Data Architect - HCL Global Systems Inc.

Director, Data Architecture

As a Director of Data Architecture in Digital Foundation Architecture, you collaborate and build positive relationships with business leads and technology product teams across business units, driving our data architectures and technology patterns. You will blend deep expertise and experience in engineering, technical design, systems, solutions focused on the server side, and database management with a passion for coaching and mentoring engineering associates. You will bring industry standard methodologies, perform research on industry trends and lead data eccentric evaluation efforts including implementation of POC's. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Client business, architecture, and product leaders to establish the data standards for your area and influence the strategic decisions, solution development and work priorities.
We seek a hard-working leader, collaborator with Data Architecture expertise who is willing to learn fast, adapt well to changing requirements and work with multi-functional teams to deliver governed common data management capabilities.

Successful candidates would possess the following:

• Depth of knowledge in architecture and an ability to translate business objectives into technology solutions. Experience in a wide array of architecture patterns including architecting highly performant database systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, data architecture and security architectures. Knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, and the cloud platforms, especially AWS is desired. Experience in delivering architecture artifacts and planning activities, communication materials and status updates.
• Deep technical foundation: Drives the data architecture technology vision to support the next generation of investment data platform. Knowledge of the financial industry and data management concepts is a plus.
• Passionate about technology and applying it to solve intricate challenges. Proactively investigate, proves out and incorporates new technologies and capabilities, staying ahead of business and product team needs. Learn Client Cloud, Security and Data Privacy policies and guidelines and governance process and ensure alignment of these initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability in defining new and/or evolving existing data strategies; aligning with enterprise direction, collaborating with, and influencing others to gain consensus on and adopt and implement accordingly. Defines patterns and standards for data platforms, design, engineering, and development.
• Collaborate with architect communities across Client Data Architecture and in cross business unit working teams at the enterprise level. Ability to proactively seek out, collaborate and establish relationships with critical partners to ensure integration, coordination & execution of work.