What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Solution Architect position at Photon?
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The Solution Architect will design, lead, and evolve core data models and enterprise services for a high-volume auto finance platform. This role is responsible for strategic architecture, end-to-end data integration, scalability, reliability, compliance, and team leadership throughout new service builds and data migration initiatives.
Key Responsibilities :
- Strategic Data Architecture & Platform Design
- Define scalable data architecture and standards optimized for millions of records and microservices environments.
- Oversee target and current state data model design, aligning business, regulatory, and technical needs.
- Advanced Data Modeling & Migration
- Design robust logical and physical data models supporting high-transaction auto finance workloads.
- Lead migration strategy assessing legacy data sources, stewarding data quality, and ensuring secure transitions.
- Real-Time & Batch Data Processing
- Architect efficient pipelines for real-time and batch data handling, enabling analytics and transaction processing at scale.
- Optimize storage, indexing, and compute for latency and throughput in auto finance scenarios.
- Data Integration & Cross-Platform Enablement
- Oversee integration patterns for internal/external systems, supporting API, event-based, and cloud-enabled services.
- Enable interoperability across business units, external partners, and customer channels.
- Governance, Compliance & Data Quality
- Establish data governance, security, lineage, and stewardship frameworks meeting regulatory and business standards.
- Implement compliance for PCI, and auto finance-specific policies.
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders including engineering, business product owners, and compliance officers.
- Mentor developers/data engineers, fostering continuous improvement, technical documentation, and standards adoption.
- Drive innovation and share best practices within the technical community.
Qualifications & Experience :
- Extensive experience in strategic data architecture and enterprise platform design (microservices, cloud, Auto finance domain preferred).
- Mastery of data modeling, integration, migration, and real-time/batch data processing at scale.
- Demonstrated leadership and stakeholder management in cross-platform, compliance-focused environment
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar (or equivalent experience)
- 15 years of Experience with 5 years in data architecture or data solution design
- Expertise in cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and big data technologies
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