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At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all™. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products.
We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our *HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Solutions Data Architect to join our Data and Analytics team. This role plays a pivotal part in enabling and maturing our data capabilities and helping transform our company into a data-driven organization.
As a Solutions Data Architect, you take ownership of defining and supporting the implementation of business solutions on a modern data platform. You will work directly with the Data Engineering teams to define standards, create data models and mappings, promote methodologies and standards, and ensure architecture and business alignment.
What You Will Do:
- Data Solution Architect Effectiveness
- Drive the architectural effectiveness of data-related business initiatives within the organization.
- Maintain and enhance the current state data architecture while planning future state architecture aligned with product objectives.
- Develop technology roadmaps to ensure a smooth transition from current to future state.
- Design data solutions addressing specific business capabilities and non-functional requirements.
- Create solutions to advance and optimize the enterprise data infrastructure.
- Assess technology, market trends and industry developments to identify potential impacts.
- Advocate for data architecture process and results to business leaders and enterprise information technology.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring best practices and standards.
- Alignment with Strategy and Roadmaps
- Collaborate with senior business and technology leaders, including product management, business, engineering, and operations.
- Ensure alignment between business and technology strategies, facilitating seamless communication across multiple organizational levels.
- Develop a data architecture roadmap based on IT strategies and business requirements.
- Technical Strategy and Standards
- Establish technical strategies, standards, and guidelines in collaboration with other architects.
- Create logical architecture models to support large, complex, cross-capability area initiatives.
What You Will Need:
- 12+ years of varied experience implementing all aspects of Data Management - Data / Big Data, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Governance, Data Integration / ETL, Metadata Management and Data Security.
- 10+ years of enterprise experience working with data architecture efforts with subject matter authorities from varying technology and business disciplines
- 5+ years of experience strategizing and implementing end-to-end Data Warehouses with strong SQL knowledge and leveraging technologies such as SSIS, Power BI, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, and Talend
- At least 4+ years in financial industry. Compatible domain experience will be considered.
- With 2+ years leading distributed teams and working in cloud data environments.
- Proven success in planning, influencing, and leading initiatives across engineering and business organizations.
- Prior experience migrating from on premises platforms to cloud.
- Strong SQL knowledge, performance optimization, data catalog, data lineage, critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective communication.
- Bachelor’s degree required; master’s preferred.
The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.
Salary range: $99,501.91 – $183,764.31
The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.
This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity. Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.
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Don’t have everything listed under qualifications? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single condition. At Pathward, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive culture of belonging, so if you’re excited about this role but your experiences don’t match exactly to everything in the posting we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other Pathward roles.
Who we are:
Our commitment to inclusion is woven into our DNA. We believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, national origin, age (age 40 and over), disability, genetic information, marital status, hair texture or hairstyle, ancestry, service in the uniformed services, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.
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