Senior Data Modeler

Role: Senior Senior Data Modeler
Location: Remote
Job type: Contract
Rate: Negotiable based on experience – please share me updated resume.

Role Description

• Lead end-to-end design of canonical (system-agnostic) data models for core Oracle Retail entities.
• Partner with Catalyst architects and business stakeholders to capture entity attributes, hierarchies, and business rules, and translate them into normalized, versioned schemas.
• Define the crosswalk/ID-mapping strategy between source (RMS) and canonical keys, establish schema versioning and change-management standards for the program.
• Define the schema contract lifecycle; define, document, and publish canonical schemas to a schema registry, ensuring backward compatibility across all consuming applications.
• Drive schema review and formal sign-off from Catalyst leadership and produce data dictionary and governance documentation as lasting program artifacts.
• Assist integration engineering team to ensure canonical models are implementable within the ingestion/transformation pipeline (RMS to raw Kafka topics to canonical topics), advising on schema-registry enforcement and versioning at publish time.