Job Title: Data Designer

Location: Markham, ON

Model: Hybrid (3 Days Onsite (Mon/ Tues/ Wed))

Job Type: Full time

What you'll do

- Work with the ETL data engineering team & business intelligence team to understand requirements for the database design and model the data as per the needs of business.
- Work with the ML engineering team and understand the needs for ML models and appropriately build the data models for their feature stores.
- Be in charge of developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models and implementing RDBMS, operational data stores (ODS), data marts, JSON/XML schemas and data lakes schemas on target platforms (SQL/NoSQL).
- Manage the extension of existing data architecture and optimize data query performance through best practices. The applicant must be capable of working both alone and cooperatively.
- Collaborate with the development team to design and build the database model.
- Work in collaboration with data engineering teams in documenting the source to target mappings.
- Experience working with relational, dimensional and data vault data modeling techniques.
- Understand the company's data migration needs.
- Work with the development team to implement the migration rules related to data.
- Work with data scientists to understand feature engineering needs and design the required logical & physical data models in the underlying ecosystem
- Help determine data security needs and work with security or infra teams to implement security solutions.

What you'll bring

- A bachelor's degree in management information systems, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related Information Technology area




- Minimum 10 years of experience successfully leading Data modeling & design with expertise in building large-scale enterprise data models.
- Solid grasp/experience with data technologies & tools (Snowflake, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Informatica, DBT cloud, Airflow, AWS Glue etc.,)
- Proficient in industry-standard data modelling methodologies
- Excellent teamwork and communication abilities
- Excellent consultative, facilitative, and consensus-building abilities
- Proven expertise in developing relational databases in a corporate context.
- Demonstrated expertise in developing models for Business Intelligence solutions
- Excellent analytical, data profiling, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent oral and written communication abilities
- Advanced SQL knowledge
- Thorough understanding of modelling methodology and procedures
- Thorough understanding of facilitation and dispute resolution methods
- Knowledge of Business Intelligence products
- Outstanding knowledge and experience in ETL with any of the ETL tool product suite.
- Experience establishing documentation standards frameworks for data quality, data governance, stewardship and metadata management.
- Ability to foundationally understand complex business process driving technical systems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Insurance knowledge an asset.
- Knowledge of ER modeling, big data, enterprise data, and physical data models
- Familiarity with data modeling software such as SAP PowerDesigner, Microsoft Visio, or ERWIN Data Modeler
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced setting.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team

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