Description
The Data Architect will define, design, and govern the data architecture for Billing end-to-end process, enabling scalable, secure, and business-aligned data platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Data Architecture
- Define and maintain the data architecture roadmap aligned with business and technology strategies.
- Design scalable and reusable data architectures, including operational, analytical, and reporting data layers.
- Establish enterprise data models, conceptual, logical, and physical data models, ensuring consistency across domains.
- Develop and maintain dimensional models, star schemas, and canonical data models to support reporting and analytics requirements.
- Drive architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices for data platforms and integrations.
Data Acquisition & Integration
- Design and govern data ingestion, integration, and transformation frameworks using native AWS tools like Glue, Air Flow, and Snowflake, Data Bricks as Data Store.
- Architect data pipelines and integration patterns for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
- Ensure end-to-end data lineage, reconciliation, and traceability across all billing process data flows.
- Define standards for data quality, validation, and data synchronization across platforms.
- Optimize data movement and transformation processes for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Cloud Data Platform & Warehousing
- Architect enterprise data solutions leveraging Snowflake and cloud platforms including AWS.
- Define data storage, compute, security, and data lifecycle management strategies.
- Design modern data warehouse, data lake, and lakehouse architectures to support enterprise-wide reporting and analytics.
- Establish standards for data partitioning, clustering, performance optimization, and workload management.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure resilient and scalable data environments.
Reporting & Analytics Enablement
- Partner with reporting and analytics teams to ensure data architectures support business intelligence and self-service analytics.
- Define and maintain certified data products and semantic layers for reporting tools such as Power BI.
- Ensure data models are optimized for analytical consumption and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Enable consistent metrics, KPIs, and master data definitions across business functions.
Governance, Metadata & Security
- Lead implementation of enterprise data governance frameworks, standards, and policies.
- Establish and manage metadata management, business glossaries, and data catalog capabilities.
- Define data security architecture, including role-based access controls, encryption, masking, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Ensure adherence to audit, risk, privacy, and regulatory standards.
- Promote data stewardship and ownership across business and technology teams.
Data Operations & Orchestration
- Define standards for workflow orchestration and scheduling using Control-M or equivalent enterprise scheduling tools.
- Design monitoring frameworks for data quality, pipeline reliability, and operational excellence.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity considerations are embedded into data architecture designs.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Extensive experience in Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, and Enterprise Data Modeling.
- Strong expertise in Snowflake architecture, administration, and performance optimization.
- Experience with ETL/ELT platforms such as AWS Glue, Airflow, Ab Initio, Matillion, DataStage, or comparable technologies.
- Deep understanding of dimensional modeling, star schema, data vault, and enterprise data modeling techniques.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure data services.
- Strong knowledge of data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks.
- Experience defining architecture standards, integration patterns, and technology roadmaps.
- Understanding of security, compliance, and risk management principles for enterprise data environments.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and documentation skills.
Benefits:
- Equal opportunity employer with hybrid working arrangements.
- Annual Leave and Parental Leave benefits.
- Upskilling opportunities through role-relevant training and certifications.
- Dedicated Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programs.
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale data transformation and analytics initiatives.
- Collaborative environment focused on innovation, growth, and continuous learning.