Data Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Data Architect

This role is a member of the Issuer Services Technology Architecture team with primary responsibilities of Data Architecture. Supporting application development Working as Data Architect, your passion for technology and thirst for innovation will help shape the future of global digital commerce, now and for years to come. As part of our Issuer Services Technology, you will immerse yourself in solving complex business problems through innovation and proven and repeatable engineering practice. You will partner with application development teams and other Technology, Operational and Product teams across the group and the firm, developing an extensive personal network that will allow you to influence and provide technical and architectural leadership and mentoring. You will work on a number of projects which will require differing approaches for success and will depend heavily on collaboration with our colleagues to deliver business results.

The Data Architect will be considered the Subject Matter Expert on Data, Information Architecture and Data Management - working closely and collaboratively with the project development teams, ensuring that the design is implementable and that delivery is consistent with the agreed design.

Essential Requirements: 

• Experience in application, data, and infrastructure architecture and design disciplines, including api design
• Strong data orientation and experienced in data analysis and data mining (hands on experience)
• Knowledge of core Information Architecture capabilities, including Master and Reference Data Management, Data Quality (DQ), Metadata Management, Data Taxonomy, Data Integration, Data Migration and Data Modelling
• Experience in creating, contributing to and reviewing Architecture and Development artefacts such as Conceptual, Logical and State Data Model's
• Strong working knowledge and experience of Data Modelling and Meta-modelling or use of alternative Data Modelling tools such as Erwin, Power Designer and MagicDraw
• Experience with Talend would be a plus
• Knowledge of and preferably development with industry standard models such as ISO 20022, FIBO.
• Knowledge of different data modelling methodologies such as 3NF, Deformalized (Star Schema), Data Vault, XML Schema etc. with the ability to read and understand data models presented in a variety of formats.
• Ability to collaborate with business teams in order to understand, translate, review and playback requirements into Logical Data Models, Interface Specifications, Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies.
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Ability to understand, communicate and operate at Business, Technical, Application and Technology levels of Data and Information Architecture.
• Adept at working in globally diverse teams across different time zones and forging relationships with key business stakeholders and development teams
• Effective communication and presentation skills both to business and technical audience
• Excellent and proven analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to decompose a large problem into smaller executable pieces

Key Responsibilities: 

• Contribute and assist the Architecture and Design Authority, with ability to forge and develop relationships with key business stakeholders and development teams.
• Definition and documentation of current state and future state Data Architecture
• Collaborate and design conceptual, logical and state data models and supporting the physicalization of the models to support the target state architecture.
• Assist/Define the definition, communication and implementation of data policies, standards and processes
• Develop, own and manage the data modelling best practices, patterns and standards.
• Ensure appropriate enterprise data/information policies, principles and standards are adhered to and implemented throughout project delivery

Beneficial: 

• Banking/Finance back ground
• Application development background
• Experience with API's

Qualifications/Skills 

• Educated to degree level, or with appropriate career experience.
• Demonstrate the ability to drive result in a fast pace of change and challenging environments
• Strong collaboration and relationship management skills to effectively work across a wide range of stakeholders to gain buy-in and drive progress
• Ability to work independently, taking a leadership role on specific efforts
• Ability to multi-task, moving easily between strategy and execution
• Strong verbal and written communication skills - must be able to synthesize data into concise messages for leadership
• Excellent analytical & problem solving skills
• Outstanding attention to detail, follow-up skills and results-orientation