Data Architect

• Job Title: Data Architect
• Location: Hybrid at Plano, TX
• Duration: 12+ Months Contract
• Position Type: Contract

Main Skills:

• Data Architecture
• Data Modeling
• Metadata
• PL/SQL
• Materialized Views/Designing

As a Data Architect, you will:

• Required Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture, database architecture, or data platform architecture.
• Strong experience with Oracle relational databases and enterprise data models.
• Experience designing performant data access patterns for analytics, reporting, or AI-enabled query systems.
• Experience with metadata onboarding, data catalogs, business glossaries, and semantic modeling.
• Advanced SQL, especially Oracle SQL.
• Data and Metadata Onboarding
• Identify and document the required SPI Oracle database schemas, tables, views, columns, keys, relationships, and constraints needed for GenAI.
• Define the onboarding scope for structured data, including source systems, subject areas, entities, and key data products.
• Extract, validate, and organize technical metadata from Oracle using tools such as Toad, SQL scripts, catalog exports, or database dictionary queries.
• Establish metadata standards for table descriptions, column definitions, data types, keys, data classifications, and business relevance.
• Work with business and data SMEs to validate whether the onboarded data accurately represents the enterprise process management business domain.
• Toad for Oracle or equivalent Oracle metadata extraction tools.
• Data catalog or metadata management platforms.
• Git or enterprise source control.
• CI/CD awareness for database scripts and metadata assets.
• Strong understanding of PL/SQL concepts.
• Working knowledge of Python for metadata extraction, profiling, or automation is preferred.
• Familiarity with YAML / JSON metadata formats is useful.