy issues) to
determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
•Monitor compliance and related guidance (such as data retention and audit
requirements) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
•Monitor emerging industry standards (such as XML, RDF, OWL and XBRL) to
determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
REQUIREMENTS:
•Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or a related
study (such as library science), or equivalent related project experience.
•Seven to 10 years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in
information systems design.
•In-depth experience designing and implementing information solutions.
•Knowledgeable in the design and construction of information architectures
that enable well-integrated transactional, collaborative and analytical
systems.
•Data/information modeling expertise at the enterprise level.
•Understanding of common information architecture frameworks.
•Understanding of differences between relational modeling and object
modeling.
•Understanding of taxonomies and ontologies, as well as the challenges of
applying structured techniques (data modeling) to less structured sources.
•Understanding of metamodels.
•Knowledge of problem analysis, structured analysis, and design and
programming techniques.
•Knowledge of or experience with one or more multiuser, multitasking
operating systems.
•Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to
business needs.
•ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and
confidence.
•Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original
concepts/theories for a variety of stakeholders.
•Ability to analyze project, program and portfolio needs, as well as
determine resources needed to meet objectives and solve problems that
involve remote and elusive symptoms, often spanning multiple environments in
a business area.
•Knowledge of project planning and management, including scope, time and
resource management.
•Experience creating information policy to support effective design of
information systems and use of information across the enterprise.
Familiarity with Master Data Management (MDM) 7 years required
•Experience with various information modeling techniques (such as data flow
diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams or create/read/update/delete
matrices).
•Familiarity with business intelligence and data warehousing development
techniques.
•High-level understanding of relational database management systems and
other data structures.
SKILLS AND CREDENTIALS:
· Works well with others.
· Is a respected leader.
· Is charismatic.
· Remains neutral toward any specific technology choice or vendor;
is more interested in results than personal preferences.
· Displays intellectual integrity.
· Is motivated by long-term results.
· ETL
Regards,
*Pushpa *
Palette IT Solutions,Inc.
Phone: 757-271-6446
Email : [email protected]
Yahoo IM : [email protected]
