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Job Summary

CN Customer Solutions Group is seeking a Senior Data Architect to drive strategic innovation and modernization initiatives and architecture practices. As a data and technology architect, you will lead the architecture of cloud native APIs, Data-Hubs, Data-Lake Information models and cloud infrastructures to drive the creation industry leading products. As an expert product builder, you will define practical architectures that ensure the performance, scalability, and maintainability of complex distributed systems. You will also contribute to the definition of strategic data and technology directions and define continuous improvement objectives in collaboration with Innovation leadership team.

Main Responsibilities

Responsibility 1

· Assistin developing andof modernization initiativesthat is in line with business processes. The strategy includes data model designs, database development standards.

· Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors for the smooth functioning of the enterprise data system.

· Managingproductend-to-end data architecture, designing the technical architecture.

· Integrating technical functionality, ensuring data accessibility, accuracy, and security.

· Builds roadmap(s) for implementing and manage best practices in alignment withproductarchitecturestrategy.

· Keeps abreast of latest technological/industry trends.

· Leadmodern data architecturebest practicesincludingDomain Driven Design and Analyticaldata models.

· Design andoptimizeapplication and integration strategies for the cost-effective delivery of scalable and reliabledistributedsystems.

Responsibility 2

-Evaluate current and emergingData, Analytics and AItechnologies.Be a leader in thearchitecture and engineeringgroup, fostering a culture of design thinking,brainstorming,efficiency, and balancing vision with practicality.

-Define architecture and engineeringstandards, patterns & best practices.

-Influence leadership with effective communication of proposals, directions and strategic decision making.

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Requirements

Experience

• 12+ years of experience withdataengineering andarchitecture.

• 5+years of experience in IT environments especially in the areas of data management, system development life cycle and data integrations.

• 5+ years of experience as aDataArchitect with application, technology architecturemodelling, planning anddocumentationfordevelopment, including SQL development and database administration.

• 3+ years of experience as Senior Architect using cloudnative data architecture andtechnologies.

Education/Certification/Designation

Competencies

• Leadership

• Communication

• Time management

• BusinessAcumen

TechnicalSkills/Knowledge

Must haves

· Expert knowledge ofengineering,architecting, anddeliveringenterprise grade products.

· Expert knowledge ofdesigning integration solutions, with good understanding of Enterprise Data Integration and Architectural Data Patterns.

· Expert knowledge ofInformationand DataArchitecturepatterns

· Goodknowledgeof Data Governance and Data Lineageandtechnologies.

· Goof knowledge ofSOA architecture,patternsand implementation

· Good knowledge of analytical data modelsStar Schema,SnowflakeSchema,Factanddimensional Tables, Physical and Logical Data Modeling

· Good knowledge ofDatabase Architectures-SQL, NoSQL, Document, Graph, Search, In-memoryDB

· Good knowledge ofMicro Service Architecture, DomainDrivenDesign, Event Sourcing, CQRS

· Good knowledge ofAPI ArchitectureandSchema Modelingis a plus

· Ability to simplify complex concepts.

· Good communicationand presentation skills

· Ability to plan and lead the work of data designers and developers

Nice to haves

· Experience in program & project scoping and planning with Agile process and tools

· Experience in delivering agile and iterative architectures

· Experience architecting/operating solutions build on Azure, GCP, others

· Experience implementing Big Data, Pipelinesand Data Warehouse Architectures

o LikeHadoop, ADLS, Spark,DeltaLake

o Tools like Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Oozie,Solr, Avro

· Experience with Event Driven Architecture - Pub-Sub, Kafka, MQ, MQTT

· Experience with Integration of Transactions, Data, Streaming, Batch, Files, APIs

· CloudData ServicesArchitectureknowledge

· DevOpsknowledge

· Experience working with DevOps, CI/CD/CT – Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab

· Experience with Test Automation, TDD, BDD, ATDD

· Experience with AI/ML technologies

· Experience with Legacy Systems Modernization (Mainframe, SAP, Java) is a plus

· Lead the architecture and delivery ofdataproducts withvery highstrategic value and business visibility

· Leadstrategicdataarchitecture practicesand modernization approachesof the innovation group

· Createstrategic technology directions

· Define continuous improvement objectives

Employees Supervised/Organizational Structure

Bea functionaland thoughleader toindirect reports

This position is posted as a grade 7. For internal candidates, note that the grade level of the position may adjust based on the employee's experience.

About CN

CN is a world-class transportation leader and trade-enabler. Essential to the economy, to the customers, and to the communities it serves, CN safely transports more than 300 million tons of natural resources, manufactured products, and finished goods throughout North America every year. As the only railroad connecting Canada’s Eastern and Western coasts with the Southern tip of the U.S. through a 19,500 mile rail network, CN and its affiliates have been contributing to community prosperity and sustainable trade since 1919. CN is committed to programs supporting social responsibility and environmental stewardship. At CN, we work as ONE TEAM, focused on safety, sustainability and our customers, providing operational and supply chain excellence to deliver results.

At CN, we are dedicated to building North America’ssafest, (https://www.cn.ca/en/safety/) mostinclusive (https://www.cn.ca/en/careers/diversity-equity-inclusion/) andsustainable (https://www.cn.ca/en/delivering-responsibly/environment/) railroad, which includes reflecting the communities in which we operate. Research shows that candidates from underrepresented groups often don’t apply unless they feel they fit the job posting at 100%. Even if you don’t see yourself in every job requirement listed in a posting, we still encourage you to apply. If you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations), please reach out to our team at cnrecruitment@cn.ca.

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