Boardwalk provides Canadians with a quality, comfortable, home living experience. We offer rental apartments and townhouses that come in a wide breadth of shapes, sizes and sets of amenities. We operate over 34,000 units across Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec.

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Job Overview

Boardwalk is seeking a seasoned Data Architect who will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, efficient, and reliable data architecture solutions that align with the organization's strategic objectives. The role will involve collaborating closely with IT engineers, business analysts, and product managers to ensure data systems support business processes, analytics, and reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop comprehensive data architectures, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Lead data integration efforts, ensuring robust, real-time, and batch data transfer processes between internal and external systems.
• Redesign and refactor data models to meet evolving needs of the growing enterprise architecture.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize database performance, maintain data integrity, and manage database security.
• Ensure adherence to best practices for data governance, data quality, metadata management, and data lineage.
• Implement strategies for data migration, consolidation, and archival that ensure minimal downtime and data loss.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members on data modeling techniques, database optimization, and enterprise architecture best practices.
• Stay current with industry trends, continuously evaluating emerging technologies to recommend improvements in data infrastructure and practices.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to align data strategy with business needs, facilitating data-driven decision-making.
• Design and implement AI-ready data infrastructure to support machine learning, predictive analytics, and large-scale data processing use cases.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data integration pipelines to ensure timely and successful data operations
• Maintain documentation for integration processes, data models, failure scenarios, and troubleshooting steps

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, database design, and data modeling.
• Expert knowledge of SQL and experience with NoSQL databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
• Proven experience with data integration tools, ETL/ELT processes, and event-driven data solutions.
• Hands on experience with both on-prem and cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in designing and implementing high-volume, scalable data processing systems.
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data privacy standards, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Strong experience leveraging APIs for extracting data from software vendor application platforms.
• Experience working with vector databases to support semantic search and AI workloads.
• Knowledge of data visualization tools like Power BI
• Experience working in DevOps methodologies and tools, Agile practices with exposure to Scrum managed teams

Non-Technical Requirements

• Strong communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with various departments such as product management, infrastructure, and development team members.
• Experience working with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure software solutions meet business needs.
• Can handle multiple projects efficiently and effectively.
• Innovative mindset, constantly exploring new technologies and methodologies to improve product development and delivery.
• Focus on delivering scalable solutions that meet both current and future business demands.
• Proactive mindset with strong problem-solving and investigative skills

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Boardwalk recognizes our Associates as our most valuable asset. We are proud to offer:

• A safe and respectful work culture that attracts, supports, develops, and recognizes high-performing and innovative team members

• A competitive salary that’s benchmarked to industry salary data

• Paid vacation time plus 6 grace days

• Hybrid working arrangement

• Health & Dental, Critical Illness, & Life Insurance Benefits

• Group RRSP with generous employer matching

• Paid Training & Development opportunities

• Fitness & Wellness Reimbursement

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Interested applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume. If applying for a location you do not currently reside in, please specify if you are planning to relocate and the approximate timeframe that you would be available to start work if an offer is presented.

We would like to thank you in advance for your application, however, only those candidates who are being considered will be contacted.

Offers of employment will be contingent on satisfactory Security Background Checks, Reference Checks, and Pre-employment Physical Testing where applicable.