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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

We are seeking a skilled Cloud Data Architect Lead to design and develop our organization's data infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and agile methodologies. The successful applicant will be responsible for creating scalable and efficient data solutions using various programming languages and technologies. Provide application, systems, or process design recommendations based on short- and long- term Technology organization strategy. Develop enterprise level application and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions and features. Use a variety of platforms to provide automated systems applications. Provide expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. Determine specifications, then plan, design, and develop the most complex and business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes-either individually or in concert with project team. Provide architectural strategy and direction for multiple diverse application functions on a variety of multi-platform systems in order to support the achievement of corporate business objectives. Accountable to design data architecture standards and solutions for the company across data engineering, data platforms, AI / ML platforms, generative AI processes, self-service tools, data transformation tools. Further accountable for partnering with the technology and business teams to solution specific business processes and solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.  Specific activities may change from time to time. 

• Oversees data architecture for a specific business unit/corporate function (BU / CF), while collaborating closely with Enterprise Architecture, and guiding teams to support evolving strategic business and technical enterprise initiatives.

• Responsible for aligning data projects to the standards of the data strategy, architecture and enterprise architecture.

• Accountable for defining the conceptual, logical, and physical data models for their specific BU / CF.

• Accountable and responsible for instituting data architecture methodology across each BU / CF, as well as overseeing standardized processes for managing and storing data models in a centralized model repository.

• Partner with the technology, data delivery teams and BU / CF teams to architect solutions to meet specific audit issues, controls issues, MRAs, MRIAs, MRBAs and self-identified issues.

• Manage the application inventory for their specific BU / CF and mapping those to the data architecture methodology and proposing process changes related to Data Architecture. 

• Responsible for providing data architecture review and approval for each BU / CF as part of the Architecture Review Board, model governance & ethical practices committee for AI.

• Translate BU / CF requirements into technical implementations and schemas; determine technical solutions that can fulfill business needs and requests.

• Design proof-of-concept system prototypes for specific BU / CF with proper architecture.

• Stay up to speed on emerging industry and technologies while bringing those new practices to Truist.

• Develop application strategy in support of short- and long-term business pl