Data Architect

About Security Bank We are the Philippines’ largest independent bank, having won countless awards over the years including the most prestigious industry award in both 2015 and 2016—the Bank of the Year – Philippines by The Banker . We’re changing how people bank. From the moment customers enter our branches to their experience online, we make them feel valued and empowered. Now, with more than 300 branches spanning the country, BetterBanking has become the gold standard in improving the banking lives of millions of Filipinos. But we’re far from done. In our constant pursuit of excellence and improvement, we create teams that support our business and each other. The Role The Database Architect will be an integral member of the Architecture Team and will be responsible for the design and implementation of the enterprise-wide data strategy, ensuring the strategy supports the current and future business needs. The role will involve collaborating with Business and IT stakeholders at all levels to ensure the enterprise data strategy and associated implementation is adding value to the business. How you'll contribute

• Develop and evolve the enterprise-wide data strategy to support delivery of corporate objectives
• Be a key stakeholder and advisor in all new strategic data initiatives and ensure alignment to the enterprise-wide data strategy
• Build a framework of principles to ensure data integrity across the business (including but not limited to ERP, CRM, BI, Data warehouse, external interfaces etc.)
• Ensure that the Data Architecture strategy and roadmap is aligned to the business and technology strategies.
• Build and maintain appropriate Enterprise Architecture artefacts including entity relationship Models, Data dictionary, taxonomy to aid data traceability
• Provide technical oversight to solution delivery in creating business driven solutions adhering to the enterprise architecture and data governance standards
• Be an advocate of data security principles and ensure appropriate security practices are embedded in any data strategy
• Be an active contributor to how SBF evolves Data Governance practices and influence the adoption of data standards
• Develop key performance measures for data integration and quality
• Support third party data suppliers in developing specifications that are congruent with the Enterprise data architecture

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, or any related courses
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience in IT Hardware/Software, IT-Network/System/Database Admin, IT-Security, IT-Cloud Technology
• Required Certification in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), TOGAF, or similar
• Proven experience in architecting and implementing Business Intelligence and Data warehouse platforms, data integration and OLTP database solutions.
• Possess in-depth knowledge of and able to consult on various technologies
• Strong knowledge of industry best practices around data architecture in both cloud-based and on prem solutions.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills are essential, enabling easy interpretation and analysis of large volumes of data.
• A comprehensive understanding of the principles of and best practices behind data engineering, and the supporting technologies such as RDBMS, NoSQL, Cache & In-memory stores.
• Experience of architecting data solution across hybrid (cloud, on premise) data platforms.
• A comprehensive understanding of data warehousing and data transformation (extract, transform and load) processes and the supporting technologies such as Amazon Glue,
• EMR, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, other analytics products
• Experience implementing data solutions
• Excellent problem solving and data modelling skills (logical, physical, sematic and integration models) including normalization, OLAP / OLTP principles and entity relationship analysis
• Experience of mapping key Enterprise data entities to business capabilities and applications
• A strong knowledge of horizontal data lineage from source to output
• Excellent communication and presentational skills, confident and methodical approach, and able to work within a team environment