Director, Data Architecture

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

S&P Global Market Intelligence

The Role: Director, Data Architecture

Grade 13

The Location: Gurgaon

The Team:

The Enterprise Solutions business within S&P Global Market intelligence provides buy-side, sell-side, and corporate clients with industry-leading software, data and services. The business portfolio offers a broad range of product offerings covering enterprise data management, investment management, loans platforms, regulatory and compliance solutions, and private markets solutions.

The Enterprise Solutions Technology function is accountable for delivering technology solutions for the Enterprise Solutions products, in partnership with the product, commercial and wider divisional functions. The Enterprise Solutions Technology function comprises of the Business Segment / Product aligned delivery functions, Architecture & Design, Technology & Infrastructure Services, Engineering Enablement Services & Industrialization, Data Science & Data Engineering and Project Management Office.

The Impact:

• We are looking for Group Manager Data Architecture to join the Architecture function in the Enterprise Solutions Technology. The Position is regarded as the Subject Matter Expert on data strategy and brings in-depth development, design and architecture expertise to lend support to the delivery of complex data solutions. The role is responsible to translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations. The data architect is responsible for visualizing and designing an organization’s enterprise data management framework. This framework describes the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge data. The role will also provide a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture.

What’s in it for you:

• Leads the creation and evolution of the strategy and direction of data design, business intelligence, and analytics including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses.
• Formulates standards, processes, and procedures to align with the data architecture/management for business and products.
• Define long-term data architecture, blueprint, and strategy to support business growth for next 3-5yrs and help to plan for readiness of systems across functions.
• Working closely with CTO, CDO and other Data Architects to deliver data solutions at highest standards.
• Managing data definition, usage, quality, metrics for data attributes, data models and data dictionary and measuring to follow all the data architecture standards.
• Accountable for creation and maintenance of Data Strategy, Roadmaps including designs, ensuring appropriate architectural governance approvals are obtained.
• Ensure that Data Models are central to design and Physical data Models are forward engineered from central Logical Data Model in new builds.

What We’re Looking For:

• 18+ years of experience with atleast 8+ years of experience in Data strategy , Architecture & design
• Exposure to data design, data transformation, ETL, Monitoring tools APIs, various data formats (JSON, Avro, Parquet) and experience in documenting/maintaining interface inventories.
• Data Design and Requirements Analysis: Able to apply data design patterns and frameworks, working knowledge of schemas and normalisation.

• Excellent communication and people management skills
• Ability to manage senior business stakeholders and internal technical team.
• Ability to understand implications of technology decisions holistically - business, implications on other solutions, security, performance, migration, customer experience etc.
• Relevant Certifications is preferred.
• Experience in Financial domain is a plus.
• Technical Skills
  • Knowledge of a RDBMS system (Oracle/Postgres ) & NOSql Databases
  • Good understanding of distributed systems and databases
  • Performance Engineering - Can explain performance and capacity planning concepts and processes, Ability to performance tune applications using various runtime tools provided for Technology Stack.

Flexible Working (optional)

We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can.  

Return to Work

Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative (link to career site page when available), we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

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If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person. 

 

About S&P Global Market Intelligence

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For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

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Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
 

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.