The role of a Data Enterprise Architect encompasses many activities including (but not limited to):

• Provide strategic direction for our data landscape.
• Develop a data management strategy.
• Define the data shared across the landscape and the relationships between those data elements.
• Define how the data will be stored, consumed, integrated, and managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing data.
• Work closely with the Application Enterprise Architect, and the Business Enterprise Architect in the achieving data consolidation.
• Drive the data standards within the organisation from all perspectives including new offsite data elements.
• Ensure complete data solution design to achieve business driven value.
• Design process for reuse of data elements components, their use within projects.
• Design process for the disposal, archiving and retention of data components and elements and their associated metadata.
•  Design and evaluate solutions on how to improve, and sustain data quality, database performance, data accuracy, data security for both digital and non- digital data sets.
• Ensure data design complies with the relevant government data security acts and polices (e.g., Minimum Interoperability Security Standard and Protection of Personal Information, etc.).
• Design solution together with the other domain enterprise architects to gain maximum benefit for technology and processes.
• Design, develop, define, and maintain the data architecture standards. Data interoperability standards, operational data marts.
• Design and evaluate solutions that use a combination of business intelligence, analytics, traditional data warehouse and big data services. Internal and external data sources.
• Design processes and producers for data governance.
• Manage and maintain the data artefacts in the enterprise architecture repository.
• Recommend appropriate course of action to developers and management on data implementation issues.
• Define technical standards and methods for performance, and quality.
• Ensure that the appropriate strategies and policies are in place and provide the necessary expertise to the Policy and Strategy Unit where strategies and policies are deemed missing.
• Ensure that the strategies and policies are implemented and adhered to.
• Contribute, promote, and ensure adherence to ICT governance frameworks, processes and best practice.
• Analyse and ensure alignment to National ICT governance frameworks and standards.
• Serve as a group member on the internal enterprise architecture governance boards.