Job Location- Bangalore, India (On-Site)Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion.At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realize their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.Job Role- Lead Data Architect:The unit is responsible for building, implementing and enforcing common structures and guidelines for architecture, development and testing practices in order to enable world-class solutions definition, delivery and build resilient, agile and secured technology landscape aligned with Emirates NBD business strategy.The primary task is to drive and transform the data capabilities and enable a data-driven culture across the group and therefore work with other architects and platform teams to ensure data is managed as an asset in a centralized, standardized, and consistent manner in order to maintain consistency and quality, using mature technologies and emerging data practices.Job Responsibilities:Develop data architecture vision and standards in conjunction with business users and stewardsOutline short-term incremental solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall data management roadmapCreate data exchange standards to ensure reusability and a decoupled architectureCreate standards for data archival and purgingIdentify and drive the implementation of secured data solutionsDevelop data access matrix and ensure right information reaches the right people through secured channelsIdentify and document critical data elements across source system of recordsDefine and document the data quality rules and standardsAssess and define data governance and stewardship maturity roadmapWork with data engineers and source system experts to define the standards and principles for capturing lineage and data flowDefine data exception handling processesDefine standards for data pipeline scheduling and monitoringProvide technical recommendations and engage with data engineers and BI leads throughout the solutioning and implementation lifecycleRecommend effective solutions to develop high performant and scalable data pipelinesWork with source system expertise to understand the data domains and source to target mappingBuild and maintain canonical datamodel to standardize data exchange between systems and with various architects to enforce the sameDevelop strategy to align with external regulatory requirementsThis role requires an understanding of various data management and processing related technologies and choices, has a deep understanding of both SQL/No-SQL technologies, distributed computing framework, and techniques to make right tools and technology choices.Job Requirements: More than 8 years of experience in information technology, with 3 years spent in data architecture or technology solutions definitions and implementations.Extensive experience in banking and financial services domainExpertise in Data Architecture, Data Strategy and Roadmap for large and complex organization and systems and implemented large scale end-to-end Data Management & Analytics solutionsExperience in transforming traditional Data Warehousing approaches to Big Data based approaches and proven track record of managing risks and data securityExpertise with DW Dimensional modeling techniques, Star & Snowflake schemas, modeling slowly changing dimensions and role playing dimensions, dimensional hierarchies, and data classificationExperiences in cloud native principals, designs and deployments.Extensive experience working with and enhancing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD) environmentsExpertise in DataMesh, Data Quality, Data Profiling, Data Governance, Data Security, Metadata Management, and Data ArchivalDrive delivery in a matrixed environment working with various internal IT partnersExperience with data processing frameworks and platforms (Informatica, Hadoop, Presto, Tez, Hive, Spark etc.)Production experience and expertise in Machine Learning architecture, Feature store and MLOps.Machine Learning Architecture & Data architecture for large and complex organization and systems and implemented large scale end-to-end Analytics & Data solutionsHands-on experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Python, GIT, Jenkins)Exposure to BI tools and reporting software (e.g. MS PowerBI and Tableau)
Job Title
Lead Data Architect