Data Solutions Architect

Federal Reserve Bank - Dallas, TX

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level

Dallas, TX

Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

About the position

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is seeking an experienced Data Solutions Architect to join its Data and Analytics Services Team. This role focuses on empowering the Federal Reserve's business functions with data-driven insights and modern cloud data solutions. The architect will collaborate with cross-functional teams in a complex environment, applying product thinking to enhance business value and reimagine data analytics delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design secure and reliable data analytics solutions for a national business line on AWS Cloud.
• Ensure required architecture runway, aligning to business product roadmaps, partnering with other architects and system stakeholders.
• Lead technical discussions, provide architectural guidance, and influence technology decisions.
• Drive Proof of Concept (PoC) works, which may involve hands-on development, while keeping up with relevant new technologies.
• Ensure data quality, security, and compliance, support information security risk assessments.
• Support multiple product teams through infrastructure build, solution delivery and operations, leading troubleshoot of technical issues, as needed.
• Lead architecture/design/code reviews, define and monitor best practices and provide guidance.
• Mentor staff transitioning to Cloud data engineering and drive internal knowledge sharing.
• Develop solution architecture blueprints and engineering designs for Data Analytics and Reporting projects or programs.
• Provide strategic foresight and long-term development planning for future technology adoption.
• Evaluate solution options including tools and technologies to design the best fit solution to meet current and future business needs in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Be responsible for architectural decisions, standards, technical planning, architecture development and technical specifications for existing and/or new solutions and services.
• Anticipate business needs and lead complex end-to-end efforts independently with minimal supervision.
• Provide guidance to team members, help solve technical challenges, and remove roadblocks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, and software engineering.
• Five or more years of technical experience across data engineering, data modeling, data governance.
• Experience developing and driving solution architecture for large scale business solutions on AWS with an understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Prior experience with cloud architecture in setting the Cloud Development direction for the development team.
• General understanding of the cyber security threat landscape and controls as it applies to the application and data space to design solutions in a highly regulated GovCloud environment.
• Thorough understanding of the AWS security architecture to enable design of solutions and integrations with least privileges across services, resources and data.
• Thorough understanding of the architecture patterns related to Single SignOn (SSO), Federated and Multi-Factor Authentications across various services/clouds using Okta and other providers.
• Ability to design CI/CD pipelines with clear understanding of DevSecOps, Threat modeling concepts and be able to provide resolutions to vulnerabilities reported by the security scans.
• Solid hands-on software engineering skills with object-oriented and functional programming languages (esp. Python and Java) along with SQL and no-SQL database experience as well as Infrastructure as a Code (IAC, preferable Terraform).
• Ability to design solutions that can perform real-time, large-scale data processing in a distributed environment using Apache Spark using PySpark or other.
• High level understanding of the network concepts including VPCs, subnets, security groups, routing tables, ACLs etc.
• Conversant with most AWS services: S3, Glue, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, KMS, EC2, Athena, RedShift, Aurora, DynamoDB, Quick Sight.
• One or more AWS cloud certifications (Associated Solution Architect or Developer).
• Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare options (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
• 401K match, and a fully funded pension plan
• Paid vacation, holidays, and volunteer hours; flexible work environment
• Generously subsidized public transportation and free parking
• Annual tuition reimbursement
• Professional development programs, training and conferences