LifeWorks Looking for Data & Analytics Business Solution Architect – Remote at Toronto Full Time

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At LifeWorks, we offer more than career opportunities, we provide career opportunities to make meaningful contributions to people’s lives.  The extraordinary expertise of a more than 7,000-strong workforce is harnessed to support the employees and families of the organizations we serve. Our innovative programs have a lasting impact on the health, financial security and productivity of 24,000 workplaces.

Data & Analytics Business Solution Architect
Data & Technology
Open to Remote
Full Time

The Data & Analytics Business Solution Architect role requires an individual with a minimum of 8-10 years of experience who possesses a wide range of solution architecture, data architecture and integration experience from a data perspective. The Solution Architect is a key technical leadership position that will help set the technical direction, enhancing solutions, providing architectural leadership in solution design, application design, data warehouse, ETL and analytic deliverables. The candidate must be a problem solver who has acute attention to detail, but able to maintain and drive towards the big picture solution. The candidate must have exceptional communication skills, and be good at mitigating risk and addressing concerns pro-actively. The architect will liaise with internal staff to interpret business demands to design and deliver solutions with a flexible data foundation that will support a dynamic analytics environment. The candidate must have a technical background in solution architecture, reporting and analytics, ETL tools and methodology, and various modeling techniques (Application, Data Warehouse, Data Marts, etc.).

Responsibilities:

• Lead data architecture discussion and design, overseeing design of the information architecture for full solutions, applications, data lakes, data warehouses, data marts and staging areas
• Provide technical leadership in all phases of a project from discovery and planning, through implementation and delivery
• Collaborates with project managers and business leaders for all projects involving enterprise data
• Take leadership in addressing data-related problems relating to system integration, compatibility and multiple-platform integration
• Identify and develop opportunities for data reuse, migration or retirement
• Work through all stages of a data solution life cycle: analyze/profile data, create conceptual, logical and physical data model designs, provide guidance on ETL and analytics solutions
• Oversee standardization of data definition, development of data models, and data quality practices
• Participate in data strategy and road map exercises
• Participate in troubleshooting and performance optimization with the BI and Data Engineering teams

Where permitted by law, LifeWorks employees must be fully immunized to access a LifeWorks office or customer premises.

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Fulfilling work that matters

LifeWorks is in the business of helping organizations help their people and in the process, we strive to elevate ours. We’re always looking for talented professionals and strategic leaders looking to make a difference in the lives of the people we serve. We appreciate the interest of every applicant; however, we contact only those selected for an interview.

At LifeWorks, we are committed to putting our people first.  Our priority is to optimize the health and productivity of our people.  In light of COVID-19, our company continues to monitor the global situation and following local guidance in each of our communities to ensure the health and wellbeing of our employees.  Safety is our highest priority, and while the goal is to ultimately return to the office, we are currently working remotely and are connecting with candidates through virtual interviews, recruitment events, and information sessions.  We are excited to connect with you virtually, and look forward to receiving your application.