Data Architect

Technical Skills

• Data Modeling: Proficiency in designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models is essential.
• Database Expertise: A strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases, including SQL development and database administration, is crucial.
• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence: Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, data ETL (extract, transform, load) processes, and business intelligence tools is necessary.
• Big Data Technologies: Familiarity with big data technologies like Hadoop and Spark is increasingly important.
• Cloud Technologies: As cloud adoption grows, experience with cloud-based data platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP is becoming valuable.
• Must have Payments and Lending Experience.

Additional Skills

• Communication and Collaboration: Data architects need to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaboration with stakeholders across the organization is essential.
• Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: The ability to analyze complex data problems and design effective solutions is key.
• Business Acumen: Understanding the business needs and how data architecture can support them is crucial.

Job Responsibilities

• Understanding Payment Systems: possess a thorough understanding of various payment systems, including credit cards, debit cards, ACH transfers, and digital wallets. This knowledge helps them design data infrastructure that can handle different transaction types and formats.
• Regulatory Compliance: The payments industry is heavily regulated. Data architects with payments experience ensure their data architecture adheres to relevant regulations, such as PCI DSS and KYC/AML.
• Fraud Detection and Prevention: They design data pipelines and models to identify and prevent fraudulent transactions. This involves analyzing historical data to identify patterns and develop algorithms for real-time fraud detection.
• Risk Management: Payments data is crucial for risk management. Data architects design systems that allow for data analysis to assess financial risk and make informed decisions.
• Designing Data Infrastructure: This includes designing data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and data pipelines specific to payments data. They ensure efficient storage, retrieval, and analysis of vast amounts of transaction information.
• Data Modeling: They design conceptual, logical, and physical data models that accurately represent complex financial data structures, considering factors like customer information, transaction details, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance.
• Data Governance and Security: Data architects implement robust security measures to protect sensitive financial data. They also establish data governance policies to ensure data quality, consistency, and accessibility.
• Collaboration: They collaborate with various stakeholders, including business analysts, data engineers, and data scientists, to understand data needs and translate them into technical solutions.

What We Offer

Exciting Projects: With clients across all industries and sectors, we offer an opportunity to work on market-defining products using the latest technologies.

Collaborative Environment: You can expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!

Work-Life Balance: GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible work schedules.

Professional Development: We develop paths suited to your individual talents through international knowledge exchanges and professional certification opportunities.

Excellent Benefits: We provide our employees with private medical care, sports facilities cards, group life insurance, travel insurance, relocation package, food subsidies and cultural activities.

Fun Perks: We want you to feel comfortable in your work, which is why we create good working environment with relax zones, host social and teambuilding activities and stock our kitchen with delicious teas and coffees!

About GlobalLogic GlobalLogic is a leader in digital engineering. We help brands across the globe design and build innovative products, platforms, and digital experiences for the modern world. By integrating experience design, complex engineering, and data expertise we help our clients imagine what s possible, and accelerate their transition into tomorrow s digital businesses. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, GlobalLogic operates design studios and engineering centers around the world, extending our deep expertise to customers in the automotive, communications, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, semiconductor, and technology industries. GlobalLogic is a Hitachi Group Company operating under Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) which contributes to a sustainable society with a higher quality of life by driving innovation through data and technology as the Social Innovation Business.