RAKBANK
National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah (RAKBank) has an empty position of Data Architect role in its Dubai branch. This vacancy was announced by the bank on 7 December 2023. Candidates with requisite knowledge and experience to submit their applications ASAP.
Duties of Data Architect
- Create consolidated data model in a sustainable, scalable manner and design various ETL processes defining data flows across data stores/systems.
- Defining the data architecture framework, standards and principles including modeling, metadata and security.
- Develop and evolve the enterprise-wide data strategy to support the delivery of organizational objectives.
- Building Data solution aligned with Target Data Architecture and implementation data architecture principles and standards within the bank.
- Architecting Customer Event Streaming, data contextualization and real-time analytics platform.
- Be a key stakeholder and advisor in all the new strategic data initiatives and ensure alignment to the enterprise-wide data strategy.
- Build a framework of principles to ensure data quality, integrity across the business (including but not limited to core, payments, Digital Banking, Customer 360, BI, Data warehouse, external interfaces, etc.)
- Ensure that the Data Architecture strategy and roadmap are aligned to the business and technology strategies.
- Exploring data sources to understand whether they can add value to products.
- Design platform that will improve data quality, metadata management, data governance and ensure driven by data principles.
- Defining best practices and patterns for data ingestion and transformation.
- Working with the data engineers to ingest, transform, and provision new data and contribute data architecture for digital analytics, real-time event sourcing, data contextualization and running AI models.
Requirements of Data Architect
The requirements for the role of Data Architect are as under:
- Bachelor’s degree in the relevant field.
- At least 10-12 years of experience as Data Architect.
- Cloud Architects certification from public cloud providers like AWS, Azure etc.
- TOGAF certification.
- Certification on Virtualization and related technology.
- Experience in Big data platforms and distributed computing (e.g. Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Spark, NOSQL systems, Hive).
- Experience in cloud data platforms and building architecture that leverages the cloud.
- Experience in Data Quality Assessment (profiling, anomaly detection) and data documentation(schema, dictionaries)
- Experience in data architecture, data warehousing and modelling techniques (relational, ETL/ELT, and OLTP) and consider performance alternatives.
- Technical expertise regarding data models and warehouse design.
What’s In It For You
- Pay for performance culture (Competitive and performance linked compensation).
- Medical care plan for family and you.
- Comprehensive Life insurance plan.
- Diverse workforce and inclusive culture.
- Career development and growth opportunities by design.
- Work with the best minds in the field.
- Get opportunities to bring your whole-self to the organization and perform to your best.