DATABASE ARCHITECT

Borr Drilling; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector seeks a skilled Data Architect. The role involves analyzing data requirements, designing data models, and ensuring data compliance. This position requires a Bachelor’s degree and 7–10 years of relevant experience. Join a dynamic team focusing on innovative data solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• 7–10 years of experience in data architecture or management.
• Deep expertise in data modelling, especially for banking.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data requirements.
• Design logical and physical data models for banking and compliance.
• Implement data marts and ensure compliance with governance.

Skills

Data Modelling

SQL

Data Governance

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science

Tools

Erwin

PowerDesigner

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to gather and analyze data requirements related to banking products, transactions, customers, and reporting.
• Design and maintain logical and physical data models for core banking, risk management, compliance, and financial reporting.
• Translate complex business use cases into normalized and de-normalized data structures optimized for both operational and analytical workloads.
• Implement and evolve data marts, data warehouses, and data integration layers aligned with the client’s data architecture.
• Work with development teams to deploy physical data models and optimize performance for large financial datasets.
• Ensure all data models comply with data governance, quality, and metadata management standards.
• Produce data documentation, including data dictionaries and lineage diagrams, for business, audit, and regulatory use.
• Support initiatives related to data lineage, metadata management, and data quality to enhance data trust and transparency.
• Provide business support with the ability to identify and highlight IT issues when necessary.
• Create and maintain reports and communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in data architecture, data modelling, or data management within the banking or financial services industry.
• Deep expertise in logical and physical data modelling, particularly for core banking, risk, compliance, and analytics use cases.
• Proficient in data modelling tools such as Erwin, PowerDesigner, or similar.
• Advanced SQL skills with experience handling large, complex financial datasets.
• Solid understanding of relational and dimensional modelling, data warehousing, and integration techniques.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks like DAMA-DMBOK.
• Intermediate understanding of APAC regulatory compliance.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.
• Experience with data management platforms such as Collibra (non-development role) is a plus.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills to effectively engage with stakeholders and clients.