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Data Architect - Senior (12 month contract)

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Location: Edmonton, AB/ Remote

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Description

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Project Name

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OPGT Public Trustee Information System Replacement

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Scope

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GoA's Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT) provides services for personal/financial matters to vulnerable Albertans. Financial services use comprehensive case management and financial systems for trust administration. This project replaces their legacy system with Microsoft Dynamics' Customer Relationship Management and Financial components.

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System development is underway by an external vendor with go-live in late 2026. Agile sprint development is in place with a waterfall timeline for full release of the solution. The delivery team is supported by a GoA team (Manager, Product Owner, Change Manager/Trainer, Data Migration Team, Testers), vendor development team, and Technology and Innovation's (T&I;) technical/privacy/security teams, and business stakeholders/SMEs.

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The Data Architect is critical in defining, executing and managing data architecture domain to ensure project, security, technical and strategic objectives are met. The role provides leadership and expertise across architecture design, governance, security, and modernization—ensuring alignment with GoA standards and business needs.

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Working closely with stakeholders, the role leads design/development of overarching data requirements and establishes principles, strategies, architectures, methods, models, standards and plans needed to provision data for the solution. They will establish a secure, high performing, analytics ready data architecture that supports operations, enterprise reporting and advanced analytics.

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Duties

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This role provides architectural and technical expertise, leadership and data management services to ensure data quality, security, effectiveness and value.

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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

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Architecture Leadership

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- Define/document data architecture (data requirements, strategies/plans, architecture, design principles, models, integration diagrams etc.)
- Lead solution architecture and design on cloud and key data platforms. Ensure alignment with business requirements
- Lead design and governance of schemas, tables, relationships, security roles and data access patterns
- Promote data models and practices to reduce redundancy
- Guide platform/infrastructure teams to configure data platform services to meet solution requirements.
- Participate in planning on implementation strategy, technology stack, design patterns and process
- Advise on configuration vs customization to support long term sustainability
- Review/approve vendor delivered data designs, strategies and implementations
- Advise and coach teams throughout project. Provide knowledge transfer

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Enterprise Data Architecture

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- Define end to end data architecture, including all integrated applications and systems; develop conceptual, logical and data models aligned with platform standards, enterprise data policies, including Dataverse data modeling




- Ensure architectural alignment across system modules, integrated applications, Power Platform components, Azure and downstream reporting environments
- Establish data architecture principles and standards consistent with GoA architecture frameworks
- Architect integrations between solution and external systems, including legacy platforms, document repositories, etc
- Ensure data exchanges meet security, privacy and auditability standards
- Work with Microsoft Dynamics to design how data is organized, stored, integrated and managed across Dynamics 365 ecosystem and broader Microsoft cloud workplace (Power Platform, Azure, Fabric)
- Work with Microsoft Dynamics' Finance & Operations for managing financial data

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Data Migration

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- Serve as GoA lead in data mapping from legacy platform to the new application, ensuring accurate lineage, transformations and alignment with new data models
- Collaborate with vendor to validate mapping logic, support build activities, and ensure mappings are technically feasible
- Work with business areas to define/confirm data rules, resolve data gaps, and ensure mappings support functional, operational, and reporting needs
- Lead data migration strategy. Define extraction, transformation, cleansing, and validation approaches aligned with business rules. Ensure data integrity, traceability, and reconciliation throughout migration activities
- Support parallel-run and cutover strategies to minimize business disruption

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Data Lakehouse – Architecture & Design

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- Define data warehouse/lakehouse approach and architecture and related requirements
- Define storage, archival and retrieval approach for legacy data and target dat

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