Database Architect

Average Salary
$73,190
$34,710
$108,420
Degree Requirements
Bachelor's Degree
Career Focus

In the past, when businesses and organizations needed to store information, they’d build libraries and archives. Today, we have more information digitally available than ever before, and as the number of internet users and data continues to grow, data architects are in high demand. They create the blueprint for data infrastructure, designing, storing and organizing an organization’s data.

Also known as: Data Administrator, Data Officer, Database Consultant, Information Architect, Information Modeling Engineer Specialist, Information Technology Architect, System Engineer, Technical Operations Vice President
Mathematics
Monitoring
Programming
Social Perceptiveness
Systems Analysis
Systems Evaluation
Design and implement database solutions to store and retrieve company data
Examine and identify database structural necessities according to client needs
Ensure database implementation procedures comply with regulations
Install and organize information systems to guarantee company functionality
Plan and manage data migration
Conduct regular tests and integrate new features to ensure performance
Recommend solutions to improve database systems

Every time a student searches the web, a nurse updates patient records or a farmer checks the weather forecast, they generate data. Data curators use their deep understanding of data applications to help businesses, organizations and IT professionals establish common goals and utilize this data to accomplish them. With more sophisticated ways to leverage the huge amounts of information we create, data curators help us become more efficient, informed and productive.

Also known as: Content Curator, Menu Curator (Data Entry), Data Manager
Instructing
Mathematics
Monitoring
Operation Monitoring
Operations Analysis
Programming
Speaking
Systems Analysis
Systems Evaluation
Troubleshooting
Organize and source data for analysis
Apply transformations and blend data from several sources
Customize data for different analytical tasks
Assign analytical tasks to data engineers/scientists, providing all necessary requirements for completion
Advise and educate IT professionals about how businesses use data, allowing them to better conduct analysis
Maintaining efficient data organization over time for future use
Meet Topher
Data Scientist
United Animal Health
FA-Data-Curator
"With agbioscience there's going to be challenges. There's going to be strategy. You're constantly using technology. There isn't a moment that goes by that I'm not using some type of platform like a mobile device or trying to find a way to get mobile into someone's hands. With different technologies that are coming out every day you have to learn it, you have to research it. It's exciting because you get up every day and you go, okay, what's going to be new today? What's going to be out there today that I didn't know about yesterday? So it's constantly changing. It's very exciting to be in the industry."
Topher
B.S. Computer Information Systems and Communications

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