Strategic Enterprise Data Architect

KEMBA Financial Credit Union; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

KEMBA Financial Credit Union is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to expand data usage as a strategic enabler of corporate goals. You will design, develop, and implement enterprise data models across conceptual, logical, and business layers, promoting data management best practices.

The role requires leadership to drive data architecture standards, collaborate with stakeholders, and ensure compliance while supporting major ERP/CRM deployments and data governance initiatives.

Qualifications

• College diploma or university degree in computer science, information systems, or computer engineering.
• Certifications in applicable data engineering and analytical tools.
• 5 years work experience as a data or information architect.
• Hands-on experience with data architecting, data mining, large-scale data modeling, and business requirements gathering/analysis.
• Direct experience in implementing enterprise data management processes, procedures, and decision support.
• Strong understanding of relational data structures, theories, principles, and practices.
• Strong familiarity with metadata management and associated processes.
• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise repository tools, data modeling tools, data mapping tools, and data profiling tools.
• Demonstrated expertise with repository creation, and data and information system life cycle methodologies.
• Experience with business requirements analysis, entity relationship planning, database design, reporting structures, and so on.

Responsibilities

• Develops long-term strategic goals for data architecture vision and standards.
• Creates short-term tactical solutions and a data management roadmap.
• Establishes processes for metadata governance and accuracy.
• Monitors data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvements.
• Plans data capacity, lifecycle, usage, and feasibility studies.
• Creates strategies for data security, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Ensures compliance with data regulations and policies.
• Supports enterprise system rollouts (ERP, SCM, CRM, SAP, PeopleSoft).
• Liaises with vendors to select products meeting goals.
• Oversees data governance frameworks and metadata migration.
• Develops data management methodologies and standards.
• Selects tools and systems to support data technology goals.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Data mining

Requirements analysis

Communication skills

Project leadership

Data governance

Team collaboration

Education

College diploma or university degree in CS/IS/CE

Certifications in data engineering/analytical tools

Tools

Data modeling tools

Data mapping tools

Data profiling tools

Repository tools

Web services (SOAP, XML, UDDI, WSDL)

Job description

KEMBA Financial Credit Union is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to expand data usage as a strategic enabler of corporate goals. You will design, develop, and implement enterprise data models across conceptual, logical, and business layers, promoting data management best practices.

The role requires leadership to drive data architecture standards, collaborate with stakeholders, and ensure compliance while supporting major ERP/CRM deployments and data governance initiatives.