Description
Looking for an Architect who will be responsible for defining, maintaining and ensuring consistency/integrity of the data flowing through the product processors on a complex large program.
Work Activities
- Creating highly detailed data flow diagrams and design across a complex integration footprint
- Develop and maintain the IT asset register and the data lineage across the applications within Global Fund Services
- Define and maintain standard entities, related to Investment and Fund Accounting, and their corresponding dictionaries.
- Ensure data consistency between the processors (primary/foreign keys, field sizing)
- Review and document the physical architecture including hardware, capacity planning, and performance of various systems
- Conduct design reviews with the development teams and identify the upstream and downstream dependencies
- Provide expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and IT practices. This will include standard for data artifacts - data dictionaries, input file formats, output file formats and the selection and use of Datamodelling, lineage reporting and metadata related tools
- Creating traceability between service offering documents, BRD and the design/build of the plan.
Qualifications
- Prior experience working on a large and complex project for a large Fund Services provider
- Prior experience working in an OLTP, ODS and data lake environment (Oracle, cloudera)
- Strong expertise in technical analysis. Ability to produce detailed mapping specifications and data flow diagrams
- Design and development history indicating expertise across the full SDLC
- Deep understanding of enterprise level data transfer methodologies such as AbInitio, Talend, CADIS
- Strong understanding of enterprise metadata management tools. Experience with IBM Information Governance catalog a distinct advantage.
- Ability to gather business requirements, perform analysis and establish/recommend a data integration architecture
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
EXPERIENCE:
- 10+ years of experience building and maintaining data models in the financial services industry
- Knowledge of Fund Services products and service offerings with in-depth knowledge in one of Fund/Investment Accounting, Fund Administration or Middle Office Services
- Experience with one or more accounting platforms - MultiFonds, a distinct advantage.
- Experience with enterprise/reference data models
- Experience with one of the enterprise metadata management tools.
- Knowledge of JIRA and Microsoft project plan