Data Architect

Role Summary

• Northern Trust - Data Architect (IBM MDM)
• Chicago IL or REMOTE
• 24-Months
• Will be responsible for Architecting/Designing/Developing MDM data management. MDM Data is a collection of Northern Parties and contains

large volume of data.

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.

Experience Level: 10+ years

Responsibilities

Tasks & responsibilities

Apply data management and architecture expertise in developing solution architecture and advanced analytics solution design, including reporting technology; Articulate tradeoffs, strengths, and weaknesses of various architectures and their components to determine the best design given use cases and constraints,

• Identify internal and external data sources for potential integration into platform; Lead data migration and integration projects,
• Create appropriate standards and processes to ensure quality and consistency of data in the platform,
• Outline best practices and establish standards for data strategy, data lifecycle, data ownership, data definition, and data classification,
• Collaborate with stakeholders and advanced analytics business partners to understand business needs and to identify and define advanced analytics solutions

Requirements

• Knowledge and hands-on development experience implementing MDM solutions using IBM MDM Advanced/Standard Edition v11.x., v12.x
• Customization of IBM Physical MDM (Extensions, Additions, Behavior extensions, Notifications, External Rules, Event Handling, Specs, Batch Processor, etc).
• Strong hands-on development experience, Suspect Duplicate Processing, Survivorship Rules.
• Sound understanding of IBM Physical MDM concepts, Data Model (Party/Contract) and services/transactions.
• Comfortable in configuring probabilistic matching engine (PME) (i.e. strong experience in developing and tuning the algorithm), Match iteration and tuning experience.
• Review current suspect matching algorithm and determine scope for improvement and implement the improvements.
• Comfortable in customizing DSUI(JSF based application)
• Strong in Core Java and SQL/PLSQL
• Comfortable in Unix scripting and commands
• Very strong customer interaction and communication skill
• Should be ready to work with offshore as coordinator

Nice to Haves

• Understanding of the investment management business, multiple asset classes, client and regulatory reporting
• Investment/financial technology systems within a large scale Asset Management setting