Enterprise Data Architect

Job Title:
Enterprise Data Architect
Location:
Block 23
What youll do:
The Enterprise Data Architect is accountable to guide technology delivery teams and business users in the appropriate implementation and use of the end-to-end enterprise data architecture, patterns, and standards. The Enterprise Data Architect is responsible to collaborate and contribute with data engineers, data governance, and enterprise architects to build and enhance data warehouse and analytics data model definition and standards. The focus of this role is to deliver the end-to-end data architecture and data models required for Regulatory Reporting, including Large Financial Institution requirements.
The Enterprise Data Architect is accountable with Data Platform Architects for the architecture, design, standards, & frameworks that will help define and implement a data platform to support our data strategy. This challenging role integrates business, data management, and data governance knowledge to develop a cross-business unit data tier that can be leveraged in new and innovative ways to improve our products and insights. This role requires strong strategic & critical thinking skills as well as communication and collaboration skills in developing relationships across the organization to enable and advance the data strategy that will support our growth trajectory.
The Enterprise Data Architect is a change agent and expected to be a servant leader in transforming the way data is managed and used across the Western Alliance Bank technology and business organizations.
This position is ONSITE ONLY located in either Phoenix, AZ, Dallas, TX, or Columbus, OH.
What we are looking for:
Accountable to develop, contribute, and publish the data standards, data definitions and reference architecture of the data platforms that will be leveraged to aggregate, cleanse, report, analyze and submit regulatory reporting datasets through consistency & standardization across our data assets. The platform will be required to scale significantly in both types and quantity of data, as well as the tooling on top of the platform that supports data insight generation, visualization, & model development.
Oversee and validate the end-to-end design for the data flows, data integration, and data analytics Regulatory Reporting solutions.
Responsible to advance data standards through the data governance operating model as well as provide guidance to the data governance team in the use of the data governance platform.
Accountable to oversee the onboarding of projects to the enterprise data platform architecture as well as incorporating data governance processes and tooling to any data assets introduced by the project.
Accountable for the development of the conceptual, logical, and physical data models in collaboration with data architects, data engineers, data analysts, and business stakeholders.
Accountable to integrate data governance and data quality controls in the architecture and design for the end-to-end regulatory reporting data solutions.
Works with business and technology leaders to identify new data types and assets that can be leveraged to improve our risk posture & insights that in turn improve our products and profitability.
Collaborates with various teams managing data silos and marts to identify opportunities & wins associated with contributing to & leveraging enterprise data assets.
Contribute to architecture artifacts related to the enterprise data platforms such as standards, patterns, & architectural roadmaps.
Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise.
Facilitates the evaluation and selectio