Senior Information Architect

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Leading information architecture practice in the enterprise, governing creation of data models and canonical data exchange interfaces development to support the creation of an enterprise data platform and other data centric applications. Designing and implementing a data model management process, repository to capture data models and integration of the repository with CICD pipeline for model promotion. Designing and implementing information taxonomies, enterprise glossaries and meta-models to support data traceability, lineage and a common vocabulary across information assets. Developing of enterprise integration (data vault) frameworks, creating standards for data vault models and infomart models to support enterprise data integration and line of business reporting needs. Developing and defining standards for information assets to discover curated information assets for review and usage. Creating, managing and integrating information taxonomies for business standardization and classification of banking and finance core concepts. Creating and managing meta-models in different tools like Collibra, Metacenter and ERWIN to integrate metadata across business and technical metadata tools. Translating business and technical metadata requirements into an information architecture framework and solution is a key requirement to enable a metadata drive data/information architecture. Assisting solution architects and technology partners to define and map standard integration patterns to solutions, standardize integration and data format transformation technologies and resolve issues pertaining to real-time and scheduled application integration. Translating Business Requirements to Technical Requirements for integration and advising the solution providers' designs on leveraging core middleware platforms, Enterprise Integration Patterns and standard service interfaces. Leading the evaluation of data/information architecture capabilities, business solutions and tools that will be managed within the organization. Architecting the strategic integration architecture roadmap and creating a short-, medium- and long-term implementation plan including API modeling, middleware design and the development of integration relationship structures to meet business requirements and objectives. Working closely with business and system analysts, business and technical users, system design/developers, API developers, the centralized technology department management team and other integration stakeholders and the management team in executing specific integration project tasks and responsibilities. Maintaining and enforcing best practices to facilitate optimized software development, standardization and classification of information, design of canonical interfaces. Supporting data flow processes, end-to-end, for projects and major initiatives including troubleshooting of integration issues through the process of information transfer, interface model design, access to the information and performance/speed resulting from integration issues. Providing solution architecture for modern data processing, modern data platforms, schema on read data pipeline design using big data paradigm preferably on Cloud platforms. Providing solution for data access using RBAK, design & implement data processing using SPARK/EMR. Providing solutions to ingest data and persist as objects on the lake and creating canonical models on cloud. Conducting POC's to select technologies, tools, platforms.

Qualifications - External

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering (Any), Information Technology or a related field (or foreign equivalent degree). In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, employer will accept two years of experience with Enterprise Data Solution Architecture & Implementation of data intensive applications and Enterprise Data Integration (Batch or Real Time) on cloud platforms; creating & implementing data information practice (data modeling standards & taxonomy design).

Experience: 8 years of experience with Enterprise Data Solution Architecture & Implementation of data intensive applications and Enterprise Data Integration (Batch or Real Time) on cloud platforms; creating & implementing data information practice (data modeling standards & taxonomy design); 7 years of experience must be in banking or financial services industry creating enterprise architecture approaches, patterns and standards; and 2 years of experience must include experience with Cloud Solutions Data Architecture and Enterprise Metadata (AWS lake formation, S3, Redshift, EMR, Parquet & Glue).

Other: Position requires 10% domestic travelling.

Location: Monterey Park, CA 91755

Reference internal requisition #10054434-WD.

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