First Citizens Bank · 4 hours ago
Senior Data Architect
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expFirst Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Data Architect to be a key member of their Information Technology organization. This role involves establishing and implementing the bank's data management technological direction, ensuring quality data implementations, and leading data architecture initiatives across multiple domains.
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Responsibilities
Drives enterprise-wide data management, architectural vision and strategy. Establishes a data management roadmap that translates high-level business planning information into application needs and solutions
Provides technical direction for the Bank's annual investment in all data technology areas, including data infrastructure, architecture, management, integration, quality, reporting, and analytics. Establishes collaborative, cross-functional relationships within IT and the business and communicates information and provides advice to drive enterprise data architecture decisions forward. Offers data guidance to application development teams. Collaborates effectively with business partners to understand how critical business concepts are captured in data and to solve complex problems and meet business needs. Communicates a clear vision for IT management and senior technical staff to ensure maximum leverage of both purchased and developed technology
Provides data architecture thought leadership to cross-functional teams in the areas of advanced data techniques, including data modeling, data access, data integration, data visualization, data discovery, statistical methods, database design and implementation. Utilizes expertise to partner with the design of enterprise data solutions, planning technology migrations, vendor or product selection, and solution integration. Designs enterprise data warehouses and departmental/competency data marts that allow businesses to derive corporate strategies and actionable tactics from the data, optimizing reporting and analytics
Designs, creates, and maintains the conceptual data infrastructure to support data quality, data stewardship, data integration, data migration and system collaboration in support of business model and information needs. Documents the blueprint of the data infrastructure in text documents and graphic diagrams that can be leveraged by the enterprise, including master plan of the enterprise data locations, data flows and data availability. Sets standards, policies, guidelines, and best practices which ensure that data assets are managed appropriately, including standardizing data definitions, data formats, and the acceptable storage, integration and usage of data for high data quality and unquestionable data reliability
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree and 10 years of experience in Application Development, Systems Engineering, or Information Technology management
OR
High School Diploma or GED and 14 years of experience in Application Development, Systems Engineering, or Information Technology management
Working experience in financial services and retail banking, corporate function data architecture and product development experience
Experience in financial services regulatory reporting requirements i.e, (y9c, y14, y15, 2052a etc.,)
Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into an efficient architecture solution
Experience in developing data warehouse solutions and end-to-end development life-cycle support and SDLC processes
Knowledge of database platforms, data mesh architecture, and application designs that cross those platforms
Excellent problem-solving skills and data modeling skills (logical, physical, semantic etc.,)
Experience in technology infrastructure management
Substantive experience leading data technology and delivery across multiple platforms (ex: Netezza, Collibra, Snowflake)
Experience with Data Movement & Consumption
Experience building and sustaining credibility with senior leaders across an organization
Ability to prioritize investment on new data-related technologies in conjunction with business units
Ability to maximize data-based decisions for key business units
Outstanding Leadership & Communication skills
Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
Preferred
Financial Services industry experience
Company
First Citizens Bank
First Citizens Bank provides banking services, essential business and professional services, wealth management capabilities, and more.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$33M2021-05-07Post Ipo Debt· $10M
2018-08-29Post Ipo Debt· $23M
1986-10-31IPO
Leadership Team
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Craig Nix
Chief Financial Officer
Samantha Bureau - Johnson
SVP & Director, Customer Contact Center
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