Data Architect - Cape Town / Johannesburg at Luno

Your mission will be:

• Leading the technological choices, tools and business processes used to ensure consistent data and high data quality across all workflows
• Working with Product management, Data Science and Business Analysts to identify core Data Products, and designing the data flows necessary to create them.
• Defining and implementing the strategy around data governance, data privacy & security
• Collaboration with the Data Engineering Manager, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, Business partners and cross-Fleet Architecture.
• Defining, developing, implementing and evolving the data model for all business domains, ensuring alignment across the group.
• Contributing to the overall data platform strategy, road-mapping, data product delivery, information security and compliance
• Championing and contributing to our creation and maintenance of a data catalogue and a ubiquitous language that we can use to rationalise our use of data across the business.
• Identify areas of innovation in data tools and techniques, and recognise appropriate timing for adoption
• Mentoring and developing the team of data engineers and the larger engineering team on best data practices.

A little about you:

• 5+ years experience in a similar role
• Experience as a Data Architect within a regulated environment (eg gambling, finance, crypto, health, public companies)
• Deep understanding of data models, standards and tools used across architecture, and engineering.
• Experience working within strategy and product development teams to support global data projects.
• Demonstrated understanding of data governance and data policy for an enterprise environment
• Understanding of Metadata Management, able to design and maintain metadata repos to enable Luno to understand our data assets.
• Experience building solutions within a cloud environment (ideally AWS)
• Experience with Databricks would be awesome
• Experience working with Apache Spark
• Strong skillsets in the core competencies of a data architect: systems development (lifecycle management including testing; predictive analytics; data visualisation), global data management (systems and interfaces; standards; roadmaps)