A data architect is a person responsible for making sure an organization's strategic goals are optimized through the use of enterprise data standards. This frequently involves creating and maintaining a centralized registry of metadata.
Data architecture includes topics such as metadata management, business semantics, data modeling and metadata workflow management.
Data architect's job frequently includes the set up a metadata registry and allows ___domain-specific stakeholders to maintain their own data elements.
A data architect has experience in the following technologies:
- Data Dictionary
- Data warehouse
- Databases such as IBM DB2 UDB, Netezza, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, MySQL
- Enterprise application integration
- Metadata registry
- Relational database
- Semantics
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- XML
- XML Schema
- XSLT (XML transformations)