Data Architect Lead

Data Architecture Lead/Agile Pod Leader

Global Investments Management knowledge/experience required

Project Overview

The Global Investments Business is embarking on an exciting multiyear strategic initiative to move their investment s business to a Global platform and implement a set of vended and internally built solutions to enable our business to grow rapidly. The initiative touches on client portfolio management operations compliance and data solutions and has a global focus.

The initiative will involve building our Global Investments data platform in our AWS based cloud sourcing certain data domains from vendors via Snowflake shares and other data domains from other vendors and internal platforms and integrating into a Databricks centered Lakehouse for use by internal and external applications BI data science and AI. We want this data platform to be designed to be an intuitive product that internal developers and BI users can easily understand and leverage themselves. Data governance and pipelining will also be of key importance.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Architect Lead for our Global Investments strategic program to join our project team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data architecture investment management domain technology data and with supporting large technology implementation projects. The position would work closely with both development teams and global investments data team.

Role Detail

Focus on software development life cycle you will collaborate with our Head of Technology Strategy Head of Data Solution Architects Data Analysts Data Team and Portfolio Delivery function Leads to understand customer and technical needs to design and implement the Global Investment data platform including Persistence Integration and Services layers of the business solutions in compliance with architecture principles and standards.

You will coordinate with business and technology team leads for the creation and maintenance of the LOB standardized interface layer as well as data model and catalog.

You will form part of the Pod Leadership team tasked with bringing your architectural vision to fruition utilizing agile methodologies and assist the senior pod lead with the day to day oversight of the development team.

You will elaborate your architecture designs and collaborate with our infrastructure and development teams to enable implementation of them with light touch oversight.

We in Product Delivery Engineering are on a mission: to transform the way our business and IT teams work together to unlock the benefits of rapid delivery of quality secure software to market by empowered teams. We will do this by rolling out our Agile at Scale Delivery model. You will oversee teams and will be responsible for their delivery of working software through to production.

You will be intimately familiar with the Agile processes and practices required for successful and sustainable delivery.

Solid understanding of Software Development Architecture Test Engineering and Security best practice in an Agile environment

Pods support the full lifecycle of a product and we operate on the philosophy that the work comes to the team. You will need to consider tech debt obsolescence security and modernization

What you need to have:

Deep previous experience in the investment management industry and common applicable data domains (clients portfolios funds holdings transactions trades securities/investments ESG analytics performance IBOR/ABOR/TBOR benchmarks/indices).

Deep understanding of business and the ability to translate them to conceptual Logical and Physical data model designs when required

Deep understanding of integration design patterns and reporting solutions

You are a selfstarter; you can take initiative without waiting for direction.

You are used to working and communicating with both business and technical stakeholders at varying levels of seniority

An inquisitive mind set with a track record of seeking out and implementing new technologies and architectural patterns

Ability to work effectively with distributed teams across the globe. The business we are supporting is global and our development teams are also in differing regions.

Significant organizational Agile transformation experience and be able to demonstrate proven strategies.

Previous experience of Agile Program management (e.g. RTE role)

Experience of a wide range of Technology roles is desirable ideally with some form of development engineering or Agile Program management background

Technical skills or qualifications required:

Significant experience with the majority of following technologies architectures & methodologies:

Nifi Python kafka Databricks Informatica or any other integration technologies

Data modeling tools such as Hackolade ErWin

Big Data / Data Lakehouse / traditional RDBMS/data warehouse/mart

Industry standard Metadata management product Collibra Informatica EDC/AXON/CDGC

Data Management Principles and Data Governance Lifecycle and standards and tooling

Deep understanding of secure data service architecture. Expert in data services design Secure by Design concepts Microservices Structure SQL and other query patterns

Cloud Infrastructure architecture Containerization / Kubernetes

Secure DevOps; Application Performance Monitoring (APM) techniques; SDLC Agile / Hybrid / Waterfall

Experience with building solutions with Databricks.

Experience with Snowflake (for data sharing) and Athena a plus.

Experience working in AWS.

Experience in building denormalzied data warehouses (star schemas fact dimensional modeling) for developers/BI user users.