Investments Data Architect

Company Description

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies 

Job Description

• Permanent opportunity with one of Australia's leading superannuation funds
• Great flexibility in a hybrid environment.
• LinkedIn Top 5 Company to develop your career.

About Us

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $75 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

About the Job

The Investments Data Architect is responsible for developing and leading the implementation of a robust, scalable, and efficient data architecture to support investment activities at Rest. This role involves designing advanced data solutions that align with our business strategy, optimising data flows, and shaping and maintaining our analytics capabilities to drive superior investment performance.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Create investment data architecture, option analysis, solution design, roadmap, data integration blueprint/plan, analytics and reporting design artefacts.
• Gather design requirements; plan, coordinate and participate in workshops, solution refinement, development activities, and support the testing of data & analytics work streams.
• Design solutions that ensure data integrity, consistency, completeness, and security. This will include solutions for the Investment data warehouse, whole of fund master data, data analytics platform as well as data integration solutions.
• Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models, ensuring data consistency, quality, and availability.
• Assess and evaluate Investment data management applications and platforms from third party providers.
• Provide Data / DevOps Engineering guidance and support on work practices, development lifecycle and adherence to solution designs and patterns.
• Define and maintain data / information architecture assets and roadmaps based on changes in business scenarios, environment, technology architecture and regulation.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including domain architects, data engineers, data analysts, business analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Build relationships across all levels of the organisation, engage with various stakeholders to analyse, model, and make recommendations on new and changed requirements.

Qualifications

About You:

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, information systems, or a related field.
• Certifications demonstrating expertise in data architecture or data modelling would be a benefit.

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• At least 5 years’ experience as a Data architect/modeler or similar role in the investments and/or financial services industry.
• Experience in architecting investments Enterprise Data Management/EDM, Master Data Management/MDM and market data rationalisation and optimisation within Investments data domains.
• Experience in data modelling and/or architecture of portfolio and analytics data: fund/holdings structure, risk exposures, returns, etc.
• Demonstrable Architecture & Implementation experience across multiple projects
• Proficient in data modelling tools and techniques, including ER modelling, dimensional modelling, and data normalisation.
• Experience working with and designing scalable cloud-based data solutions using Snowflake and either AWS, Google or Azure.
• Good working knowledge of data cleansing, data profiling, data governance as well as data science and analytics practices.
• Experience with designing and implementing CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Familiarity with data-as-a-service pattern for investment data, data cataloguing, data lineage including cloud-based data distributions API/HAPI, Microservices and ELT/ETLs.
• An appreciation of the principles surrounding DataOps & CI\CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub, AWS native and Snowflake integrations, etc.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and engagement skills from C-suite to Data Analyst positions.
• Track record of developing solutions that are maintainable and secure.
• Experience working with BAs to ensure high quality of business and technical requirements.
• Good knowledge of agile software/product delivery and lean working practices.
• Familiarity with IBOR/ABOR and PBOR datasets is a nice to have.

Additional Information

Benefits

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Hybrid working 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops) 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2023. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier