Senior Solution Architect, Data - VP

Who we are looking for

As Senior Solution Architect for Data, you will play a crucial role in enabling the bank to achieve its goals through strategic investments in technology solutions. Leveraging your experience in AWS or Azure and Data solutions, you will lead technical discussions and design solutions with project teams, guiding them to extract maximum value from our technology investments and identifying solutions to overcome challenges hindering the success of their data and AI projects. We are looking for a Data Solution Architect with expertise in designing and implementing data solutions on our new multi-cloud platform including AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Starburst, Oracle, and Exadata. This role is critical to the development of our enterprise data strategy that supports building of AI driven Data Fabric for the organization. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud-based data architectures, analytics, and big data solutions

What you will be responsible for

As Senior Solution Architect, Data you will:

• Creates, evaluate, and implement plans and design proposals for high impact IT solutions and their use involving leading edge technologies and methods considering key factors such as their long-term effectiveness (service delivery and cost), practicality, technical limitations, and criticality.
• Keep abreast with technology trends (innovative and disruptive) affecting the bank
• Understand data pipelines to promote efficient enterprise data flow
• Understand data cleansing and data mining strategies to allow ML and AI solutions
• Lead or contribute to designs applied to all aspects of business systems and/or infrastructure prototypes and eventual implementation.
• Perform work of high complexity and derive logical processes based on technical platforms.
• Engage in performance/integration testing, problem analysis, business, and technical analysis.
• Possess broad and deep skills across disciplines, serving as a mentor to others.
• Work with business SMEs, enterprise architects and developers to aid in the design and implementation of relational and dimensional data models.
• Develop and maintain best practices and standards related to data integration between systems and data within systems.
• Consult on design and implementation of data delivery tools and master data solutions
• Collaborate with the broader architecture community to ensure that their solutions align with target architectures and technology roadmaps
• Preparation and presentation of project documentation for the application team partners
• Participate in code reviews to ensure new code conforms to highest standards
• Supervise the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions
• Monitor performance and advise necessary infrastructure changes
• Work with IT security teams to ensure that the data solutions comply with data privacy and security policies and regulations.
• Maintain a holistic view of data and information strategy, architecture, governance, processes, and flows.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Demonstrable experience as an architect for a large organization in major software domains
• Experience with AWS (RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB), SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL), Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst, and ingestion transform tools
• Experience with real-time streaming and AI/ML data pipelines and modeling
• Experience serving as architect for applications on cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience in building Data lake/Data lakehouse/Data Mesh/Data Fabric architecture
• Strong leadership, problem solving, communication, and influencing skills
• Comfortable working both individually and as part of a highly collaborative team
• Experience with Compliance and Data governance (GDPR, SOX, etc.)
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills (verbal/presentation/written)
• Ability to facilitate dynamic meetings and discussions
• Strong Business Acumen, can express and model the purpose of data in business context
• Ability to mentor and guide data engineers

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or beyond and 10 years or more work experience in related roles
• Proven experience of 5+ years as a Data Solution Architect or similar role, with a strong background in software development and architecture. 15+ years of total IT experience.
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and highly available enterprise solutions.
• Proficiency in architectural modeling tools and techniques (e.g., UML).
• In-depth knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Working experience on data technologies like Snowflake, DataBricks, Airflow, Kafka, Apache Airflow, Teradata, Hadoop, spark, Amazon redshift, etc., and traditional SQL databases Oracle, Exadata, SQL Server, etc.
• Proficient in SQL and familiar with programming languages such as Python or Java.
• Knowledge of data modeling, data governance, and data integration techniques.
• Knowledge of enterprise BI and analytics
• Understanding of industry-vertical application
• Knowledge of underlying infrastructure for Big Data Solutions
• Expertise in large distributed Big Data Application deployment
• Experience in designing, building, and operating cloud services
• Proficient with planning tools MS Project, Excel, PPT

Are you the right candidate? Yes!

We truly believe in the power that comes from the diverse backgrounds and experiences our employees bring with them. Although each vacancy details what we are looking for, we don’t necessarily need you to fulfil all of them when applying. If you like change and innovation, seek to see the bigger picture, make data driven decisions and are a good team player, you could be a great fit.

Why this role is important to us

Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We’re driving the company’s digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company.

Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Salary Range:

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

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