Data architecture create blueprints for data management systems. After assessing a company’s potential data sources (internal and external), architects design a plan to integrate, centralize, protect and maintain them. This allows company to access critical information in the right place, at the right time. It Involves

• Collaborate with IT teams and management to devise a data strategy that addresses industry requirements
• Build an inventory of data needed to implement the architecture
• Research new opportunities for data acquisition
• Identify and evaluate current data management technologies
• Create a fluid, end-to-end vision for how data will flow through an organization
• Develop data models for database structures
• Design, document, construct and deploy database architectures and applications (e.g. large relational databases)
• Integrate technical functionality (e.g. scalability, security, performance, data recovery, reliability, etc.)
• Implement measures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility
• Constantly monitor, refine and report on the performance of data management systems
• Meld new systems with existing warehouse structures
• Produce and enforce database development standards
• Maintain a corporate repository of all data architecture artifacts and procedures