Senior Data Architect

American express

Bangalore,India

Job Description

About the job

If you build it right, business will grow.

Our Data Architects know that tapping the true value of data takes more than creating a blueprint and following it; it takes a strategic vision and deep experience. It’s the foundation that supports our company, our business partners and our customers. If creating the framework that’s the envy of the business world captures your imagination, build your career here.

The foundation of what you’ll be doing.

The responsibilities are extensive and complex, but here’s a rough outline. 

• Lead development of enterprise and platform-specific data strategies and data architectures
• Take charge of data governance, master data management, metadata management and conceptual data modeling
• Develop platform blueprint strategic directions to that support customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications
• Transform logical data architectures into physical data designs on large or complex system
• Work collaboratively with business and product teams to support changes and implementation
• Performs structured data requirements analysis, data modeling and database administration in support of application development for Relational and NoSQL databases. Supports the development of Enterprise Data Architectures.

• Prefer Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Management, Computer Science Engineering or related subject.
• Experience working independently as an Application Data Modeler, Business Analyst and/or business partner where the majority of time was spent analyzing business data requirements.
• Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to understand and document business data requirements in complete, accurate, extensible, flexible logical data models using CASE modeling tools e.g. ER/Studio, Hackolade.
• Understanding of the full development project lifecycle and a project lifecycle methodology
• Familiarity with Data Architect role within project lifecycle methodology, as well as other development project roles e.g. Business Analyst and DBA within the methodology.
• Able to facilitate discussions between small groups of IT and business people, recognize issues of conflict and inconsistency between data requirements and pursue a resolution of these issues.
• Experience in NoSQL Database Administration related to Couchbase, Cassandra and MongoDB.
• Ability to plan, scope and estimate work effort.
• Ability to work co-operatively as part of a team, as well as independently under own initiative. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.