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Job Title: Data Warehouse Architect

Art.com
2100 Powell Street, 10th Floor
Emeryville 94608
Tel: (510) 879-4705     
www.art.com

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Job Description:
The Data Warehouse Architect will spearhead the corporate data warehouse initiative, representing the technology team to the business. The Data Warehouse Architect has the overall responsibility for assessing requirements and defining the strategy, technical architecture, implementation plan, and delivery of enterprise data warehouse projects. 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, currently consisting of Business Objects, SQL Server, Oracle and Oracle EBS R12, as well as the short-term scope for a multi-phased data warehouse effort. This person must have strong consultative skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels of the organization including data warehouse team, business analysts and key business stakeholders.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Generate executive level support for the data warehouse initiative
* Responsible for understanding LOB strategy and translating business strategy into the enterprise data needs required to effectively achieve business objectives
* Coordinate with the Applications Engineering Group to ensure business needs are met by inclusion of business data requirements in planned application projects
* Participate in the definition of measures used to regularly assess, monitor and improve the quality of enterprise data assets
* Coordinate and work in conjunction with the offshore development group
* Provide technology leadership but also be hands-on in development tasks
* 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) including technical requirements, technical and data architectures for the data warehouse
* 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
* Define multi dimensional data models for business metrics and dimensions

REQUIREMENTS:

* Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university required
* BS/MS in Engineering, IT, or Computer Science preferred
* Minimum of 7-10 years related experience with emphasis in Data Warehouse engineering and development life cycles with at least 3 years experience involving architectural responsibility
* 7-8 years experience in data warehouse architecture design, logical and physical data modeling and design, data security, ETL processes modeling.
* Depth of knowledge with industry trends related to Data Warehousing, Data Management, metadata, Master Data Management, unstructured data and data quality practices
* Experience leading offshore and cross-functional teams, including defining requirements, developing designs and project plans, and delivering results
* Proven experience in leading successful enterprise data warehousing efforts
* Strong technical skills with data warehousing technologies such as Business Objects Data Integrator, Business Objects Web Intelligence, Databases such Oracle, SQL Server. Prefer experience with Oracle EBS 11i or r12.
* Strong data modeling skills (normalized and multidimensional)
* Strong business and communication skills
* Broad based information technology experience (e.g., languages, methods, EAI, XML)
* Current knowledge of the data warehouse market; vendors, and standards bodies
 
Job Location(s):
Emeryville,CA,US
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