Deadline: 3 December 2015
World Food Programme (WFP) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Data Architect in Rome, Italy. The duration for the post is of 1 year.
The WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Data Architect will perform the following functions-
- Own the data architecture and governance of core data platforms, to facilitate Master Data Management, meta-data management, data quality management, data integration, data distribution and reporting.
- Determine the data architecture considering existing data sources, needs for data integration and requirements for data distribution for WFP data domains.
- Coordinate with Data Governance Sub-Committee to establish data quality baselines and resolve data issues.
- Influence change and enforce data best practices, standards, and governance.
- Identify data requirements and related KPIs and metrics for availability, integrity and confidentiality.
- Analyze data architecture and integration solutions for improvement opportunities and challenges.
- Conduct data model reviews with project team members.
- Participate in information meta-data strategy definition.
- Partner with business units, vendors and internal IT to maintain the data
- Collaborate with relevant business partners and functional heads to ensure alignment with tactical and strategic goals.
- Maintain expertise and proficiency in the various application areas.
- Provide expertise and leadership on making technical decisions, mentoring junior team members, and focusing on delivering an architecture that provides business value.
- Other as required.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Advanced university degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional two years of related work.
- A minimum of eight years or more of postgraduate progressively responsible professional experience inclusive of at least three years experience in a data architect role on a variety of large scale projects and five years in large scale data integration or data warehouse implementations.
- Experience in Enterprise Architecture, data modeling, reporting and Master Data Management.
- Experience managing an enterprise-wide environment with numerous users and dependent systems.
- Experience with meta-data management including business glossaries and
- Experience in a Big Data solution, Data Quality solution, Meta Data management would be preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to work with other architects, IT and functional heads.
- Excellent communication skills to explain technical designs to non-technical colleagues and knowledge transfer to developers.
- Knowledge of different databases and technologies beyond RDBMS – Columnar, JSON/XML, NoSQL, Hadoop, In-Memory.
- Broad knowledge of vendor capabilities in data management solutions – MDM, Data Federation, Big Data, Data Quality, Business Intelligence etc.
- Knowledge of data design practices (Star, 3NF, Anchor models).
- Maturity to participate in multiple complex programs at the same time in an agile
- Fluency in oral and written English with an intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages).
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their application through online process.
For more information, please visit WFP.
