Lead Data Architect

Fulton Financial; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 128,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity RSUs

Incentive plan

Job summary

Fulton Bank is seeking an experienced Lead Data Architect to drive the data strategy across our enterprise data warehouse, BI, and MDM initiatives. The role focuses on defining standards, mentoring the Data Architecture team, and ensuring data quality and governance for diverse business units.

You will shape logical and physical data models, perform source-to-target mappings, and collaborate with Governance and IT to maintain metadata and data dictionaries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in computer science, information systems, or related field.
• Master's degree preferred for advanced roles.
• Minimum 7+ years leading data architecture, big data, or data warehouse projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data Architects on broad projects and mentor team members.
• Define corporate data architecture including data integration, warehouse, BI architecture and data standards.
• Design and manage RDM/MDM programs with match rules, data cleansing and golden records.
• Establish metadata management policies; create data dictionaries and enforce data quality.
• Provide guidance across SDLC with emphasis on governance and documentation.

Skills

Data modeling

Data architecture

MDM

Metadata management

Team leadership

Governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

SQL

ETL tools

Job description

Value Proposition

Our values define us and our culture inspires us to change lives for the better. Our employees are the heart and soul of our company, and every success we experience begins with them. Together we are committed to making a positive impact in our local communities. We champion a culture of continuous learning, work-life integration, and inclusion. We promote a digitally enabled work environment to continuously enhance the experience of our employees and customers.

Overview

This is a full-time career opportunity that can be remote. Must have the ability for occasional travel to our headquarters location in Lancaster, PA.

Responsible for providing data modeling and source to target mapping for database development projects, design and user support for business intelligence implementation, design and ownership of the corporate data architecture and related standards, design and maintenance of reference and master data management initiatives, establishment of meta data management policies and procedures, including maintenance of data warehouse and source application data dictionaries, and development and enforcement of data management standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data Architects work on a broad range of projects as well as provide leadership within the project for other members of a project team.
• Defines the corporate data architecture and related standards that includes data integration architecture, data warehouse and business intelligence architecture, taxonomies and namespaces, and data modeling tools and standards.
• Working with the Data Governance team, assist with designing and managing reference data and master data programs. Design and manage implementation of RDM and MDM solutions. Define and maintain match rules, data cleansing rules, hierarchies and affiliations, and Golden records. Manage changes to reference and master data by identifying sources and contributors and establishing processes for managed change.
• Establishing metadata management policies and procedures. Develop, maintain and enforce standards. Implement and maintain metadata tools. Manage metadata repositories. Create and manage widely accessible data dictionaries. Enforce policies and processes needed to improve and maintain the quality and ownership of data.
• Provide regular advice, direction and support to team members and other Bank resources with hands on demonstrations of proper techniques and disciplines across all functions. Deliver these functions with leading industry practices with a thorough understanding of the full systems development lifecycle. Act as a role model for documentation, communication, scripting and adherence to established Information Technology governance standards and procedures.
• Providing detailed data modeling and design for all data oriented development projects, either as an individual contributor or through mentoring less senior Data Architects. These efforts will include the design of logical and physical data models and documentation. Conduct source to target analysis and mapping and maintain documentation. Create and update data dictionary. Participate in acceptance testing as required.

Education

Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: Computer Science, Computer Information Science. (Required)

Master's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: Computer Science, Computer Information Science. (Preferred)

Experience

7 or more years Lead Data Architect, Big Data Solution Architect, Sr. Big Data Architect. (Required)

Other Duties as Assigned by Manager

This role may perform other job duties as assigned by the manager. Each employee of the Organization, regardless of position, is accountable for reading, understanding and acting on the contents of all Company-assigned and/or job related Compliance Programs, regulations and policies and procedures, as well as ensure that all Compliance Training assignments are completed by established due dates. This includes but is not limited to, understanding and identifying compliance risks impacting their department(s), ensuring compliance with applicable laws or regulations, and escalating compliance risks to the appropriate level of management.

Pay Transparency

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges on all job postings regardless of state. We set standard salary ranges for our roles based on the position, function, and responsibilities, as benchmarked against similarly sized companies in our industry. Specific compensation offered will be determined based on a combination of factors including the candidate’s knowledge, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. The salary range may vary based on geographic location.

The salary range for this position is $127,800.00 - $213,000.00 annually.

Additional Compensation Components

This job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units. This job is eligible to participate in a short-term incentive compensation plan subject to individual and company performance.

Benefits

Additionally, as part of our Total Rewards program, Fulton Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package to those who qualify. This includes medical plans with prescription drug coverage; flexible spending account or health savings account depending on the medical plan chosen; dental and vision insurance; life insurance; 401(k) program with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan; paid time off programs including holiday pay and paid volunteer time; disability insurance coverage and maternity and parental leave; adoption assistance; educational assistance and a robust wellness program with financial incentives. To learn more about your potential eligibility for these programs, please visit Benefits & Wellness | Fulton Bank.

EEO Statement

Fulton Bank (“Fulton”) is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified persons. Fulton will recruit, hire, train and promote persons in the job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, age, genetic information, marital status, disability, covered veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Sponsorship Statement

As a condition of employment, individuals must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for a work visa by Fulton Bank currently or in the future.