We are seeking a Senior Technology Architect with a strong focus on data lake and cloud-native architectures to lead the design, optimization, and governance of the enterprise analytics platform. The successful candidate will have 7+ years of hands-on experience with major data lake platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse, Fabric, Databricks) and ETL/ELT
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tools (e.g., Informatica, Azure Data Factory). This role is critical for evaluating and implementing the next-generation data lake, ensuring operational excellence, enforcing data governance, and defining the long-term strategy for providing sensitive data to stakeholders. This is a Hybrid role based in Toronto, requiring up to 3 days onsite per week.
Advantages
- Strategic Impact: Define the future data lake and EDW strategy for a major organization, driving core data platform decisions.
- Complex Data Governance: Work directly on implementing solutions for PHI data governance, security, and disclosure.
- Platform Integration: Lead the implementation of critical integrations, including PowerBI with the data lake and moving a Metadata Tool to Production.
- Long-Term Role: Secure an 12-month contract with an option for an additional extension.
Responsibilities
The Senior Technology Architect will be responsible for:
- Architecture & Strategy: Maintaining a scalable, secure, and highly available data lake architecture to support enterprise analytics, including leading the evaluation, design, and implementation strategy for the organization's next data lake/EDW platform.
- Cloud Optimization: Ensuring cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and storage configurations are optimized for performance, cost-efficiency, and compliance.
- Tool Management: Managing the selection, deployment, and lifecycle of data engineering tools and platforms, including ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration tools, data catalogs, and monitoring tools.
- Automation & CI/CD: Driving automation and operational excellence through CI/CD practices for data pipelines.
- Data Integration & Governance: Overseeing the integration of internal and third-party data sources into the data lake. Partnering with data governance and security teams to enforce data privacy, access controls (especially for PHI data), metadata management, and regulatory compliance.
- Roadmap Implementation: Working with internal teams to deliver key roadmap items, including establishing PowerBI integration with the data lake (ADH), implementing the Metadata Tool in Production, and establishing PHI Data Aggregation Guidelines.
- Consultation: Supporting future strategies for analytics tools such as PowerBI, Microstrategy, and SAS.
Qualifications
Must-Have Experience:
- 7+ years hands-on experience with data lake platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure Synapse and Fabric, Databricks, etc.) and ETL/ELT tools (e.g., Informatica, Azure Data Factory), with a strong understanding of data pipeline orchestration and cloud-native architectures.
- 7+ years experience understanding metadata management, lineage tracking, and data classification frameworks.
- Leadership experience in the development and implementation of technical architectures.
- Extensive experience in systems analysis and design in large systems environments.
- Strong written and oral communications skills, able to communicate development strategy clearly to technical and non-technical groups.
- Knowledge and experience designing processes around ITIL methodology.
Desired Skills (Assets):
- Experience preparing conceptual, logical, and/or physical processes and data models.
- Awareness of emerging technologies, trends, and directions in the data space.
- Experience translating business requirements into reporting needs.
- Public Sector Experience.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Technology Architect role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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We are seeking a Senior Technology Architect with a strong focus on data lake and cloud-native architectures to lead the design, optimization, and governance of the enterprise analytics platform. The successful candidate will have 7+ years of hands-on experience with major data lake platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse, Fabric, Databricks) and ETL/ELT tools (e.g., Informatica, Azure Data Factory). This role is critical for evaluating and implementing the next-generation data lake, ensuring operational excellence, enforcing data governance, and defining the long-term strategy for providing sensitive data to stakeholders. This is a Hybrid role based in Toronto, requiring up to 3 days onsite per week.
Advantages
- Strategic Impact: Define the future data lake and EDW strategy for a major organization, driving core data platform decisions.
- Complex Data Governance: Work directly on implementing solutions for PHI data governance, security, and disclosure.
- Platform Integration: Lead the implementation of critical integrations, including PowerBI with the data lake and moving a Metadata Tool to Production.
- Long-Term Role: Secure an 12-month contract with an option for an additional extension.
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Responsibilities
The Senior Technology Architect will be responsible for:
- Architecture & Strategy: Maintaining a scalable, secure, and highly available data lake architecture to support enterprise analytics, including leading the evaluation, design, and implementation strategy for the organization's next data lake/EDW platform.
- Cloud Optimization: Ensuring cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and storage configurations are optimized for performance, cost-efficiency, and compliance.
- Tool Management: Managing the selection, deployment, and lifecycle of data engineering tools and platforms, including ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration tools, data catalogs, and monitoring tools.
- Automation & CI/CD: Driving automation and operational excellence through CI/CD practices for data pipelines.
- Data Integration & Governance: Overseeing the integration of internal and third-party data sources into the data lake. Partnering with data governance and security teams to enforce data privacy, access controls (especially for PHI data), metadata management, and regulatory compliance.
- Roadmap Implementation: Working with internal teams to deliver key roadmap items, including establishing PowerBI integration with the data lake (ADH), implementing the Metadata Tool in Production, and establishing PHI Data Aggregation Guidelines.
- Consultation: Supporting future strategies for analytics tools such as PowerBI, Microstrategy, and SAS.
Qualifications
Must-Have Experience:
- 7+ years hands-on experience with data lake platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure Synapse and Fabric, Databricks, etc.) and ETL/ELT tools (e.g., Informatica, Azure Data Factory), with a strong understanding of data pipeline orchestration and cloud-native architectures.
- 7+ years experience understanding metadata management, lineage tracking, and data classification frameworks.
- Leadership experience in the development and implementation of technical architectures.
- Extensive experience in systems analysis and design in large systems environments.
- Strong written and oral communications skills, able to communicate development strategy clearly to technical and non-technical groups.
- Knowledge and experience designing processes around ITIL methodology.
Desired Skills (Assets):
- Experience preparing conceptual, logical, and/or physical processes and data models.
- Awareness of emerging technologies, trends, and directions in the data space.
- Experience translating business requirements into reporting needs.
- Public Sector Experience.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Technology Architect role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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