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Work Location: Jersey City, NJ (Day 1 Onsite- 5 days in a week) – Need Inperson Client Interview
Duration: Long Term Contract
• Excellent domain knowledge in Market Risk and Front-office Risk Domains
• Experience in developing Market Risk Analytics Platforms
This team ensures the foundational data that underpins a firm's risk analysis is accurate, timely, and secure.
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Data Architect to lead the design and implementation of a next-generation data platform for our financial services clients, directly enabling robust risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.
This role requires a hands-on leader who can architect enterprise-grade systems, establish rigorous data governance and quality frameworks, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across the front, middle, and back office.
• Excellent domain knowledge in Market Risk and Front-office Risk Domains
• Experience in developing Market Risk Analytics Platforms
• Extensive, hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning, security best practices, and cost management.
• Expert-level knowledge of the AWS ecosystem, including S3, EC2, Lambda, Glue, IAM, and networking fundamentals.
• Advanced programming proficiency in Python for data manipulation, pipeline development, and automation.
• Demonstrable experience architecting and delivering data solutions for BI and analytics, with direct experience using tools like Sigma and/or Power BI.
• Crucially, extensive experience and deep domain knowledge of financial services back-office operations, specifically within Risk Management (e.g., trade lifecycle, settlement risk, counterparty data, collateral).
• Expert-level understanding of data architecture patterns (e.g., Data Warehousing, Data Lake, Data Mesh), data modeling, and data governance principles.
• Deep, practical experience with data security principles and implementation, including data encryption (at-rest, in-transit), tokenization, and managing Material Non-Public Information (MNPI).
• Experience with data transformation tools like dbt (Data Build Tool).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of streaming data technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis).
• Strong understanding of financial instruments across equities, fixed income, and derivatives.
• Data Modeling & Pipelines: Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for risk data domains. Lead the development of complex, high-performance data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Python (including Snowpark) and AWS data services (e.g., Glue, Lambda, Kinesis).
• Governance & Quality: Establish and champion a robust data governance framework. Define and enforce standards for data lineage, metadata management, and data quality. Implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the highest levels of data integrity.
• Business Intelligence & Analytics: Partner with Market risk Business, operations teams, and leadership to understand their data needs. Architect data marts and semantic layers optimized for analytics and support the development of insightful dashboards and reports using Sigma, Power BI, and other BI tools.
• Security & Compliance: Serve as a subject matter expert on data security within the data platform. Design and implement solutions for data classification, access control, and protection, ensuring compliance with firm policies and financial regulations.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to data engineers and analysts. Champion best practices in data architecture, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Drive innovation by evaluating and adopting new technologies and methodologies.
Thanks & Regards,
Rahul Kumar
Technical Recruiter
METASIS Information Systems
(a E-verify Company)
Fax : 214-291 2507
Email: rahul.k@metasisinfo.com
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