Data Architect - CONTRACTOR
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Tech Americas | IT Data Architect – Contractor | New York

About ING:

Ranked #8 on LinkedIn Top Companies in Financial Services and named to Crain's 100 Best Places to Work in NYC

In the Americas, ING's Wholesale Banking division offers a broad range of innovative financial products and services to domestic and international corporate and institutional clients.

When you come to work at ING, you join a team where individuality is not just accepted, it is encouraged. We have built a culture that is fun, friendly, and supportive – it is the kind of place where you can be yourself and make the most of whatever you have to offer.

We give people the freedom to take risks, think differently, take ownership of their work, and make remarkable things happen. We are here to help you get ahead. And with our global network, there is plenty of scope to take your career in new directions, even ones you have never considered.

Sounds like the kind of place you would feel at home? We would love to hear from you.

About the position:

ING is looking to streamline the application set, data sources and reporting into consolidated platforms, which adhere to strategic direction and simplify data flows and improve data quality. In order to achieve these goals, the successful candidate will analyze existing feeds, flows in and out, data structures, transformations and target operating data lakes in order to simplify these flows and reduce their number and reduce the number of transformations.

The position will report directly into the CIO office. The successful candidate will work with DevOps leads and engineers, and business units to accomplish the mission.

About the department:

ING Americas CIO Office is an organization which executes strategic plans to align all technology teams with ING's strategy and locally with business.

Responsibilities:

As the Data Architect you will be responsible for:

• Developing a deep understanding of the existing architecture of data warehouses, data lakes both local and global.
• Closely work with global architecture tribe to identify path to target
• Analyzing the reporting structures and understanding the underlaying data required for the reports
• Analyze and identify redundant data
• Identify ways to improve the data flows to remove redundancy, and bring legacy to target solutions
• Identify and implement transformations required to simplify the data flows
• Identify and implement migration strategies to target platforms while supporting existing structures
• Understand in depth, and enforcing data integrity
• Perform all changes according with ING change control and ensuring continues reliability and availability of the systems
• Taking the lead in self-development by staying abreast of industry trends and sharing your knowledge with your direct reports

In addition:

• You should familiarize yourself with azure pipelines
• Know the principles of agile way of working
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability
• Evaluating innovative technology alternatives and vendor products
• Designing and maintaining systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring
• Creating IT risk and security artifacts like pen testing, security assessments, Identity and access management processes, Disaster recovery etc.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Bachelor diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience in related field
• Level of expertise required:

• Proven record of accomplishment in successfully managing Data projects & teams throughout the complete project lifecycle in an agile organization
• Passionate about technology and self-development
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Strong organizational sensitivity and the ability to understand and consider the underlying issues, opportunities, and dynamics of the cross-border organization
• Continuous improvement mind-set
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze data requirements
• Strong understanding of Data Governance, Data Quality and Data Security principle
• [Preferred] Strong understanding of financial products and services, including Commercial and Investment banking
• [Preferred] Familiarity with Financial Regulatory requirements and/or Agencies such as FINRA, SEC, NFA
• [Preferred] having a good understanding of global systems such as ledger, data lakes and Global Processing Center
• [Preferred]Knowledge of current platforms and current strategic solutions

Proficiency required:

• Scripting – Python, PowerShell, JavaScript
• Pipeline development – YAML

Salary range: $86-$103/hr

ING is a committed equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to color, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. We celebrate these differences and rely upon your unique perspective to innovate and seize new opportunities. Come as you are.

ING Bank does not have a commercial banking license in the U.S. and therefore not permitted to conduct a commercial banking business in the U.S. Through its wholly owned subsidiary ING Financial Services LLC, and its affiliates, it offers a full array of wholesale products such as commercial lending and a full range of FM products and services.