Data Architect - CIPHER - Open Rank

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

The GTRI CIPHER Lab's Secure Information Systems (SIS) Division is currently seeking a Data Architect. The division concentrates on the design and development of secure real-world, multi-compartment, multi-level information sharing applications. Hardware and software design methodologies are combined to deliver information exchange solutions that pass the rigorous testing required to operate on the nation's most secure networks. SIS solutions are nationally recognized within the government as state-of-the-art, affordable, secure, and scalable.

Job Purpose

Data Architect is responsible for visualizing, designing and preparing data in enterprise data management frameworks that can be used by used by data scientists, data engineers, or data analysts. The framework describes the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge data. Responsible for assessing the systems data sources (internal and external) and designing a plan to integrate, centralize, protect and maintain data management systems. Ensure sponsors and stakeholders are able to to access critical information in the right place, at the right time in a secure fashion. Must translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles. Responsible for designing data standards, data dictionaries that meet business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations and databases.
• Define data flows, i.e., which parts of the organization generate data, which require data to function, how data flows are managed, and how data changes in transition.
• Examine and identify structural data requirements by evaluating client operations, applications, and programming.
• Recommend solutions to improve new and existing data architectures.
• Contribute to the development of domain, state, or national data standards and models.
• Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions.
• Actively collaborate with sponsors and external vendors and teams.
• Provide tasking to other team members or stakeholder community, based off of derived tasks

Additional Responsibilities

• Analyze Enterprise System requirements to determine best way of storing information system data.
• Develop technical design documents, architecture documents, infrastructure document, network documents, security documents and develop policy and procedures.
• Create and maintain documentation as code.
• Research, organize, and interpret technical information to create and maintain various types of documentation, including model development documentation, user manuals, installation guides, release notes, and code documentation.
• Collaborate with developers, subject matter experts, and business colleagues to gather information and understand technical concepts.
• Write and edit clear, concise content that meets the target audience's needs, adhering to style guidelines and documentation standards.
• Interview subject matter experts and t