The Opportunity:
Data Architects are responsible for designing data and information systems to support the organization's growing needs. Defines and communicates a shared technical and architectural vision to help ensure solutions meet the strategic needs of the company.
Day in the Life:
- Serves as technical lead to strategic and enterprise level data driven projects, collaborates with other architecture areas and the wider organization.
- Follows and advises on industry standards and advances on data driven technologies and tools.
- Designs, implements, and updates best practices for the data development team.
- Represents project level data concerns to the enterprise board.
- Collaborates to mature data development standards and practices
- Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to architectural review board and technology review committee.
- Creates architectural artifacts along the project lifecycle to document technical requirements and vision
- Works with members of the product team to assess needs and determine the underlying issue that needs to be solved
- Must be able to collaborate with product to define requirements and translate into epics and features.
- Must be able to communicate technical content to a non-technical person
- Must lead projects across scrum teams offering architectural direction to those teams. Exposes project and solution related architectural issues to the wider architecture team.
- Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will offer secure solutions and will be effectively integrated with current applications
- Capable of defining the correct strategy maturity to deliver right sized solutions that are value oriented around business needs
- Creates enterprise level end-to-end data flow diagrams.
- Creates data consolidation and migration plans.
- Creates conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Designs ETL/ELT patterns for analytics and reporting systems.
- Reviews complex Azure Data Factory pipelines for various reporting and data development projects.
- Designs solutions for data lake, data lakehouse, data warehouses, and similar cloud data architectures.
- Creates and maintains documentation related to data development best practices, enterprise level data flow diagrams, and project code promotion.
- Provides recommendations to technology tools, products and services to help keep our environment on the cutting edge of technology.
- Ensure compliance with established SDLC (System Development Lifecycle) frameworks, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing & deployment.
- Ensure compliance with established Agile model (Scrum or Kanban, as applicable).
- Ensure compliance with all the audit requirements of the company.
- Perform duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in CIS, Data Science, Data Analytics or related field preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
- Seven (7) years of working in a data function or equivalent position where primary responsibility is working with data, database design, and data development is the primary responsibility.
- Best practices for encryption, tokenization, data development, and access control within a PCI (Payment Card Industry) environment.
- Ability to analyze enterprise level data sources and determine relationships between disparate sources.
- Determine methodologies for integration with third-party data sets.
- Expertise in data warehousing and data modeling methodologies, tools and best practices
- Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats and give presentations utilizing various audiovisual support aids
- Expertise in data warehousing and data modeling methodologies, tools and best practices.
- Financial industry knowledge.
- Agile methodologies.
- Expert knowledge of data catalogs, master data management (MDM and ETL/ELT design.
- Snowflake or SQL Server development experience is a plus.
- Databricks experience is a plus
- Ability to plan, track and control projects in a fast-paced environment, while managing multiple priorities/projects and meeting deadlines
- Thorough understanding of card payment industry, various processing systems, and/or related in-house applications is a plus
- Ability to travel as needed
For California, Colorado and New York Applicants: In accordance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the expected salary range for this position is between:
$110,100.00 - $143,100.00
Actual Pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.
This position qualifies for the following benefits; Co-op Solutions offers a competitive Total Rewards package: 401(k) with generous company match, Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance options, Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term disability benefits, Pregnancy and Parental Leave, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays, Community Volunteer Time Off, and an Employee Assistance Program.
Top Skills
What We Do
Co-op Solutions is the market-leading financial technology ecosystem for credit unions. A proven innovator for more than 40 years, today we help credit unions become their members’ primary financial relationship through the most reliable, secure, digital-first payments experience for the modern member. And, because every credit union is different, Co-op brings a core-agnostic, configurable approach to building a modern payments strategy that is right for credit unions and members alike.
Co-op understands what is unique and special about credit unions. We share the mission of people helping people. We are a cooperative built by, owned by and for the credit union movement. And we connect credit unions with other credit unions, serving as a catalyst for industry partnership, research and thought leadership. We work with the top credit unions across the U.S., powering more than 8 billion transactions annually.
Co-op Solutions. Make every experience matter.
