Executive Director, Data Architecture & Strategy

PowerToFly; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) is seeking a Data Architect to shape enterprise data architecture across public and private markets, with a focus on governance, scalability, and reusable data products.

The role collaborates with data engineering, analytics, and AI teams to define target-state architectures, drive multi-year roadmaps, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while enabling advanced analytics and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or regulated industry.
• Experience leading large-scale data migrations and platform transformations.
• Familiarity with data mesh, data products, and federated governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture, including data models and standards.
• Develop target-state architectures and roadmaps for operational, analytical, and AI data platforms.
• Establish data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, and distribution patterns.
• Ensure architectures support cloud, lakehouse, warehouse, streaming, and API use cases.
• Embed governance, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements into designs.
• Lead architecture reviews and guidance across major data initiatives.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

SQL / data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

Python

Job description

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) is seeking a Data Architect to shape enterprise data architecture across public and private markets, with a focus on governance, scalability, and reusable data products.

The role collaborates with data engineering, analytics, and AI teams to define target-state architectures, drive multi-year roadmaps, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while enabling advanced analytics and AI initiatives.