Position: Data Architect
Company: TheSearchers
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Liberty Lending LLC is building a tech-enabled online platform that provides innovative financial solutions to deserving customers. The company, headquartered in New York City, was founded in 2015 by people who truly understand "smart debt" and want to help consumers improve their financial well-being. 

Liberty Lending continues to innovate the lending process, allowing consumers to get started in minutes and access funding as quickly as tomorrow.
At Liberty Lending, we are passionate about revolutionizing the banking system to make credit more affordable and accessible, all while helping consumers accomplish their goals.

**You will be responsible for:**
•	Lead the development and evolution of the data life-cycle management and strategy (Identity, analyze, scope business requirements and translate) for various types of data (structured, unstructured, metadata, Key Performance Indicators, metrics snapshots, etc).
•	Partner with IT to build, manage and improve a global data repository, enhance current tools, identify external solutions and implement new technologies,
•	Partner with business, SMEs, and other architects to assess the current data landscape, identify challenges from a business perspective
•	Design & optimize data architecture with key measurable goals & roadmaps
•	Stay informed of upcoming technology trends and identify strategic opportunities
•	Communicates effectively with business partners, management, and other areas
•	Ensure data is available, accessible, sustainable, and integrated across a landscape
•	Define and support governing data standards (formats, hierarchy, etc)
•	Increase analytics utilization through engagement and enhancing a user experience
•	Develop ongoing data monitoring protocols - daily checks/alerts, etc
•	Establish Data Catalog/Model methods enabling a user to discover data relationships
•	Implement practices for capturing, preserving, and spreading internal knowledge
•	Bring in new tools, systems, practices to help us achieve company goals faster/better

**The right person has:**
•	Bachelor of Science degree or foreign equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or a related field
•	5+ years of experience as a Data Architect
•	7+ years of experience with implementing and maintaining data warehouse platform
•	3+ year of programming experience is required
•	Experience in Data Mapping and architecture required
•	Experience performing optimization of disparate data sources
•	Experience with relational and NoSQL database implementations
•	Familiar with AWS and Salesforce
•	Experience with tools like Tableau, Looker, or equivalent for visualizing and presenting data for users/partners
•	Comfortable with being hands-on from SQL and programming perspective
•	Passion towards writing smart, performant, well-tested code
•	A genuine problem-solver who can always identify a path forward and make hard trade-off decisions with a focus on tangible business outcomes
•	A leader who believes in "winning as a team, losing as a team”
•	Comfortable with working in a fast-paced agile development environment
•	Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Not required, but would be a plus if:
•	Fintech Industry experience preferred
•	Programming languages preferred: Python, Java, or equivalent
•	Experience working with cloud data warehouse like Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, or equivalent is preferred