Enterprise Data Architect

09th July, 2024

ENTERPRISE DATA ARCHITECT

Role Description

We are seeking a versatile Enterprise Data Architect with a customer-obsessed, delivery mindset who will be responsible for helping achieve optimal outcomes from technology and design decisions.

The role is responsible for working with a variety of business and IT clients to provide assessments, designs and advice as necessary in a lean, value-driven organization.

This includes working with third party vendors to extract necessary information and advocate for changes where necessary, understanding trade-offs of solution designs and being able to identify risks in designs or service level offerings.

The Enterprise Data Architect will have experience with fully cloud based data architectures with a strong preference for experience with Azure solutions such as Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Fabric.

The successful candidate will support the Director, Enterprise Architecture to mature QuadReal’s data-based AI capabilities, and will help unlock value through data-driven explainability.

The successful candidate will roll up his / her sleeves to engage with stakeholders, understand needs and opportunities, design and review solutions, create frameworks and templates, and review peer deliverables.

About Parkbridge :

Parkbridge is Canada’s leading developer and manager of more than 60 residential communities and 35 recreational RV resort communities.

Headquartered in Collingwood, Ontario, with properties in 70 municipalities across Canada, the Parkbridge team enriches the lives of its residents and guests by providing welcoming communities with quality amenities.

It also offers an attainable path to homeownership through land lease opportunities. Parkbridge is wholly owned by QuadReal Property Group, a global real estate company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with assets under management of over $70 billion.

About QuadReal

Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, QuadReal Property Group is a global real estate investment, operating and development company.

QuadReal manages the real estate and mortgage programs of British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest asset managers with a $153.4 billion portfolio.

QuadReal manages a $37.6 billion portfolio spanning 23 Global Cities across 17 countries. The company seeks to deliver strong investment returns while creating sustainable environments that bring value to the people and communities it serves.

Now and for generations to come.

The role reports to the Director, Enterprise Architecture and is suited to a motivated self-starter with a can do attitude who takes a high degree of personal ownership, embraces ambiguity, demonstrates problem-solving with limited oversight, and is comfortable working in a fluid environment.

It is a role well suited to a confident, excellent communicator.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a variety of data-related architecture services with high quality to stakeholders, including future-state architecture designs, product assessments, technical summaries and roadmaps.
• Perform technical analysis of vendor offerings related to data strategy and convey assessment to stakeholders in business terms with risks, impacts and mitigating strategies.
• Cultivate positive working relationships with various stakeholder groups across the business and IT functions.
• Ensure that expectations including timelines, scope and other aspects are communicated effectively for deliverables to stakeholders.
• Ensure architecture standards and guidelines are consistently followed by projects.
• Ensure relevant architecture designs and artefacts are created, reviewed and approved by projects.
• Ensure appropriate hand-off of solutions to operations, and relevant documentation is updated as appropriate.
• Ensure architecture-related templates, guidelines and deliverables are kept up-to-date.
• Pursue professional development opportunities to maintain knowledge of prevalent and emerging technologies.
• Assist with modernizing and maintaining EA communication channels (e.g. SharePoint site) and collaboration workspaces.
• Contribute to the innovation process (idea generation, capture, triage, prioritization and delivery) and assist stakeholders with innovation initiatives.
• Perform configuration, coding and testing as required to support innovation prototypes and proof-of-concepts.
• Ensure timely, successful execution of experiments and prototypes.
• Work collaboratively with external partnerships that may support or accelerate QuadReal’s innovation efforts.
• Design, develop, and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support business requirements.
• Design and implement data warehouse solutions to enable reporting, analytics, and decision-making processes.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive data dictionary documenting data structures, standards, and governance policies.

Education and Qualifications :

• Data Architecture experience in a modern, secure, and highly integrated cloud-based solutions environment.
• In-depth knowledge of data modeling principles and methodologies to ensure that data models are efficient, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the organization's goals.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure data services (eg. Synapse, Fabric, Data Factory) and base Azure services would be beneficial.
• Functional proficiency with Powershell, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Apache Spark, SQL or similar for execution of proof-of-concepts.
• Experience with AI / Machine learning products (Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI Service, Mistral, etc).
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, storytelling and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience delivering with competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively balance multiple stakeholder expectations, contribute to a team of experienced technical specialists in a dynamic, time-sensitive, and fluid environment.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver to a plan, including reporting on delivery and performance metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, high-trust relationships with key stakeholders including business leaders, colleagues in IT, and partners.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in a similar data architecture role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent education / experience.
• Strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment.
• Experience with cloud-based SaaS and PaaS technologies and systems used for real estate investment, development and management would be beneficial.
• Azure data related certifications are an asset.

Application Information :

Candidates from diverse groups are encouraged to apply. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, barrier free and accessible environment.

If you have been contacted for an interview and require an accommodation to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please advise, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Please note that applicants must be able to successfully pass a pre-employment criminal background check.