A Data Architect is a job title associated with a person within an organization responsible for making sure the 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 must frequently have experience in the following technologies:
- Metadata registry
- Relational database
- XML
- XML Schema
- XSLT (XML tranformations)
- Enterprise application integration
- Data warehouse
- Semantics
- Structured query language
