What are Data
Architect Jobs?
Need information management data
architect jobs and want some practical suggestions about
responsibilities, qualifications and salaries?
A technical architect, acting as project manager has overall responsibility
for
architecture and
design, development, testing and project implementation.
They are involved in the following tasks:
Project
planning
The architect is frequently assigned as technical lead or project
manager
and is responsible for all aspects of project planning including
defining:
- Project scope;
- Resource plan;
- Required training;
- Project tasks and deliverables;
- Communications plan;
- Risk management plan;
- Project configuration management plan;
- Change management plan;
- Quality assurance plan;
- Requirements management plan;
- Document management plan; and
- Project acceptance plan.
Ongoing
responsibilities include:
- Status reporting;
- Risk management;
- Change management;
- Quality assurance management;
- Requirements management;
- Release management; and
- Providing direction and technical guidance to
project team members.
Requirements
analysis
A
technical lead is responsible for ensuring that requirements are
sufficiently clear to commence architecture and design and
that
acceptance requirements have been clearly defined.
Architecture
and design
The architect has overall responsibility for all architecture
and design. This includes responsibility for data warehouse design and
providing technical direction to data modelers, data
analysts, data movement designers, ETL developers and database
administrators.
This role is
responsible for the quality assurance of all architecture and design
deliverables. This involves reviewing all deliverables and certifying
that they are complete.
What
qualifications are required for technical architect jobs?
An architect usually requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science
or related area and at least 12-15 years of progressively more
responsible assignments as a relational database designer, data
modeler, and technical designer in a data-warehousing environment.
What are
salaries expectations?
Experienced architects, with 12-15 years of related experience, should
expect to earn $90,000-140,000.
What are
contract employee salary expectations?
Contract employees can expect to earn anywhere from $90 to $125 per
hour. However, this is the amount that is paid to a staffing
company. The amount the contract employee receives will depend upon the
fee demanded by the resource-staffing firm.
Can this
work be done part time?
Requirements analysis involves interaction with business owners and
requires someone pretty much full time on-site.
Project planning and technical architecture can be performed remote or
with telecommuting.
Providing on-going technical leadership can be performed part time and
remote.
Summary…
Information
management projects are data centric and require highly skilled IT
specialists to fill data architect jobs.
A data architect plays a pivotal role in project planning
and technical design can help ensure rapid delivery.

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