Data Architect (Model Bank) en Madrid

Job description

The Data Architect will be in charge of managing all aspects of data and information (both structured and unstructured) across the organization,  from translation of business and strategic requirements into an information architecture to logical and physical designs.

Main Responsibilities

• Spans the full information management lifecycle from information acquisition through analysis, cleanse, transform, classify and storage to presentation, distribution, security, privacy and archiving.
• Is responsible for defining recovery strategies and developing a repository strategy to all information architecture artefacts.
• Develops data standards (e.g. common business vocabulary, naming conventions, etc.) and defines the governance structure and classification of the information and data objects.
• Designs centralized or distributed solutions that both address the user’s requirements and perform efficiently and effectively.
• Identifies, stewards and leverages existing data/information assets across the organization. 

Knowledge and experience

• University degree (IT, Engineering) or equivalent professional experience
• Demonstrated experience in hands on development leadership role
• Proven experience in Agile environments and can work individually and as a team member
• Demonstrated involvement in successful change initiatives associated with IT in business.
• Work experience: 3-5y in as Data or Information Architect for large and complex organizations
• In-depth understanding of banking environment, products and processes.

Technical skills required

• Data Modelling techniques
• Data processing and Real Time data analytics technologies (Spark, Flink, Storm)
• Relational Databases (Oracle) and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis)
• Big Data strategies and platforms (HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Pig, Hortonworks, Cloudera …)
• DWH and Data governance (quality, lineage, metadata management, security and privacy) and Business Intelligence.
• Knowledge of non-functional aspects of IT Architecture (Performance, Resilience, Availability, Security, Storage management, etc.)

Other competences

• Good communication skills (written /verbal)
• Ability to operate at own initiative with a pro-active attitude, within the directions and confines of management and Bank policy
• Ability to liaise with a broad range of people, including line management, senior management, external suppliers and related people.
• Problem solving ability and strong analytical skills
• Fluent English both written and oral
• Accuracy and attention to details
• Experience working in a team; exhibits clear behavior of a team player