Data Architect

Hybrid (Austin, Texas -2 days per in the office, and the other days working from home)

6 Months Contract

Functional Responsibilities:

• A strong data integration background, with knowledge of Investment business operations (Front, Middle and Back-Office)

• Familiar with all aspects of the Eagle PACE warehouse, including scheduling, report writing,data stewardship, portal, and data model/schemas

• Familiar with Eagle v2017 Modules (Portfolio Data Center, Message Center, Automation Center, Scheduler, Workflow Manager, Reference Data Center, Recon Center, etc.)

• Builds complex SQL queries against base and aggregate tables

• Participates in the design, development, and integration of Investment databases

• Design, implement and deploy the data pipelines to transform (structure and map) vendor data into Investments systems.

• Stay current with data vendor product offerings and how they may be used by Investments and assisting with tool selection.

• Manage and enhance investment data infrastructure through initiatives such as improving data integrity and quality with every release

• Work in a fast-paced environment collaborating with business users, engineers, architects, and analysts.

• Maintain data management standards to ensure that new data entities get implemented in the data model using schemas that are appropriate for their use, facilitating good performance and analytics needs

• Perform Eagle maintenance release including pre and post data and software validation

• Provide input to our framework team for enhancing the tools we utilize

• Develops technical designs and specifications for complex file data pipelines/data flows and document file data migrations

• Leverage creativity to solve complex data and business problems

• Documents data dictionary and data mapping/transformation rules

• Works extensively with business analysts and investment professionals to analyze business problems

• Supports daily activity of the investment control systems areas by creating and maintaining custom reports and programs and by providing technical support for system and software issues

• Assists customer in creating and running test scripts for data loads and report development

Additional Skills:

• Prefer experience in general accounting, investment accounting, account reconciliation, and writing procedures

• Financial knowledge in investment banking and accounting.

• Understanding of data mart structures, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts

• Desire to work in an Agile environment and use DevOps / DataOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment

• Hands on and extensive experience with many of the following technologies: Crystal Reports,.Net (VB or C#), MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access/Excel. FIX, SWIFT, and XML, IWS/Eagle ML

• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills

• Proficient ability to explain technical information to a non-technical audience

• Ability to learn new concepts, systems, and software independently and quickly

• Willingness to take initiative, seeing problems through to final completion

• The ability handle diverse situations and rapidly changing priorities with deadlines

• Demonstrated experience with implementation of Eagle STAR/PACE software upgrades.

• Strong aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving

Minimum Requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university.

Each year of related experience over the required may be substituted for one year (30 semester hours) of required college credit

• 5 years data analysis and data modeling/architecture experience

• 5 years SQL experience

• 5 years experience designing and implementing ETL technical solutions for complex data models using multiple data sources

• 4 years of experience with Eagle database environment including schema architecture

• Strong communication and collaboration skills and good documentation habits.

• Demonstrated experience with orchestration and automation of database processes.

• 4 years’ experience working in Eagle PACE as a data integrator implementing data pipelines.