Data Architect III - Analytics Solutions

Multiple Locations: Toronto, ON, Canada • Kitchener, ON, Canada • Montreal, QC, Canada • Edmonton, AB, Canada • Vancouver, BC, Canada • British Columbia, Canada • Alberta, Canada • Quebec, Canada • Ontario, Canada

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Requisition Number: 168794

Position Title: Advanced Analyst

External Description:

As a Data Architect III you will be responsible for designing robust data architectures which will support the ever-changing needs of the company. You will work closely with other architects, analysts and researchers to identify, clean, enrich and shape data in a cloud-based architecture. Our environment is fast-paced and requires someone who is comfortable working in a deadline-driven environment – sometimes with shifting priorities.

Responsibilities:

Develop a high level knowledge of the underlying data assets and data products and provide subject matter expertise on content, current and potential future uses of data.
Work with stakeholders and the Technical and Data Architects to understand and translate analytical and reporting requirements into curated data solutions and drive them to completion
Participate in architecting a modern Data Warehouse to support self-serve BI, and model development.
Provide leadership, oversight, and development execution of the data architecture design, data models
Establish and enforce data representation, distribution, archiving & retentions, protection and quality standards for our data platform; and promote good data governance within the community
Monitor systems’ data quality and provide stewardship in data governance programs
Review changes to technical and business requirements and architecture, assessing their impacts on data systems, and ensure the impacts are communicated to appropriate parties
Maintain comprehensive documentation of data architecture, business glossary and data dictionary

Required Experience:

Bachelor Degree in CS, MIS, Statistics, Math, Business or equivalent experience is required
5+ years of experience with enterprise data warehousing, data management and business intelligence
Proven experience in business requirements elicitation and definition, and translating business requirements into solution options and high-level design models
Hands on knowledge of foundational data architecture such as data warehouses, dimensional modeling, data life cycle management in RDBMS (Big Data environments as asset)
Excellent data analysis skills and comprehensive experience with different data sources, data types and data structures
Strong attention to detail; ability to think critically and analytically
Excellent SQL skills
Familiarity with Big Data technologies including Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, Spark, NoSQL
User oriented with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience in presenting to business and technical teams including executive management
Strong sense of ownership, passion to build quality products for massive scale in collaborative, agile environment, and an excitement to learn.

Preferred Experience:

Familiarity with video game data domain and its life cycle
7+ years of experience with data warehousing, data management, business intelligence, and large-scale data solutions
Experience and knowledge in the areas of Reference Data, Data Quality, Metadata Management
Experience inventing data solutions – not simply implementing packaged software
2+ years of experience developing Dashboards, Scorecards and BI reporting
Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies such as NoSQL, Hadoop, Hive MapReduce, Spark and large-scale data warehouse architectures
Experience with additional languages for data manipulation and analysis including R, Python
Experience with OLAP, columnar databases, MPP databases
Good knowledge of data privacy practices and laws (internationally)
Understanding of Taxonomies and Ontologies
Experience with Scrum and/or Kanban agile methodologies

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 247

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers.

We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more.

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.