Company Description
namsbel provides strategic and systematic solutions to business problems across various verticals using a global network.
Role Description: The data architect is responsible for designing, creating, and managing an organization’s data architecture. This role is critical in establishing a solid foundation for data management within an organization, ensuring that data is organized, structured, accessible, secure, and aligned with business objectives.
Responsibilities
● Interact & Influence business stakeholders to secure strong engagement and ensures that the data & analytical product delivery aligns with longer-term strategic roadmaps
● Design & contribute towards the structure and layout of lake house architecture optimizing data storage, and establishing data access controls and security measures
● Implement the long-term Data & Analytics strategy and deliver functional objectives
● Assess requirement feasibility, translates high-level business requirements into data requirements, appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards
● Explore Data Sources by working with Application owners to confirm datasets to be extracted
● Contribute to establishing and implementing database structure, including schema design, table definitions, column specifications, and naming conventions
● Design Data models for Source data products, Master data products & Insight data products.
● Document Data Architecture artifacts for different Data Products and solutions and perform peer review across various functions.
● Support Data Engineering and BI Engineering teams during the build phase
● Review Data models development, validate and provide deployment approval
● Work closely with data stewards and governance functions to continuously improve data quality and enhance the reliability of data model(s).
● Simplify the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost-saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards of the company
● Leads and participates in the peer review and quality assurance of project architectural artifacts across the Data Architecture group through governance forums
● Collaborate and contribute to the development and enhancement of standards, guidelines, and best practices within Data Architecture discipline.
● Works with Product owners, Business stewards, Data Scientists and end users to understand data consumers’ needs and develop data products/ data solutions
● Evaluates and recommends emerging technologies for data management, storage, and analytics
Education
● A bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, engineering, or related field
Experience
● At least five years of relevant experience in design and implementation of data models for enterprise data warehouse initiatives
● Translate business requirements and ability to guide solution design & architecture in developing Data Products
● Develop scalable, high-performance, and reusable data models that can be efficiently utilized across different data initiatives and help in generating actionable insights
● Work collaboratively with data stewardship and governance functions to continuously improve data quality and enhance the reliability of data models
● Ability to navigate and collaborate with cross-functional teams involving data scientists, business analysts, and stakeholders
● Strong Business Process and Functional understanding with an Analytical background
● CPG experience with knowledge in domain specific concepts is a plus
● Knowledge on Agile methodologies with experience working on tools such as Jira & Confluence
Skills
● Proficiency in the design and implementation of modern data architectures and concepts such as cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), real-time data distribution (Kafka, Dataflow), and modern data warehouse tools (Snowflake)
● Experience with database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, Snowflake, HANA
● Understanding of entity-relationship modeling, metadata systems, and data quality tools and techniques
● Experience building enterprise data models (Logical, Physical, Conceptual) and data modeling tool experience a plus (ERWIN, ER/STUDIO, etc.)
● Strong Business Process and SAP functional understanding with an analytics background (preferred SAP ECC/S4, BW, HANA, BI, ARIBA experience) is a plus
● Expert-level SQL skills
● Experience with enterprise scale data engineering orchestration frameworks/ELT tools and common data engineering Python libraries (dbt, pandas, great expectations, etc.) is a plus
● Experience with business intelligence tools and technologies such as Power BI & Tableau
● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
● Understanding of Data Governance principles and practices including Data Quality, Data Security and compliance
● Ability to think strategically on the use of data within the Organization that support both current and future needs.