Senior Data Architect

**Senior Data Architect - Group Technology Architecture** **-** **(**230000PQ**)**

The Senior Data Architect role is part of Enterprise Architecture team in OCBC Group Operations and Technology division, focusing on the transformation the existing data architecture and build of the next generation data platform across OCBC Group to support the bank’s Digital Transformation.

You will act as a thought leader for the organization, defining data platform processes and best practices - engaging senior stakeholders across the group to ensure their continued buy-in on strategic data initiatives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Define roadmap to transform data architecture focusing on scalability, performance and flexibility throughout the entire data life cycle (ingestion, storage and consumption).
- Maintain data architecture framework, standards and principles including modeling, metadata, security, master and reference data
- Define reference architecture as a set of patterns based on use cases that can leveraged to create and improve data systems for current and future needs.
- Lead architectural designs solution context diagram and conceptual data model to optimize security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability and ensure solutions developed adhere and aligns to the delivered architecture.
- Work closely with data engineering team, Business Analysts and support the design aligning with the bank’s data architecture standards and principles
- Work closely with Solutioning, Infrastructure and project teams to understand their needs and ensure the data architecture is embedded as part of data driven, informed and aware design.
- Provide training and share best practices across teams regarding data architecture design and solution implementation including review and quality assurance.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- 10+ years of experience in designing and building high performance resilient data architectures. Understanding of how data architecture fits with other architecture disciplines
- At least 5 years of experience in implementing data governance, standards and principles. Data Architecture / Governance design on the Cloud is an advantage in terms of good understanding of cloud methodologies and experience with AWS or GCP tool suites and services
- Strong experience with traditional data technologies (ODS, Data Lake, Data Warehouse).
- Strong Experience with traditional data technologies (ODS, Data Lake, Data Warehouse. Data Lakehouse).
- Track record in successfully building container-based big data architectures on top of Kubernetes.
- Experience in designing systems to efficiently handle real-time and batch use-cases.
- Exposure and understanding in the latest open source technologies across the big data ecosystem, such as distributed storage, real-time event processing and large scale distributed OLAP engines.
- Experience in CDC, Data as a Service concepts, data tokenisation, data virtualization, data fabric and data mesh
- Working knowledge of Analytics, AI, data modelling and data science processes and best practices, with experience in building scalable architectures through the use of data science workflow orchestrators
- Experience in ERP and / or HCM Data Architecture delivering reusable services and cost saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards of the organization.
- Hands on experience on AI Ops, DevOps / DataOps / MLOps concepts
- Expertise in RDBMS (Teradata/Oracle, PostgreSQL, Vertica etc), PL/SQL, data modeling & ETL/ELT, Snowflake, SingleStore or similar platforms
- Expertise in Big Data Technologies like Hive, Pig, Impala, Spark.
- Working knowledge on BI tools like Qlik/ Tableau/ Power BI.
- Experience in performance tuning, capacity planning and sizing
- Embodies a collaborative approach in bringing both business and technology stakeholders together to deliver technology solutions that enable tangible business benefits
- Good understanding of Data Repositories: e.g. SQL Server, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, cloud storage
- Experience in implementing RESTful API and services using frameworks such as Springboot or flask
- Exceptional communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.\
- Must be a team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus. Must be highly reliable, trustworthy, honest, and commitment oriented.
- Strong situational analysis, decision-making abilities and analytical skills
- Ability to drive an independent project from an architectural standpoint.
- TOGAF/DAMA certification would be good to have
- Familiarity with working in agile and waterfall approaches
- In-depth understanding and knowledge of business and technology trends

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