Information Architect

Industry Type Petroleum / Oil & Gas
Functional Area IT - Software
Location of Job Al Kuwait - Kuwait
Job Description
Keys and Responsibilities:- 1. Quickly identifies and understands the business benefits of new technologies; provides input to the logical/physical data modelling in order to ensure that business requirements are translated into a valid database design; 2. Physically designs and implements and supports company''s enterprise databases based on data /usage needs and architecture standards; Meets performance and availability requirements and provides adequate safeguards for security and integrity; Performs Performance tuning and optimization for Transaction based databases; 3. Consults with project team to determine effective analysis technique(s) utilized in addressing business requirements; Provides analytic services specializing in data, process and workflow techniques to support customer needs; 4. Offer realistic design options which has significant impact on how the customers business is supported with automation; 5. Offers alternate actions and risk assessment where appropriate; Provides business analysis tool set expertise(i.e. Case tool, repository/dictionary); 6. Provides logical data verification/mapping support; Creates and revises information architecture documents and diagrams including but not limited to; concept diagrams, wire-frames, site maps, audience profiles and user scenarios, site content inventory, functional requirements/page mock-ups, and navigational prototypes; 7. Collaborates with customers, project managers, developers and business owners on User Interface requirements for software applications, web interfaces, and other interface-based products; 8. Defines, prototypes, and documents highly usable interfaces to meet requirements; 9. Measures effectiveness of applications by performing usability testing, task analysis and other measurement methodologies. Candidates must have the following requirements:- 1. Bachelor''s degree required; MA, or MBA desirable. 2. Discipline/Specialisation: User interface design, Information Design or human factors engineering (or equivalent experience) with user centred design methods including task analysis and user scenarios. 3. 12 years experience with 5 to 7 years of Data Warehouse Management experience in enterprise architecture design with a proven track record of success. 4. 3 to 6 years experience in user cantered design with a focus on information architecture and design is required; 4 to 6 years experience focused as web/software information architect; 5. Applicant must be experienced in designing user interfaces for software and complex web applications within a development team. 6. Strong understanding of data access requirements, including transactional data access, business query and business analytics; Some understanding of metadata management; Strong written and oral communication skills; 7. Knowledge of IAA and IIW a plus; Skills in negotiating and understanding requirements based upon an understanding of in-place and future architectural strategy and trends; 8. Strong knowledge in UNIX, Advanced SQL, Database partitioning, OLTP, OLAP database design and management, indexes and high availability systems; 9. Knowledge in Data warehouse, dimensional modelling, ETL and OLAP will be a plus; 10. Strong knowledge in Data modelling for oil & gas industry will be a plus; 11. Must have through knowledge of ODS, warehousing technologies and trends; 12. Must have experience in developing data integration/movement code using Informatics and MQ-Series, or similar technologies; 13. Expertise in usability including aspects such as consistency, user-cantered navigation, logical structure, page design, response time, user support and learn-ability; 14. Proficiency in one or more presentation-level languages (HTML/DHTML, XML, CSS, etc.), preferably with experience in other Web technologies (such as animation or data visualization). 15. Experience with Microsoft .Net and ASP technologies is a significant plus; excellent leadership, communication, problem solving, facilitation and presentation skills a must.

Desired Candidate's Profile
Experience 10 - 15 years
Education Basic - Bachelor of Arts , PG - Master of Arts ( Master of Arts , Statistics )
Nationality Any Nationality
Gender Any

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