Data Architect National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah

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.

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