Senior BI Architect

SENIOR BI ARCHITECT
LOCATION: ANTWERP
Duration: 2 months to start in January

My client is looking for a Solution Architect BI/Datawarehouse/ETL (BO, SAS, Teradata, Informatica, ODI, )

Job Description
* Communicates towards customer staff
* Works with deadlines and quality at the same time
* Can prepare training manuals for technical staff.
* Develop information architecture, both conceptual (eg. Reference architecture) as technical. Both on data and ETL architecture. The BI architect determines the optimal approach for obtaining data from diverse source system platforms and moving it to the BI. This involves understanding all of the source system platforms, application architectures and DBMSs.
* Resolve semantic discrepancies in data definitions that arise among multiple sources and projects.
* The person in this role designs and implements the infrastructure used by ETL specialists on specific projects. This work includes constant refinement activities to standardize and implement new functionality based on experiences learned during the course of specific projects. This also involves the establishment and enforcement of a concise series of technical standards for the deliverables of individual projects.
* The BI architect provides input to the long-term technology planning portions of the program plan. This person assists and coaches ETL specialists during the course of their individual projects.
* The BI architect is a focal point for understanding data from the corporate perspective and representing the data so it can be understood uniformly throughout the company.
* He/she supports multiple projects in building new data sets and data structures as required, and for managing the distribution, replication and archiving of data throughout the enterprise and across projects.
* The BI architect must manage the balance of current and future needs in both design and content.
* Gain consensus among users on common business data definitions.

Desired Skills & Experience
* Languages must haves: fluent in ENGLISH, and basic knowledge of 2nd Belgian language (FRENCH OR DUTCH) is an asset.* Has extensive knowledge of Datawarehouse design principles and ETL .
* Has extensive knowledge of the Data Vault design method and related project approach
* He/she has a thorough understanding of - and is capable of teaching - the diverse BI acquisition techniques and the decision rules on how to apply them.
* This person will utilize a range of new design techniques optimized for BI data structures and must be capable of teaching these new techniques to the project level designers.
* Being creative is a must for this role.
* Knowledge of design tools is an asset.
* Excellent communication skills. Be able to present for an audience

Please apply and I will contact you to discuss the opportunity further