Data Architect (VP/ED) – Data Architecture

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Company Overview

A leading financial institution in Southeast Asia with over 80 years of heritage, committed to innovative financial solutions and exceptional customer service. It offers a dynamic, collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional growth in a forward-thinking organization.

Job Title: Data Architect (VP/ED) – Data Architecture

Why Join

As a Data Architect, you will be at the forefront of transforming the bank’s data architecture, enabling large-scale machine learning and analytics use cases, and driving the bank’s Digital Transformation. You will have the opportunity to work on a multi-year roadmap to modernize the  data architecture, collaborating with business and technology leads, application architects, data science, and data engineering teams across the¹ bank. This is a unique chance to make a significant impact on the bank’s future and build a career as a Subject Matter Expert in data architecture.

How you succeed

To succeed in this role, you will need to be a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of data architecture and its role in driving business outcomes. You will need to be able to collaborate with stakeholders across the group to ensure buy-in on strategic data initiatives and define data platform processes and best practices. You will also need to be a strong communicator and influencer, able to consult and influence digital application teams and provide training and share best practices across teams.

What you do

• Contribute to the roadmap to transform data architecture focusing on scalability, performance, and flexibility
• Maintain data architecture framework, standards, and principles
• Contribute to reference architecture and architectural designs solution context diagram and conceptual data model
• Work closely with data engineering team, Business Analysts, and support the design aligning with the bank’s data architecture standards and principles²
• Consult and influence digital application teams regarding solutions³
• Provide training and share best practices across teams regarding data architecture design and solution implementation
• Develop and apply industry best practice technology, design, and methodology approaches to design bank’s data architecture⁴

Who you work with

The Data Architect role is part of the Data Architecture team in OCBC Group Operations and Technology (GO&T) division. You will work closely with data engineering teams, Business Analysts, digital application teams, and other stakeholders across the bank to enable large-scale machine learning and analytics use cases.

Qualifications

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
• 5-8 years of experience in designing and building high-performance data architectures
• Experience in cloud-based data architecture and data governance is an advantage
• Experience in designing data architectures that support real-time and batch use-cases
• Knowledge of data governance principles and standards
• Experience in implementing data governance and data quality standards
• Experience in cloud-based data architecture and data governance
• Familiarity with DevOps / DataOps / MLOps concepts
• Strong experience with traditional data technologies (ODS, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Lakehouse)
• Experience in designing data patterns to support micro-service based application architecture⁵
• Knowledge of container-based big data architectures and Kubernetes
• Experience with big data technologies (Hive, Pig, Impala, Spark)
• Expertise in RDBMS (Teradata/Oracle, PostgreSQL, Vertica, etc), PL/SQL, data modeling & ETL/ELT
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to deliver technology solutions that enable tangible business benefits
• TOGAF/DAMA certification is an advantage

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