Associate Director Data Architecture

DTCC • Tampa, FL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Familiar with Enterprise data architecture frameworks
• Experience producing Reference architectures
• Experience with data integration architecture
• Experience with data mesh & domain-driven design
• Experience with cloud data warehouses
• Experience with data lakehouse architecture
• Familiar with the tools in the modern data stack
• Subject matter expertise with Financial data domains
• Familiar with data governance principles
• Familiar with DAMA-DMBOK, enterprise glossary management, and cross-domain data standards governance.
• Experience with semantic layer & data product design
• Technical vision & architecture direction
• Executive & board-level communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Technology vendor evaluation & negotiation
• Mentoring & technical coaching
• Familiar with agile / scrum delivery
• Architecture governance & technology standards

Nice To Haves

• Familiar with the tools in the modern data stack
• Familiar with DAMA-DMBOK, enterprise glossary management, and cross-domain data standards governance.
• Familiar with agile / scrum delivery

Responsibilities

• Applies TOGAF, Zachman, or DAMA-DMBOK to design enterprise-wide data architectures.
• Produces architecture views (conceptual, logical, physical, operational) aligned to business capability models.
• Authors reusable reference architectures and blueprints for common patterns (e.g., regulatory reporting, real-time risk, MDM hub).
• Ensures consistency across solution teams.
• Produces clear, maintainable architecture documentation including Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), sequence diagrams, component diagrams, and system context diagrams.
• Designs scalable integration patterns including batch ETL/ELT, Change Data Capture (CDC), event streaming, and API-led connectivity.
• Understands idempotency requirements in financial reconciliation workflows.
• Applies domain-driven design (DDD) and data mesh principles — bounded contexts, domain ownership, data-as-a-product — to decompose monolithic data platforms without sacrificing enterprise consistency.
• Designs medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architectures.
• Understands Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Hudi for ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time-travel on object storage.
• Champions data ownership, stewardship, and policy enforcement.
• Designs reusable, business-aligned semantic layers (metrics layers, logical data products) that decouple business logic from physical storage.
• Ensures consistent KPI definitions across the enterprise.
• Sets the long-term data modeling and architecture strategy aligned to business and regulatory roadmaps.
• Establishes guardrails and patterns that scale across the organization.
• Translates complex data architecture and modeling concepts into clear business impact narratives for C-suite, risk committees, and regulators.
• Works effectively with business analysts, software engineers, risk, finance, compliance, and product teams to align on data definitions, integration contracts, and model fitness for purpose.
• Evaluates vendor platforms against enterprise requirements using structured scoring.
• Leads proof-of-concept exercises and negotiates commercial terms for data platform and tooling contracts.
• Develops junior and mid-level team members through pair work, structured feedback, and stretch assignments.
• Builds team capability and independence rather than individual dependency on key staff.
• Runs or participates effectively in agile ceremonies.
• Breaks down complex data modeling and architecture initiatives into sprint-sized deliverables with clear acceptance criteria and definition of done.
• Maintains the enterprise architecture standards register, technology radar, and approved patterns catalog.
• Manages exceptions process and ensures standards keep pace with platform evolution.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Associate degree