Role: Data Architect
Location: Toronto, ON (4 days/week hybrid)
Duration: 6 months
The Role
We are looking for a hands‑on Data Architect to support a strategic data controls and governance initiative. This role will be responsible for assessing data flows, designing remediation solutions, defining data controls, supporting architecture decisions, and working with platform teams to implement improvements related to data minimization, encryption, tokenization, access controls, logging controls, and customer identifier management.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data architecture, data governance, data security, integration architecture, and cloud data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Data Architecture & Analysis

Analyze end-to-end data flows across batch and API integrations.

Develop current-state and target-state architecture diagrams.

Perform data lineage, impact analysis, and dependency assessments.

Identify data exposure risks across enterprise platforms.

Document integration patterns and data movement across systems.

Support architecture reviews and solution approvals.

Data Governance & Controls

Perform PII and sensitive data assessments.

Define data classification, retention, and handling requirements.

Design data minimization and data protection strategies.

Support enterprise data governance initiatives.

Define data ownership and stewardship models.

Data Security & Privacy

Design data protection controls including:

Encryption

Tokenization

Data Masking

Hashing

Secure Logging

Support RBAC and ABAC design.

Review access models,



service accounts, and privileged access requirements.

Support security and privacy compliance initiatives.

Integration & Platform Architecture

Assess batch, API, messaging, and data lake architectures.

Design secure data movement and interface patterns.

Support modernization of customer and loyalty data integrations.

Work closely with platform teams to implement approved architecture solutions.

Stakeholder Management

Collaborate with Business, Security, Data Governance, Platform, and Engineering teams.

Facilitate architecture workshops and design sessions.

Prepare executive and architecture review documentation.

Support program planning, risk management, and roadmap development.

Qualifications and Skills
Required Skills:

Data Architecture & Solution Design

Data Modeling (Conceptual, Logical, Physical)

Data Lineage & Impact Analysis

Integration Architecture

Enterprise Data Management

API & Batch Processing Architecture

Data Governance

PII Classification & Data Privacy

Data Governance Frameworks

Metadata Management

Data Quality & Data Stewardship

Data Retention & Archival Strategies

Data Security

Encryption (Data at Rest & In Transit)

Tokenization & Data Masking





RBAC & ABAC

Access Governance

Secure Logging & Monitoring

Key Management Concepts

Platforms & Technologies

Experience with some of the following:

Microsoft Azure

Azure Data Factory (ADF)

Azure Data Lake (ADLS)

Azure SQL

Databricks

Hadoop / Data Lake platforms

IBM DataStage

Kafka / Event Streaming platforms

REST APIs

Middleware / ESB platforms

Salesforce

SQL

Preferred Experience:

Retail, Loyalty, Financial Services, Banking, or Customer Data domains.

Experience with customer identity and master data management.

Experience in data remediation, data governance, or security transformation initiatives.

Experience working with cross-functional architecture and engineering teams.

Success Criteria:

Analyze complex enterprise data flows and integrations.

Identify data governance and security gaps.

Design scalable and secure data architectures.

Define remediation solutions for data exposure risks.Develop target-state data governance and protection frameworks.

Support implementation of enterprise data controls and modernization initiatives.

About TekNinjas
TekNinjas is a global IT staffing partner placing skilled professionals with leading enterprises and system integrators across the US, Canada, UK, India, and the EU. We focus on the right fit - not just the fast fill - and stay engaged with our consultants well beyond the start date.

We're the right partners in your success.

TekNinjas is an Equal Prospect Employer.

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📌 Data Architect (Ontario)
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