Enterprise Data Architect

Bonus Type

Summary

Are you passionate about data and believe it fuels an organization? We have an exciting opportunity awaiting someone like you!

Job Description

The Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for creating, modernizing, and managing the enterprise data architecture for structured and unstructured data in an innovative, collaborative fashion.  Working with all lines of business across the enterprise, the Architect designs strategic initiatives to ensure adherence to data standards and data management best practices. As a subject matter expert, the Enterprise Data Architect mentors more junior data architects, data solutions engineers, as well as other business and technical SMEs.

Team Culture

Collaboration is the key to success with this fast-paced team. While each person holds an area of expertise, we all join in to support the customer. Through weekly meetings, group huddles, and 1 on 1 peer training, everyone is given the opportunity to brainstorm, ask questions, and find solutions. We support and lift one another up to achieve more together.

How You'll Spend Your Time

•    You will define strategies for high complexity challenges to reduce data redundancy, improve data availability, and accessibility by partnering with the technical teams. 

•    You will develop the overall vision and underlying framework for BOKF’s data capabilities and activities.

•    You will collaborate with Enterprise Data Governance to define data accuracy meets organizational quality and integrity standards.

•    You will decompose complex problems to modules, related tasks, and construct tactical solutions with prescribed tools that can be adopted across the enterprise and introduces new tools or features to the framework.

•    You will drive and execute proof of concept efforts and integrate into current data ecosystem and determine how new technologies can be leveraged.

•    You will develop understanding of complex business requirements and take the lead to design enterprise information architecture solutions in compliance with BOKF data management principles and security controls.

•    You will deliver a maintainable and reusable data architecture that meets the needs of the organization, ensuring pitfalls are avoided.

•    You will act as SME to multiple data domains and is an SME for data sources in the domain and understand how the data within different domains relate.

•    You will define how data should be acquired, stored, processed, distributed, and consumed across different data technologies and architectures.

•    You will approve standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of data.

•    You will mentor more junior data architects, data solutions engineers, as well as other business and technical SMEs.

•    You will anticipate changing data-related technologies, looking for trends and opportunities for BOKF to adopt and roadmap for current and future needs.

Education & Experience Requirements

The required level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in information systems, data analytics or a related field and 15+ years’ experience in a data discipline such as developing and implementing data framework, reference models, or data modeling (operational and analytical). Certification in TOGAF (or similar framework required)

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements