Lead Data Architect

Job Description and required skills:

Lead Data Architect will lead the overall effort on future state architecture roadmap, business alignment, and overall data strategy and end to end data lifecycle including data quality, data governance, data modeling, etc.

12 to 15 years of overall IT experience with minimum 10 years in data and analytics space

5+ years of experience in Data Advisory, Data Strategy, ADF and defining architecture roadmap (at least 2 full implementation experience from strategizing the architecture to roll-out)

Solid experience in Azure / other public clouds (Azure prefered) and cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake - involving various data services, cost / performance trade-offs, architecture patterns / choices, etc. 

Experience involving Azure Fabric strongly required.

Effective communicator with ability to communicate complex techno-functional aspects to various stakeholders including business stakeholders

Prior experience in Mortgage/banking industry require.