Inter-American Development Bank
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About this position:
We are looking for an experienced professional to work on the ITE/IPP Policy and Planning Division as a Data Architect with proficiency in designing, architecting, and implementing solutions for SaaS (Software as a Service), and PaaS (Platform as a Services) environment, and advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for secure, scalable, and reliable Cloud-native solutions.
What you’ll do:
You will report to the Enterprise Architecture Team Leader in the Information Technology Policy & Planning Division. Following are the most important activities you will be doing to move forward the IT Project and Portfolio Management program towards its goals:
- Develop, document, and maintain architectural artifacts, including standards, policies, guidelines, models, diagrams, charts, and roadmaps, specifically for a hybrid cloud environment. Utilize a variety of platforms and technologies as guided by division technical leads.
- Designing and implementing database solutions that align with business needs, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
- Creating and maintaining data models to represent the structure, relationships, and flow of data within the organization.
- Designing and developing ETL processes to extract data from various sources, transform it as needed, and load it into target systems.
- Integrating data from different sources to ensure consistency and accuracy across the organization.
- Actively participate in the assessment, planning, and design phases of projects, ensuring alignment with IT standards, architecture practices, and the bank’s digital strategy in support of its mission.
- Assess the technical feasibility of proposed solutions, ensuring their compatibility with the bank’s IT architecture.
- Regularly update and enforce architectural standards and guidelines at the bank.
- Implementing and enforcing data governance policies and standards to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.
- Establishing practices for capturing and managing metadata to provide a comprehensive understanding of the data landscape.
- Working closely with software development teams to integrate data solutions into applications and systems.
- Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in data solutions, processes, and architectures.
- Planning and executing data migration projects when transitioning from one system to another.
- Monitoring and optimizing the performance of databases and data processes to ensure efficient data retrieval and processing.
- Creating and maintaining documentation for data architectures, processes, and solutions.
- Work with product teams to ensure architectural standards are met, and aid in developing target architectures that align with business objectives, facilitating necessary transitions.
- Work within a cloud-native environment leveraging a diverse range of other technologies.
- Stay updated with emerging IT trends, collaborate to identify technical opportunities, and participate in discussions to enhance the quality of enterprise IT solutions.
- In line with IDBG’s Digital Transformation objectives, occasionally collaborate to adapt current Product Review Accreditation (PRAC) and Demand processes for projects using Agile methodology.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent the equivalent combination of education and experience in any of the following fields: Computer Sciences, Information Technology, or related area.
- successful candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate skills with a minimum of two years in the following areas:
- Cloud: MS Azure (AWS is a plus). Should demonstrate relevant work experience and skills designing and maintaining cloud solutions with IaaS or PaaS. With good understanding of the network, security, and cost implications.
- professional experience in data architecture, database design, and data management.
- Proficiency in data modeling tools and techniques, including conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling.
- Extensive experience with various database management systems (DBMS) such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or NoSQL databases.
- Hands-on experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes and tools for data integration.
- Knowledge of data governance principles and experience implementing data governance frameworks to ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
- Experience implementing data security measures, including encryption, access controls, and auditing, to protect sensitive information.
- Strong technical skills in programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python) and a solid understanding of data warehousing concepts.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure Cloud) and experience implementing solutions in cloud environments.
- Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required.
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