Job Description
Job Summary: North is a dynamic and innovative technology company dedicated to reshaping the landscape of financial risk and compliance management. We seek a Data Architect with focus on building scalable data solutions to join our talented team at the Fraud & Risk Management Research & Development Centre of Excellence in Limerick. Position Overview: As a Data Architect, you will play a critical role in defining the data architecture and governance towards building and maintaining our cutting-edge platform, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility while collaborating with development teams, product managers and stakeholders. This platform will leverage the power of artificial intelligence to address the complex challenges of fraud detection, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance in the financial industry. This position will be responsible for how we manage data across the platform, commencing from data model definition through to actively working alongside engineers on implementation. What youll do: Provide technical leadership to establish data architecture standards, principles and best practices in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including data science and product departments. Leading conversations and workshops with stakeholders to understand requirements and identify solutions and opportunities. Define data structures, mappings and flows to enable performant data processing and analysis. Establish and implement data strategy and governance process, ensuring data quality, consistency, accessibility and compliance with regulatory requirements. Research and evaluate data technologies and tools to support our business goals, including hands-on technical evaluation and PoCs. Design and implement ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) flows in a cloud-native environment. Design and implement data storage solutions, including caching, partitioning, and indexing to improve performance. Produce and contribute to high-quality documentation. What we need from you: 5+ years of experience in data architecture, modelling and data management solutions. Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline or relevant experience. Experience working in the financial services, financial technology and risk management industry. Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable to present technical information to a non-technical audience. In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB, Neo4J, etc). Knowledge of data storage and analytics solutions (e.g., Snowflake, DataBricks). Knowledge of data visualisation tools (e.g., Sigma, Tableau, Looker, PowerBI). Experience designing cloud-based data platforms and streaming flows (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure). Experience implementing security measures and ensuring compliance with data privacy and security regulations. Experience with AI and MLOps architecture approaches, ensuring seamless integration and performance. Experience with streaming data platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis). Familiarity with Vector and Graph database architecture. Additional information: This is a hybrid role - as part of our hybrid work model, employees are expected to be onsite at our Limerick City office on in-office days. Disclaimer: The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. North reserves the right to alter this description at any time. North practices the concept of equal employment opportunity with respect to hiring, promotions, transfers, pay, discipline, fringe benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. No individual will be discriminated against, and no employment decisions will be made, on the basis of an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, protected disability, marital status, familial status, veteran status, height, weight or citizenship. Please view our Pre-Hire Data Privacy Information by clicking the 'view profile' button at the top of the advert Benefits: Competitive benefits package