Data Architect

Do you want to work for one of BC’s Top Employers for 2024 and join an innovative, technology-driven and growth-focused organization?

LandSure Systems Ltd. (LandSure) is looking to hire a Data Architect to join our Technology division!

Who we are:

LandSure is a subsidiary of the Land Title and Survey Authority of BC (LTSA), a publicly accountable, statutory corporation that manages BC's land title and survey systems. Our team of nearly 100 employees supports the LTSA through information system consulting services, project management, customer support, and communications.

We offer meaningful work in the public interest. In support of the Province’s 30-point housing plan, LandSure has helped the LTSA build and launch the Condo and Strata Assignment Integrity Register as well as the Land Owner Transparency Registry, a first-of-its-kind registry.

We offer an innovative, performance-driven culture. We have helped the LTSA become a leader in automated property registration and through technology, we are reducing turnaround time for customers and improving the consistency, accuracy and efficiency of the LTSA’s services. We also build and manage innovative products such as ParcelMap BC and AUTOPROP, which support access to information for the land and real estate sectors.

We offer balance. LandSure provides employees with the ability to work for a stable, independent, values-driven technology company. The environment is entrepreneurial, innovative, and fast-paced yet supportive. Our culture is of mutual respect, constantly improving our professional and personal skills, and celebrating our accomplishments.

We believe in a hybrid of remote and in-office work and know you'll love our downtown Vancouver office as much as we do! Our employees can work either entirely in the office, or a hybrid of both remote and in-office. Therefore, applicants must currently live in British Columbia or have plans to relocate to British Columbia.

Visit landsure.ca/careers to learn more about why it's great to work at LandSure, including 3 weeks vacation to start, a generous bonus program, and a $650 health spending account.

What you'll do:

Reporting to the Manager, Enterprise Architecture, the Data Architect is responsible for designing data solutions that enable strategic business goals, and ensuring that all the data solutions are aligned with the business needs. This role ensures all policies, principles, models, standards, technologies, and processes are in place to ensure data is treated as a strategic asset for the organization.

The Data Architect shares responsibility for the overall enterprise architecture and works collaboratively with product managers, solution and system architects to establish the data architecture and frameworks that facilitate access to and flexible sharing and exchange of enterprise data.

This position, in close collaboration with business and technology leaders across the organization, supports effective change by understanding business challenges and translating them into requirements/solutions and is a champion of data architecture and management practices which enable business information and data goals to be realized.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing enterprise data architecture framework, and developing robust data models and data architecture solution(s) that align with strategic business requirements and accurately represent business entities, relationship and data flow.
• Converting business requirement to logical data models and information data flows, and working with stakeholders to define data requirements and translate them into the data architecture framework, information and data flows, standards, and principles, including modeling, data dictionaries, metadata, security, reference data and client categories. Creating and maintaining robust documentation as required.
• Lead the design of migration to a modern data architecture. Deliverables may include: data migration strategy (towards on-premise to cloud-based data platforms, from batch to real time processing, towards best-of-breed platforms, from point-to-point to decoupled access, from enterprise warehouses to domain-based architectures, from rigid data models to flexible data schemas)
• Be a key member of project(s) teams responsible for delivering key data architecture solution(s).
• Explains / presents complex ideas; anticipates potential objections and prepares case accordingly.
• Collaborating with system and solution architects to align enterprise system and data architecture to realize business goals (largely internal but occasionally wider stakeholders across the property ecosystem)
• Assessing and optimizing existing data models to improve performance, scalability, data integrity, security, accessibility, and interoperability.
• Collaborating with Database Administrators (DBA) and data analysts to optimize data storage and retrieval and integration for future data science and analytical usage.
• Providing guidance and support to development teams in implementing and adhering to data modeling and data architecture principles.
• Collaborating with Information Asset and Business Process owners as part of team defining data management and governance processes and executing on data management improvement plans.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define data modeling, data architecture standards, principles, and guidelines to ensure consistency and reusability across organization.
• Overseas the evaluation of emerging data modeling techniques, tools, and technologies and recommending their adoption as appropriate.
• Staying up-to-date with emerging trends and advancements in data architecture, data modeling, NoSQL databases, and GraphQL.

We encourage you to apply if you have:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 to 10 years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, or a similar role, preferably in a cloud-based environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Extensive experience in data modeling, including conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling for enterprise systems.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to translate complex business requirements into effective data models and data architecture solution.
• Able to architect for serverless data platforms, Can develop AWS based containerized data solution
• Experience with Data pipeline and API-based interfaces (preferably API management platform)
• Knowledge of migrating from traditional to Event based data architectures
• Aware of Data virtualization techniques on Cloud. (prefer AWS).
• Strong proficiency in data modeling tools and techniques such as PowerDesigner, ER/Studio or Erwin.
• Experience and proficiency in the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) for land administration and management systems is a valuable asset. Experience with NoSQL or GraphQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j and understanding of their data modeling approaches.
• Experience with stream processing, messaging platforms like Kafka, and platform for buffer transactions is an advantage
• Familiarity with GraphQL and its usage for efficient data retrieval and manipulation.

We are dedicated to transparency in our hiring process. $116,200- $145,200 annually, reflects a reasonable expectation for pay for the position depending on qualifications and experience. This compensation is specific to the role within our organization and takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to job-related skills, experience and relevant training or education, business and organizational needs.

We are committed to fostering a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace where all employees can share their diverse views, skills and backgrounds. Valuing employee diversity strengthens workplace trust and enhances our ability to innovate in service of our customers and partners. Our hiring practices reflect this and we are committed to ensuring that our workforce reflects where we live and work. Consider joining our team and being part of an innovative, inclusive and rewarding workplace.

Please note applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada.