Senior Data Architect - Cloud Data Platform & Governance

Indsafri

Centurion

On-site

ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Indsafri is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design and maintain on-prem and cloud-based data architecture, enabling secure, scalable data solutions for analytics and regulatory compliance. You will ensure data assets are governed, structured, and optimized to drive value across customer service, risk, and AI initiatives.

You will translate business needs into architectural solutions, develop enterprise data models, and design cloud-native platforms using AWS.

Qualifications

8+ years' experience as a Data Architect.
3+ years designing and implementing cloud-based data platforms.
Strong data modelling and data lake/lakehouse/warehouse architecture experience.
Finance industry data knowledge (customer, product, transaction, risk, and regulatory data).
Experience with Agile development methodologies.
AWS Certified Data Analytics / Solutions Architect, TOGAF, DAMA, or CDMP certifications.

Responsibilities

Translate business needs into data-driven architectural solutions and provide architectural oversight across business domains.
Develop and maintain enterprise data models (conceptual, logical, physical).
Design cloud-native and hybrid data platforms using AWS, including data lakehouse, data warehouse, or data mesh architectures.
Define architecture for data ingestion, processing, storage, and analytics.
Collaborate with data governance teams on data standards, lineage, and metadata frameworks.
Oversee implementation of data pipelines and APIs for real-time and batch data, following an Infrastructure as Code approach.
Embed data privacy, encryption, access control, and disaster recovery into every design.