Data Architect at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in New York, New York

Job Description:

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York positions you at the center of the financial world with a unique perspective on national and international markets and economies. You will work in an environment with a diverse group of experienced professionals to foster and support the safety, soundness, and vitality of our economic and financial systems.

The Bank believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Employees can expect to be in the office a couple of days per week as needed for meetings and team collaboration and should live within a commutable distance.

What we do: 

Enterprise Architecture (EA) consolidates accountability for technology choices and solution design across the Technology Group (TG) and the full portfolio, ensuring consistent leadership in the solution design process. EA:

• Elevates the discussion and strategic value of technology within each business area and simplifies access to enterprise level architects


• Sets enterprise architecture policies and standards to facilitate uniform, practical, and efficient product development


• Actively engages and collaborates with System IT architects and FRS stakeholders

The outcome is that FRBNY’s overall architecture blueprint and roadmap are developed and clearly communicated to Business, Technology Leaders and COO, resulting in uniform, practical, and efficient product development in FRBNY as a result of EA policies and guidelines.

Your role as Data Architect:

• Lead creation and drive to adaption of enterprise Data Architecture Vision, Strategy, Standards, Roadmap and Design the Data Architecture best practices/patterns to be implemented as a repeatable process for Data ingestion, cleansing, wrangling, governance, and features needed for End-to-End Data Lifecycle management


• A data architect is a technical leader with a deep understanding of business goals, business processes and data architecture who designs and supports the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural standards.


• Represent EA as a leader of large and complex portfolio of solutions supporting and aligned with business products.


• Propose architecture solutions based on business and technology considerations. Create architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development as a bridge between technical and business audiences during solution development.


• Map processes, capabilities, and data object models to application types and specific solutions in application landscape for assigned area


• Promote re-use and shared services to reduce complexity of the technology portfolio


• Lead evaluation, design, and analysis of enterprise-wide solutions.


• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.


• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, information security, applications and infrastructure teams to produce optimal designs.


• Ensure compliance of solutions to architectural standards.


• Act as a subject matter expert on technologies and trends in your domain of expertise.


• Act as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings.


• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the technologies, standards, processes and current/target state architectures for data across the enterprise.


• Designs and maintains of common data models within assigned domains as part of an overall common data model (including central IT-specification of business objects for technical integration)


• Coordinate data distribution and consolidation across different sources (IT applications and enterprise data stores)


• Design enterprise-wide data solutions ensuring compliance of data integration between applications


• Determine tools and strategies to address business problems through modern data architecture concepts, modeling and understanding key business processes and impact of technology on business processes


• Ensure project level solutions adhere to strategic direction in terms of the technologies, standards, processes, and current/target state architectures for data across the enterprise.


• Ensure project level solutions, data governance and data quality align with the strategy and architecture for managing enterprise data


• Work with project level business and IT stakeholders to ensure data solutions address business and IT objectives.


• Lead design, development, implementation, and maintenance efforts of all levels of complexity related to data systems and solutions.


• Develop project level conceptual, logical, and physical data models, as well as data integration pipelines to support data analysis and business intelligence solutions.


• Track, evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for relevant data management, data science, storage, and analytic technologies.


• Participate in working groups comprised of Federal Reserve System Data architects and Information Management workgroups, and continuous learning through attending data architecture-related conferences, seminars, and events

You will be an individual contributor residing in EA and reporting to the Department Head of Data Architecture. You will be an experienced and independent Data Architect professional with demonstrated expertise, business involvement, and ability to work in a matrix operating model and federated environment.

What we are looking for:

• Relevant experience in data warehousing, data modeling, data integration and/or data analysis with 5+ years of relevant work experience. 


• Ability to relate architectural decisions and recommendations to business needs.


• Ability to evaluate new and existing tools and technologies to address business needs such as MuleSoft; Apigee; GraphQL; and Kafka.


• Experience building cloud based integrations via API's would be a plus.


• Hands on Experience with database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, Hadoop, Snowflake, Lakehouse Formation and Data Mesh concepts) and ETL/Business Intelligence tools, including cloud-based offerings (AWS, Azure)


• Experience developing reference architecture, principles, and standards


• Have 1 or more data related certifications with emphasis on cloud services


• In-depth knowledge of current and latest data technology, DAMA standards and frameworks, enterprise architecture modeling tools (Mega HOPEX preferred), information management trends and industry developments with experience managing critical data infrastructure and the changing technology needs of a modern knowledge workforce.


• Conduct hands-on and present results of proof of concepts to multiple partners within and outside of EA. Knowledge of AWS Cloud Data related services, Java, Python or other relevant programming skills is desirable.


• Ability to adapt to continually changing priorities and aggressive project timeframes.


• Experience managing and driving diverse project portfolio, working with customers and colleagues. 


• Commitment toward diversity and inclusion and one who values diversity of background, thought and perspectives.


• Satisfy the Federal Reserve System’s Conflict of Interest requirements.

Benefits:

Our organization offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:

·         Fully paid Pension plan and 401k with Generous Match

·         Comprehensive Insurance Plans (Medical, Dental and Vision including Flexible Spending Accounts and HSA)

·         Subsidized Public Transportation Program

·         Tuition Assistance Program

·         Onsite Fitness & Wellness Center

·         Flexible Work Arrangements

·         And more

This position requires possession of or the ability to obtain and maintain national security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. Candidates must undergo an enhanced background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is committed to a diverse workforce and to providing equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

The successful candidate must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and receive a booster shot within 30 days of being eligible to do so, unless the Bank grants an exemption based on a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief.  

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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Salary:

$188,350.00

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