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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 forData Architect 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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