Data Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Assume responsibility for the current data architecture and, when necessary, reverse-engineer systems.

• Evaluate data landscapes that encompass core banking, payments, CRM, customer applications, and related services.

• Identify and map data sources, integrations, transformations, dependencies, and points of data consumption.

• Convert business and regulatory needs into scalable data architectures and technical solutions.

• Create conceptual, logical, and physical data models, along with data flows and transformation rules.

• Develop comprehensive source-to-target mappings, data contracts, interface specifications, and data quality requirements.

• Recognize architectural gaps, technical debt, and risks, proposing appropriate remediation strategies.

• Assist with data requirements pertaining to KYC, AML, transaction reporting, and other regulatory processes.

• Play a role in establishing data governance, security, lineage, ownership, and data quality standards.

• Review implementations and convey technical decisions, dependencies, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Engage in an active greenfield UK banking platform project built on Thought Machine Vault, utilizing Snowflake as the analytical data platform.

• Collaborate closely with architects, engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Data Architect, Solution Architect, or Lead Data Engineer, with practical expertise in data architecture.

• Proficient hands-on experience with Snowflake, SQL, relational databases, and data modeling.

• Familiarity with data warehouses/lakes and ETL/ELT processes.

• Experience in reverse-engineering existing systems that have limited documentation.

• Capability to translate business requirements into technical specifications that are ready for implementation.

• Strong grasp of data integrations, pipelines, transformation patterns, and analytical data platforms.

• Ability to work autonomously, take charge, and organize an already-running program.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Upper-Intermediate (B2) English proficiency or higher.

• Willingness to travel for business purposes to Poland and the UK as required.

• Nice-to-have: experience in banking, fintech, payments, or other financial services.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with UK banking and regulatory standards such as FCA/PRA, KYC, or AML.

• Nice-to-have: experience with Thought Machine Vault, ClearBank, or similar core banking/BaaS platforms.

• Nice-to-have: experience with AWS, dbt, Airflow, or similar data transformation/orchestration technologies.

• Nice-to-have: knowledge of data governance, lineage, cataloguing, event-driven architectures, APIs, streaming platforms, and CI/CD practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunities in recruitment, career advancement, and leadership roles.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Support from the talent team, along with information about what Avenga offers and how it assists its employees.

• Opportunities for career development.