What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Architect with Credit Risk Domain position at Sidzen LLC?
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Key Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture and technical design discussions, considering industry-standard technologies and best practices.
- Support production operations and resolve complex production issues as a senior developer within the Credit Risk application team.
- Design and implement batch and ad-hoc data pipelines based on Medallion Lakehouse architecture using modern cloud data engineering patterns, primarily in Databricks.
- Build and maintain data ingestion flows from upstream systems into object storage (e.g., S3, ADLS) using formats like Parquet, including advanced features such as partitioning, z-ordering, and schema evolution.
- Integrate with external XVA/risk engines and implement orchestration logic to manage long-running external computations.
- Model and optimize risk measures (e.g., EPE, PFE) for efficient querying and consumption by BI tools, notebooks, and downstream applications.
- Ensure platform reliability, observability, security (IAM roles, OIDC/Bearer token authentication, encryption), and auditability.
- Contribute to API design for internal and external customers, focusing on versioning, error handling, and SLAs, with proper documentation.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- 12-15 years of work experience as an application developer.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (or an equivalent cloud certification; Level to be confirmed).
- Strong domain expertise in Credit Risk and Counterparty Risk.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python, including experience with PySpark/Spark for data engineering and analytics.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, including Medallion Lakehouse Architecture.
- Solid understanding of SQL, including joins, unions, stored procedures, and query optimization.
- In-depth knowledge of CI/CD pipelines utilizing Git, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.
- Experience in creating product specifications, architecture diagrams, and design documents.
- Strong communication skills to clearly articulate complex ideas.
- Collaborative team player with a proactive, self-starter attitude.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technologies.
- Passion for coding, development, and continuous improvement.