Lead Data Architect

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As a Lead Architect for Data products at Corporate Oversight and Governance Technology (COGT) with in the Corporate technology LOB youare an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality architecture solutions for various software applications on modern cloud-based technologies. As a core technical contributor you are responsible for conducting critical architecture solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of project goals.

Job responsibilities

• Represent the data architecture team at technical governance bodies providing feedback and proposing improvements to governance practices.
• Guide evaluation of current and emerging technologies leading assessments using established data architecture standards and frameworks.
• Design develop and maintain logical and physical data models (e.g. using Erwin Data Modeler) optimizing architectures for automation and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Architect and implement scalable secure and reliable data solutions ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Champion and implement data mesh methodologies to enable decentralized data ownership and self-serve data infrastructure.
• Coordinate and facilitate federated data sharing across business units and application teams ensuring secure and efficient data exchange.
• Lead and coordinate research development and implementation of data products collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and ensure successful delivery.
• Drive automation of metadata management processes to enhance data discoverability lineage and governance; implement tools and frameworks for metadata capture and cataloging.
• Advise teams on database selection and data storage design including normalization principles and best practices considering scalability performance and cost.
• Guide teams on Trusted Data Quality (TDQ) principles and implementation patterns to ensure high-quality reliable data across applications and platforms.
• Design and enforce data transfer control procedures for secure and compliant data movement between OLTP applications and data lakes; architect and promote common APIs/tools for standardized data transfer.
• Provide technical guidance mentorship and best practices to application development data engineering and governance teams including junior architects and technologists.
• Ensure data quality security and compliance with regulatory standards and firmwide policies.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community advocating for data frameworks tools and practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in data automation platform capabilities and data product offerings.
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.