Senior Data Modeler_ONLY LOCAL TO MA NEEDED_No Relocation Candidates_Only on W2

Onsite in the financial district - downtown Boston 3 days per week. 6 month contract with extensions Must be a hard-core Data Modeler - that is ALL they will be doing Reason for opening: Growth. Data Engineering team has been doing Data Modeling as subset of their role. Looking for an individual 100% dedicated to Data Modeling. Does not need to be out of Financial / Investment services Client is seeking a Senior Data Modeler (Contract) to join our growing team. As a Data Modeler, you'll get the opportunity collaborate in a dynamic environment. You will work closely with product teams, data engineering teams, architecture, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Using data modeling and collaboration tools, you’ll help design, implement data model for Analytical, operational and transactional solutions. Responsibilities • Partner with Architects, Engineers, Analysts and product owners, to design and manage the structure of an organization's data systems to optimize data storage, accessibility, and usability • Develop and collaborate on establishing data modeling standards, for analytical, operational and transactions databases • Create logical, conceptual and physical data models for analytical, operational and transactional solutions • Enforce and maintain compliance with data modeling standards across all solutions • Provide data modeling guidance and coaching to developers and engineers; may act as mentor to technical team members • Collaborate with data governance on cataloging, data related policies, data lineage related activities • Be a subject matter expert for development teams as part of implementation • Document and maintain data modeling artifacts, acts as custodian of the data models, and publish the models for wider use across the organization Skills You Bring • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer/data science technical or related experience • 5+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience • Strong SQL knowledge and work experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake • Ability to define data modelling standards and guidelines as well help teams adopt complex large- scale and global data driven implementations • Demonstrated, hands-on data modeling, ER diagram and enterprise software design experience for OLTP (relational) and analytical systems. including a good understanding of semantic data modeling concepts , multi-Fact model and time series data handling. • Experience with modeling tools (PowerDesigner or Erwin or ER Studio or others) required • Ability to quickly grasp technological, business concepts, key domain and entities • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; experience communicating with engineers, architects and product management to explain technical and functional concepts • Ability to assess the accuracy completeness and consistency of data models as well as maintaining relevant documentation • Experience and desire to work within a fast-paced environment with short release cycles and an agile development methodology