Data Architect

Our Company

At FirstBank PR , we strive to be a trusted advisor to our clients and our employees are the ones that ensure we deliver on our promise of excellence in personalized customer service. Our more than 3,100 employees in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Florida share a passion for excellent customer service. We are proud of our team because they are continuously surpassing our client’s expectations.

Do you have a passion for helping customers, building relationships, and delivering extraordinary, personalized customer service? If your answer is yes, FirstBank is the number one place for you.

A Brief Overview

The role of the Enterprise Data Architect is to expand the company’s use of data as a strategic enabler of corporate goals and objectives. The Enterprise Data Architect will achieve this by strategically designing, developing, and implementing data models for enterprise-level applications and systems. These models shall be architected at the following layers: conceptual, logical, business area, and application. This individual will act as the primary advocate of data modeling methodologies and data processing best practices.

What you’ll do

Strategy & Planning

• Develop and deliver long-term strategic goals for data architecture vision and standards in conjunction with data users, department managers, clients, and other key stakeholders.

• Create short-term tactical solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall data management roadmap.

• Establish processes for governing the identification, collection, and use of corporate metadata; take steps to assure metadata accuracy and validity.

• Establish methods and procedures for tracking data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvement.

• Conduct data capacity planning, life cycle, duration, usage requirements, feasibility studies, and other tasks.

• Create strategies and plans for data security, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and archiving.

• Ensure that data strategies and architectures are in regulatory compliance.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Ensure the success of enterprise-level application rollouts (e.g. ERP, SCM, CRM, SAP, Salesforce, etc.)

• Liaise with vendors and service providers to select the products or services that best meet company goals.

Operational Management

• Assess and determine governance, stewardship, and frameworks for managing data across the organization.

• Develop and promote data management methodologies and standards.

• Select and implement the appropriate tools, software, applications, and systems to support data technology goals.

• Oversee the mapping of data sources, data movement, interfaces, and analytics, with the goal of ensuring data quality.

• Collaborate with project managers and business unit leaders for all projects involving enterprise data.

• Address data-related problems in regards to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple-platform integration.

• Act as a leader and advocate of data management, including coaching, training, and career development to staff.

• Develop and implement key components as needed to create testing criteria in order to guarantee the fidelity and performance of data architecture.

• Document the data architecture and environment in order to maintain a current and accurate view of the larger data picture.

• Identify and develop opportunities for data reuse, migration, or retirement.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field.

• Certifications like Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate and Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate are a Plus.

Knowledge & Experience

• 3-5 years work experience as a data or information architect.

• Hands-on experience with data architecting, data mining, large-scale data modeling, and business requirements gathering/analysis.

• Direct experience in implementing enterprise data management processes, procedures, and decision support.

• Strong understanding of relational data structures, theories, principles, and practices.

• Strong familiarity with metadata management and associated processes.

• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise repository tools, data modeling tools, data mapping tools, and data profiling tools.

• Demonstrated expertise with repository creation, and data and information system life cycle methodologies.

• Experience with business requirements analysis, entity relationship planning, database design, reporting structures, and so on.

• Ability to manage data and metadata migration.

• Experience with database platforms, including preferrable MS SQL Server and Oracle Database.

• Strong understanding of Structured Query Language.

• Understanding of Web services (SOAP, XML, WSDL, REST/JSON and gRPC).

• Object oriented programming experience (e.g. using Java, J2EE, EJB, .NET, WebSphere, etc.).

• Excellent client/user interaction skills to determine requirements.

• Experience with data processing flowcharting techniques.

• Proven project management experience.

• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.

• Excellent English and Spanish written and verbal communication skills

First Bank Puerto Rico is a proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and takes affirmative action to employ Women, Protected Veterans, People with Disabilities and Minorities regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected status.