Senior Investment Data Architect

Title: Investment Data Architect

Location: United States (Remote) with some expensed travel

Work Authorization: USC//EAD/H1B(C2C)

Qualifications:

• Must have a minimum of eight years of progressively responsible experience in investment data management, enterprise data platforms, data architecture & modeling, investment technology, business analysis, or data-platform delivery.
• Must have a minimum of five years of demonstrated experience designing, delivering, or supporting centralized investment data platforms or warehouses within institutional investment-management organizations, preferably with assets under management exceeding $50 billion.
• Must have demonstrated knowledge of investment data and business processes across public and private markets, including public equity, fixed income, private equity, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, and Total Fund or multi-asset management.
• Must have demonstrated experience supporting conceptual and logical investment data models, including entities, relationships, grains, keys, hierarchies, business definitions, source mappings, and governed consumption models.
• Must have demonstrated experience supporting broader data-platform capabilities, including data acquisition, integration, processing, storage, publication, data quality, metadata, lineage, access, analytics, and reporting.
• Must have demonstrated experience translating investment business use cases into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, conceptual data flows, model inputs, test scenarios, and implementation handoffs.
• Must have demonstrated experience defining requirements for data integration, conversion, migration, and harmonization using APIs, direct data sharing, events, ELT or ETL, and scheduled file-based exchanges.
• Must have demonstrated experience defining and operationalizing data governance capabilities, including classification, ownership and stewardship, metadata, lineage, access, data-quality rules, certification, and issue-management workflows.
• Must have experience leading complex data-platform or investment-technology delivery and supporting production or BAU operations through implementation, testing, deployment, adoption, monitoring, issue resolution, and operational transition.
• Must have experience managing assigned workstreams and collaborating with investment stakeholders, product owners, architects, engineers, governance teams, and vendors to produce complete deliverables and knowledge transfer.

Other Desirable Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, data management, finance, economics, business, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred.
• Finance and Investment Credentials: Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, Financial Risk Manager, or another relevant investment or data-management designation.
• Investment and Modern Data Platform Expertise: Experience with investment books of record, accounting, performance, risk, benchmark, market-data, private-market, cloud warehouse, integration, ELT, orchestration, source-control, business-intelligence, catalog, lineage, and data-quality capabilities. Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, GitHub, Power BI, or comparable technologies is desirable.
• Operating Model and Adoption: Experience establishing data-platform operating models, service and support processes, data literacy, training, onboarding, adoption, and enablement programs.
• Enterprise and Public Sector Exposure: Experience collaborating with Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, technology, governance, procurement, and public-sector teams, particularly within a public pension fund or large regulated organization.