Senior Data Architect

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Senior Data Architect

@ CGI

Your future duties and responsibilities:

  • Develop core enterprise data architecture principles.  
  • Govern projects for adherence to standards and to approved architectures.  
  • Develop domain specific, master data or advanced analytics, architecture pattern, as required. 
  • Partner with industry analysts, software vendors and internal stakeholders to develop data architecture strategies. 
  • Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable data governance in line with the client governance best practices and policies.
  • Collaborate with the data stewards and security officers to enhance and maintain highest data governance and production.
  • Partner with data engineering and data owner(s) to define, implement, and enforce data governance, security best practices and policies.
  • Ensure data quality and governance throughout its lifecycle, minimizing data sprawl and reducing system complexity
  • Provide clean, dependable data feeds to the BI team to support dashboards, reports, and analytics in tools like Power BI.
  • Act as an internal advocate for data principles, educating engineers on effective data governance and security.
  • Work across the stack to modify event triggers, configure transformations, and implement data capture mechanisms within product code and data tools.
  • Streamline Processes – Assist in improving business processes supporting data delivery to reduce time, operationalization of data management, and modernize architecture.
  • Support modern data governance and AI trend and technology


Qualifications:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering/architecture, with proven expertise in building and maintaining data pipelines, developing a roadmap (migration paths identify technical debt/risks) and preparing meta data for migration.
  • Strong data governance and data catalog integration, data lake, to identify and document meta data in a standard and reusable format.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, Oracle and experience with modern data warehousing platforms
  • Hands-on experience with event-tracking systems such as Segment and behavioral analytics tools
  • Familiarity with Azure data fabric and related data orchestration tools.
  • Experience working within azure data governance tool such as Purview is a plus.
  • Knowledge of BI and visualization tools such as Power PI.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools is a plus.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to educate and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Proactive mindset with a focus on reducing complexity, standardization, and delivering high-quality data as a service
  • Advanced knowledge of networking concepts, object-oriented technology, data warehousing, and relational database engines.  

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience
  • Master's Degree preferred.


Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:

  • Agile development methodologies
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Experience working with GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES)
  • Microservices architecture
  • Serverless computing


Skills:

  • Azure API Management
  • Azure App Services
  • Azure Data Factory


How to Apply:

Apply online at https://www.cgi.com/en/careers 

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Location: Lafayette, LA
Date Posted: September 29, 2025
Application Deadline: October 31, 2025
Job Type: Full-time