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As aData Architect, you will analyze, assess, document and design scalable and sustainable data architecture and data management solutions, addressing critical business use cases. You will partner with cross-functional teams to provide subject matter expertise on data architecture that includes designing, creating, deploying and managing solutions that align with enterprise data strategy.

Skills

• Significant experience working in complex data environments in an engineering, design and architecture capacity; including enterprise warehouses, marts, ODS'
• Experienced with cloud technologies.
• Proficiency at understanding enterprise data architecture concepts, master data management, data modeling and design techniques.
• Proven success in composing and executing on long term data strategies
• Solid experience in driving Automation, Data Quality, Security and Governance practices.
• Passionate about technology and delivering solutions in integrated data environments.
• A strong influencer who can integrate effectively into the organization, combining facilitation skills with a results orientation to deliver excellence and execution.
• Demonstrated organizational ability and maturity, for working effectively across different organizational units and business groups.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead cross-team collaboration and partnerships across a variety of internal and external constituencies.

Responsibilities

• Partners with business and technology teams to define and implement solutions supporting the Distribution department.
• Drives the database architecture and technology vision for Distribution, aligning with the enterprise data strategy.
• Proactively investigates, proves out and incorporates new technologies and capabilities as required.
• Defines patterns and standards for data platforms, design, engineering and development.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a major in Computer Science, Business Data Processing, Computer Information Systems or related field is required.
• Minimum five - seven (5-7) years' data modeling experience in an agile work-environment delivering transactional and operational, reporting/analytical (EDW/Data Lake/NoSQL) solutions.
• Extensive hands on experience in data warehousing design, ETL/ELT, BI/Analytics Data Repositories development.
• Understanding of enterprise and reporting modeling concepts, including dimensional modeling, snowflakes, slowly changing dimensions, schema on read, irregular dimensions, and surrogate, compound and intelligent keys.
• Experience with Data Modeling Tools (Embarcadero ER/Studio preferred), Knowledge of Data Modeling in Agile Software Development Framework.
• Minimum five - eight (5-8) years Relational database (Sybase, Oracle or MS SQL server) experience (SQL scripts, stored procedures, triggers, etc.).
• Industry: 3 years' experience within the investment and mutual fund management industry, high level knowledge of securities & products, counterparties, positions, and transactions data.
• Ability to describe the role of data architecture in supporting diverse use cases such as business processes, Cloud solution, Data Lake, BI, data migration or master data management (MDM).
• Experience with ETL (Informatica's PowerCenter), data quality, data profiling and ad-hoc query tools.

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