Data Architect Senior or Data Architect Lead

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 111,400 - 153,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is seeking a Senior Data Architect to drive architectural decisions for complex product development. This role involves modernizing data assets to cloud-native architectures and ensuring alignment with business objectives.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of enterprise architecture, significant experience with cloud platforms like AWS, and a solid track record in implementing secure, scalable systems. Comprehensive benefits including health, retirement plans, and paid time off are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years or Master’s with 3 years experience for Senior role.
• Proven experience in designing production-grade systems.
• Deep experience in distributed systems and payment technology.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural decisions for product development projects.
• Consult with stakeholders to propose optimal technologies.
• Document architecture decisions for knowledge sharing.

Skills

Design and implementation of complex systems

Enterprise & solutions architecture

Cloud-native applications (AWS)

Data modeling and database technologies

Microservices and API architectures

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland – the fourth district of the Federal Reserve System – works to foster stability, integrity, and efficiency in the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems while representing the views of the concerned region. The bank is guided by values of building trust, owning actions, collaborating intentionally, and embracing change.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect or Data Architect Lead to drive design, technology selection and architectural decisions for complex product development initiatives. The role focuses on modernizing legacy, on‑premises data assets into cloud‑native, scalable architectures while aligning with enterprise standards, security, and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own the selection of design patterns, technologies and solution architectures for product development projects, ensuring alignment with business, technical and enterprise requirements.
• Act as a trusted consultant to business areas, clients and stakeholders to identify gaps, propose solution options and recommend optimal technologies.
• Document architecture decisions and technical standards to support knowledge sharing across the organization.
• Champion complex, strategic enterprise solutions by communicating architecture decisions and technical concepts across all levels, from technical teams to senior management.
• Refine and support a portfolio‑wide data optimization strategy to further align existing assets with a modern, cloud‑native architecture.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams throughout the full development lifecycle, including ideation, development, integration, testing and production support.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends; develop strategic recommendations for architecture investments that reduce cost, increase security, eliminate redundancies and improve system flexibility.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key technology vendors and business partners to stay current on industry developments and enterprise architecture landscape shifts.
• Own the data infrastructure strategy and roadmap; assess current state, identify gaps and drive architectural initiatives and monitoring solutions from planning through implementation.
• Establish, enforce and evolve data governance policies, quality frameworks and compliance practices to ensure data integrity, security, accuracy and regulatory adherence across critical systems.
• Collaborate with data stewards, compliance teams and technical leads to translate governance and regulatory requirements into technical controls, validation rules, access policies and audit mechanisms.
• Assist in establishing a flexible and valuable portfolio‑level data catalog that will drive transparency and promote reusability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of professional work experience or Master’s degree and 3 years of professional work experience (Senior role); Bachelor’s degree and 7 years or Master’s degree and 5 years of related work experience (Lead role).
• Proven track record of designing and implementing complex, production‑grade systems in a collaborative, cross‑functional environment.
• Deep experience in enterprise & solutions architecture, including distributed systems, microservices, API architectures and cloud‑native applications.
• Understanding of financial services technology, payment systems, regulatory requirements and the banking technology landscape.
• Strong background in modern application development, web, mobile and backend architectures with emphasis on scalability, security and performance.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), containerization, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as CDK or Terraform.
• Proficiency in data modeling, integration patterns and database technologies (relational and NoSQL).
• Working knowledge of architecture frameworks (TOGAF, C4, AWS Well‑Architected Framework or similar).

Salary

Base salary range for the Senior role: $111,400 – $153,100 annually. Final offer will consider background, experience, skills, internal equity and market data.

Benefits

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support overall health and financial security. This includes health, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off and other resources that promote well‑being and work‑life balance.

Legal and Employment Information

The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law. We value diversity and inclusion and make reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. All applicants may be required to undergo a background check and a controlled‑substance test, including for marijuana, as part of the hiring process. All employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules regarding ownership of financial interests in depository institutions. For more information on accommodation or ethics policies, please contact the appropriate department.