Data Architect

Iminds Technology Systems - Evanston, IL

Full-time

Evanston, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Data Architect role is focused on designing and implementing data management and governance frameworks, ensuring optimal data storage, transformation, and security. This position requires extensive experience in architecting data solutions, particularly in the finance domain, and involves collaboration with business teams to negotiate and deliver effective data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that data management and governance frameworks are in place and adhered to.
• Architect data engineering pipelines including data acquisition, ingestion, management, processing, and publishing using various AWS services.
• Develop and optimize database models to store and retrieve company information.
• Determine strategic data requirements and create high-level designs according to these requirements.
• Guide and resolve issues with AWS service configuration, performance, security compliance, data quality issues, and data retrieval.
• Prepare architecture and high-level design documents for data engineering pipelines.
• Design DevOps & DataOps pipelines and resolve issues during implementation and execution.
• Research data acquisition opportunities.

Requirements

• 12-15 years of experience in data architecture and engineering.
• Expertise in finance domain data.
• Ability to model data in Data Lake and Data Warehouse for analytical use cases.
• Strong negotiation skills with business teams and business analysts.
• Experience in architecting and designing data storage, transformation, security, quality, and performance optimization techniques in AWS and Snowflake.
• Ability to architect and solution data pipelines for batch, streaming, API, message queues, and real-time sources.
• Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Ability to create clear and impactful presentations based on the audience.