What is data analytics without clean-ish data and data architecture? Nothing.

Easier said than done. As we seek to define a 3-year data strategy for our organization, the challenge of identifying our desired data architecture looms large.

We are seeking a team of highly-motivated students to gain an understanding of our current architecture (consisting entirely of non-centralized databases and legacy systems), our business and industry, our data maturity level, and help us define the alternatives to achieving an ETL integration architecture that works for us.

Final deliverables include:

• A detailed position paper with the top 3 alternatives that have been retained by the team, the decision matrix, and the recommended selection
• A presentation detailing an overview of what the implementation of the recommended alternative would entail for our business, risks and challenges, resources required.

The students will meet weekly with our Director of BI & BA and manager of SoftwareDev; our Business Analyst will be available to provide support and technological briefings as required for the success and advancement of the project.