Data Architecture Consultant

Position Description

CGI is more than just an IT solutions provider; we are a global organization offering a world of opportunities. Our benefits include a share purchase program, profit sharing, wellness credits, training and development programs, and flexible work schedules and locations. Join an outstanding culture that enables you the freedom to innovate, influence decisions, achieve your full potential, and chart your own career!

Are you motivated by the opportunity to delight your clients by providing them with innovative solutions to sophisticated technical problems? These are exciting times for CGI, and we are looking for hardworking individuals to innovate with us. If you thrive on innovation where you can influence the direction of technical strategy, come and join our team!

This is a fantastic opportunity to become a Member of our CGI-Edmonton team providing leading information technology services to our clients. We seek a Data Architect with demonstrated ability in large enterprise environments.

If you are looking to advance your career while gaining experience in an exciting and diverse development environment, this is the opportunity you've been looking for!

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Work with business users, IT, and other architects to complete data architecture, data engineering and data management deliverables
• Architect, design, and implement complex data solutions to support transactional and analytical business solutions
• Work with different stakeholders to facilitate consensus and gathering and documenting of data requirements
• Complete technical data quality tasks - data quality assessments, data cleansing, data enhancements, and data consolidation
• Provide thought leadership in public and private cloud data platform architecture
• Complete current-state and future-state data flow and data integration diagrams and data mapping pertaining to data migrations and integrations
• Develop master data management design and implementation strategies and architectures
• Conduct data governance workshops and complete data governance deliverables
  
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• 5+ years of experience in data architecture
• Data architecture, modeling, migration, master data management and governance expertise
• Cloud data platform architecture and implementation experience
• Experienced in leveraging DecSecOps approaches for data solutions
• Experience in implementing data management/data cataloging solutions, data quality tools, and REST APIs
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build good working relationships with clients and team members
• Strong written and oral communication skills – comfortable with delivering presentations
• Time management, task planning and prioritization skills - able to multitask effectively
• Developing of business cases, strategies, and roadmaps
• Implementing standard IT security practices such as encryption, certificates, and key management
  
  

Nice to have:

• Experience with ML (Machine Learning) Ops
• Experience in Azure Data Factory, Databricks, SQL, Spark
• BI/Analytics technical development
• Experience in software development in one or more languages such as Python, Java, C++ or similar, software design
• Experience working with infrastructure automation & continuous integration/deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Puppet, Chef, Azure DevOps, Ansible, etc.)
• Understanding and experience with containers and serverless-compute technologies
  
  

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.