Data Architect Job Posting

Job Title:	Data Architect
Company:	Staff IT Enterprises
Position Type:	Contract
Pay Rate:	Competitive
Skills:	Warehousing, ErWin, 3NF
Date Posted:	Sep-14-09

Staff IT Enterprises LLC , our (Micro-Soft Staff IT division), a leading IT Services company, is looking for 4 Senior Data Architects for a large Data Warehouse dashboard project in the Atlanta, GA area. This is an initial 3 month contract with a very strong likelihood of extending long term.

Will be a part of the DW and BI Design team and will be responsible for analyzing data, creating solutions by performing & application database design activities, documenting functional requirements and working directly with ETL Architects and developers.

Required Skills:

Good Documentation / Communication Skills.
Good at data warehousing life cycle and concepts.
Experience in using ErWin.
Understanding of 3NF modeling and Dimensional(Star Schema) modeling - A MUST
Experience with Business Objects design

3+ years as a BTEQ developer and 1+ years experience as a Lead developer or ETL architect in the Teradata Environment

Job Description:
* The candidate needs to be a solid and seasoned IT Datawarehouse designer with deep understanding of large scale reporting, including business and technical approaches * Strong business background with exceptional communication skills * Data Warehouse design experience; the resource needs to be proficient in assessing, designing and performance tune a reporting solution in a Teradata environment. * The candidate needs to be a solid and seasoned IT business analyst with deep understanding of data warehousing from a business and technical perspective * Strong experience with SQL and BTEQ * Ability to write clear requirements and bridge the gap between IT and the business * Excellent communication and customer skills * Teradata experience, or experience working with over 5 terabytes of data (10 + million records) * Strong experience with Informatica-based ETL processes Strong Skills in data modeling and knowledge of the ERwin data modeling tool.

Responsibilities:
Responsible for multiple projects or large complex projects with cross functional teams and business processes. Demonstrate expert knowledge in multiple technical and business functional areas as well as performing a larger leadership role in the organization. Apply broad in- depth business and technical knowledge to establish technical direction and priorities along with medium to long range planning. Resolve and work on issues across multiple functional areas. Effectively monitor and take action to ensure coordination and effectiveness of all components and activities and decide on issues requiring escalation. Incumbents understand the system flow for a project throughout an entire functional area (e.g. Billing, Customer Care) not just a subsystem area.

Required Skills Exp
Data Modeling - 4+ years
Data Warehousing - 4+ years
Informatica Developement - 4+ years
Structured Query Language - 4+ years
Teradata Developement - 4+ years
UNIX - 4+ years

Location:	US-GA-Alpharetta
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Hakan Lane
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:	mstick@stofanet.dk