Sr. Data Architect

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We have an immediate opportunity for Sr. Data Architect - 13+ years of experience at Synechron - Dubai

Job Role: Sr. Data Architect

Job Location: Dubai

About Company:

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron's progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs, we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications, and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,700+, and has 48 offices in 19 countries within key global markets. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Synechron's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity. We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron. The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences. So, it doesn't matter where you're from or what you've had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we'll support you like we support each other. Choose a career with us and let's pursue innovation together.

Job Description:

Job Purpose

The Sr. Data Architect works closely with other SDA and Leads and helps drive the Data Management and Analytics vision and strategy to deliver common, secure, and consistent data capabilities across the Client. This role will involve strategic initiatives and reports into the Head of Data Engineering Chapter and will manage the Data architecture and design of related approaches, tools, and technologies.

The primary task is to drive and transform the data capabilities and enable a data-driven culture across the group and therefore work with other architects and platform teams to ensure data is managed as an asset in a centralized, standardized, and consistent manner in order to maintain consistency and quality, using mature technologies and emerging data practices.

This role requires an understanding of various data management and processing related technologies and choices, has a deep understanding of both SQL/No-SQL technologies, distributed computing framework, and techniques to make right tools.

Key Results:

• Develop data architecture vision and standards in conjunction with business users and stewards.
• Outline short-term incremental solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall data management roadmap.
• Create data exchange standards to ensure reusability and a decoupled architecture.
• Create standards for data archival and purging.
• Identify and drive the implementation of secured data solutions.
• Develop data access matrix and ensure the right information reaches the right people through secured channels.
• Develop strategy to align with external regulatory requirements.
• Identify and document critical data elements across source system of records.
• Define and document the data quality rules and standards.
• Assess and define data governance and stewardship maturity roadmap.
• Work with data engineers and source system experts to define the standards and principles for capturing lineage and data flow.
• Define standards for data pipeline scheduling and monitoring.
• Provide technical recommendations and engage with data engineers and BI leads throughout the solutioning and implementation lifecycle.
• Recommend effective solutions to develop high performant and scalable data pipelines.
• Work with source system expertise to understand the data domains and source to target mapping.
• Build and maintain canonical data model to standardize data exchange between systems and with various architects to enforce the same.

Education:

• Master's or bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems management or related field.
• Solution and Architecture certifications such as TOGAF or others.

Experiences:

• More than 5+ years of experience in information technology, with 2+ years spent in data architecture or technology solutions definitions and implementations.
• Managerial Expertise in Data Architecture, Data Strategy, and Roadmap for large and complex organizations and systems and implemented large scale end-to-end Data Management & Analytics solutions.
• Experience in transforming traditional Data Warehousing approaches to Big Data based approaches and a proven track record of managing risks and data security.
• Expertise with DW Dimensional modeling techniques, Star & Snowflake schemas, modeling slowly changing dimensions and role-playing dimensions, dimensional hierarchies, and data classification.
• Experience in cloud native principles, designs, and deployments.
• Extensive experience working with and enhancing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD) environments.
• Expertise in Data Quality, Data Profiling, Data Governance, Data Security, Metadata Management, and Data Archival.
• Define workload migration strategies using appropriate tools.
• Drive delivery in a matrixed environment working with various internal IT partners.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment with short deadlines, interruptions, and multiple tasks/projects occurring simultaneously.
• Must be able to work independently and have skills in planning, strategy, estimation, scheduling.
• Strong problem solving, influencing, communication, and presentation skills, self-starter.
• Experience with data processing frameworks and platforms (Informatica, Hadoop, Presto, Tez, Hive, Spark, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Python, GIT, Jenkins).
• Exposure to BI tools and reporting software (e.g. MS PowerBI and Tableau).

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• Expected CTC
• Current Location
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