Data Architect
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Data Architect
Onsite 4 days week, Yonge street, Ontario Canada
We are looking for a hands-on Data Architect to support a strategic data controls and governance initiative. This role will be responsible for assessing data flows, designing remediation solutions, defining data controls, supporting architecture decisions, and working with platform teams to implement improvements related to data minimization, encryption, tokenization, access controls, logging controls, and customer identifier management.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data architecture, data governance, data security, integration architecture, and cloud data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Data Architecture & Analysis
- Analyze end-to-end data flows across batch and API integrations.
- Develop current-state and target-state architecture diagrams.
- Perform data lineage, impact analysis, and dependency assessments.
- Identify data exposure risks across enterprise platforms.
- Document integration patterns and data movement across systems.
- Support architecture reviews and solution approvals.
- Data Governance & Controls
- Perform PII and sensitive data assessments.
- Define data classification, retention, and handling requirements.
- Design data minimization and data protection strategies.
- Support enterprise data governance initiatives.
- Define data ownership and stewardship models.
- Data Security & Privacy
- Design data protection controls including:
- Encryption
- Tokenization
- Data Masking
- Hashing
- Secure Logging
- Support RBAC and ABAC design.
- Review access models, service accounts, and privileged access requirements.
- Support security and privacy compliance initiatives.
- Integration & Platform Architecture
- Assess batch, API, messaging, and data lake architectures.
- Design secure data movement and interface patterns.
- Support modernization of customer and loyalty data integrations.
- Work closely with platform teams to implement approved architecture solutions.
- Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with Business, Security, Data Governance, Platform, and Engineering teams.
- Facilitate architecture workshops and design sessions.
- Prepare executive and architecture review documentation.
- Support program planning, risk management, and roadmap development.
Qualifications and Skills
Required Skills:
- Data Architecture & Solution Design
- Data Modeling (Conceptual, Logical, Physical)
- Data Lineage & Impact Analysis
- Integration Architecture
- Enterprise Data Management
- API & Batch Processing Architecture
- Data Governance
- PII Classification & Data Privacy
- Data Governance Frameworks
- Metadata Management
- Data Quality & Data Stewardship
- Data Retention & Archival Strategies
- Data Security
- Encryption (Data at Rest & In Transit)
- Tokenization & Data Masking
- RBAC & ABAC
- Access Governance
- Secure Logging & Monitoring
- Key Management Concepts
- Platforms & Technologies
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Responsibilities
Assess enterprise data flows and risks, develop current- and target-state architecture, and define governance, privacy, and security controls. Collaborate with business, security, governance, platform, and engineering teams to approve and implement architecture improvements and support program planning.
Requirements
The role requires strong experience in data architecture, data governance, data security, integration architecture, and cloud data platforms. Relevant capabilities include data modeling and lineage, PII and privacy assessments, data protection controls, access governance, and batch, API, messaging, and data lake architectures.
Skills
- Data Architecture
- Solution Design
- Data Modeling
- Data Lineage
- Impact Analysis
- Integration Architecture
- Data Governance
- PII Classification
- Data Privacy
- Metadata Management
- Data Quality
- Data Security
- Encryption
- Tokenization
- Data Masking
- RBAC and ABAC
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Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Security & Safety
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Integration Architecture
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Data Modeling
- Data Lineage
- Impact Analysis
- Enterprise Data Management
- API Processing
- Batch Processing
- PII Classification
- Data Privacy
- Metadata Management
- Data Quality
- Data Stewardship
- Data Retention
- Data Archival
- Encryption
- Tokenization
- Data Masking
- Hashing
- RBAC
- ABAC
- Secure Logging
- Access Governance
- Key Management
- Messaging Architecture
- Data Lakes
- Customer and Loyalty Data