Data Architect

Bengaluru

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Granicus

Digital Civic Engagement for Government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 250 million people with 5,500+ government organizations.

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Granicus is the leading provider of citizen engagement technologies and services for the public sector, bringing governments closer to the people they serve with the first-and-only Civic Engagement Platform. Granicus works with more than 5,500 government organizations and connects more than 280 million people in the largest Citizen Subscriber Network of its kind.

What your impact will look like here

  • Responsible for analyzing and translating strategic plans/needs and industry trends to map out how information should function and flow to support business and determine capability gaps. Develop and expand capability strategy by internal development of the existing constructs and platforms as needed. Provide guidance around data analysis to support the business and data strategy. Partner with IT in developing an IT framework/data product. Provide vision to project teams, resolving cross domain functional issues and aligning project work to the vision/functional designs provided.
  • Carries out the most complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues. Consistently displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the rest of the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity of information solutions. Highly flexible and adaptable to change
  • Surfacing information priority: Assessing the benefits and the risks of information planned to be used in key initiatives to help steer the project teams in the right direction
  • Enhancing decision making: Provide the organization with a future-state view of the information landscape that is unencumbered by the specific data implementation details imposed by proprietary solutions or technologies.
  • Influencing data / information strategy: By partnering with business unit leadership, and through the rationalization of the information value chain, the information architect will provide strategic, information-based recommendations to protect the organization from disruptions while also embracing innovation.
  • Governing data more effectively: Working with Data Governance suggesting who can take what actions, with what information, and under what circumstances. Assist the Enterprise Data Group in developing governance processes and structures.
  • Creating more value from data: Exploring the impact of business strategy changes on information management practices. Investigating ways to extract additional value from existing information assets.
  • Data modelling: Creating and managing conceptual and logical data models as needed.
  • Improving performance: Championing efforts to improve business performance through enterprise information solutions and capabilities, such as master data management (MDM), metadata management, analytics, content management, data integration / data mesh, and related information management or information infrastructure components.
  • Carries out the most complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.
  • Consistently displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the rest of the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
  • Work with enterprise architecture, DBA, DevOps, and software engineering teams
  • Demonstrate the ability to work well with others and be respected as a leader despite non-management role.
  • Be an excellent communicator and collaborator across multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders.

You will love this job if you have

  • 5+ years’ experience in data architecture, data pipelines, data quality, and modern data lakes
  • Expert experience with AWS data services
  • Expert experience with Oracle
  • Intermediate level experience working with unstructured data
  • Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST (preferred)
  • Expert modernizing data technology and information architecture on cloud
  • Intermediate level experience with exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI
  • Expert hands-on experience with data technologies on cloud
  • Beginner/Intermediate level experience with MDM, BI, and data mesh design and implementation techniques.
  • Beginner/Intermediate level of experience with AWS Glue and data brew
  • Beginner/Intermediate level experience with serverless architecture
  • Beginner/Intermediate experience with design of event driven data architecture and EventBridge
  • Beginner/Intermediate level experience with social sentiment data analysis and recommendation engines
  • Expert experience of designing and implementing information solutions.
  • Expert experience business domain, data/content and process understanding
  • Expert experience in data-modelling and information classification expertise at the enterprise level.
  • Expert experience understanding of common information architecture frameworks and information models.
  • Intermediate knowledge of problem analysis, structured analysis and design, and programming techniques.
  • Ability to assess rapidly changing technologies and apply them to business needs.
  • Strong communication and persuasion skills, including the ability to create messaging materials that meet stakeholder preferences.
  • Ability to analyse project, program and portfolio needs, as well as to determine the resources needed to achieve objectives and overcome cross-functional barriers.
  • Be an excellent communicator and collaborator across multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders.

The Team

  • We area globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Culture

  • At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of our journey. A few culture highlights include –
  • -        Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
  • -        Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work life balance and current affairs.
  • -        Slack communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.
  • -        We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee population
  • The Company
  • Serving the People Who Serve the People
  • Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.
  • Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.
  • Want to know more? See more of what we do here

The Impact

  • We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here.

The Process

  • Assessment – Take a quick assessment.
  • Phone screen – Speak to one of our talented recruiters to ensure this could be a fit.
  • Coding – Take a quick coding test online.
  • Hiring Manager/Panel interview – Talk to the hiring manager so they can learn more about you and you about Granicus. Meet more members on the team! Learn more and share more.
  • Reference checks – Provide 2 references so we can hear about your awesomeness.
  • Verbal offer – Let’s talk numbers, benefits, culture and answer any questions.
  • Written offer – Sign a formal letter and get excited because we sure are!

Benefits at Granicus India

  • Along with the challenges of the job, Granicus offers employees an attractive benefits package which includes –

  • Hospitalization Insurance Policy covering employees and their family members including parents
  • All employees are covered under Personal Accident Insurance & Term Life Insurance policy
  • All employees can avail annual health check facility 
  • Eligible for reimbursement of telephone and internet expenses
  • Wellness Allowance to avail health club memberships and/or access to physical fitness centres
  • Wellbeing Wednesdays which includes 1x global Unplug Day and 2x No Meeting Days every quarter
  • Memberships for ‘meditation and mindfulness ‘ apps including on-demand mental health support 24/7 
  • Access to learning management system Say., Udemy Learning Premium account membership & many more
  • Access to Rewards & recognition portal and quarterly recognition program

  • Granicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status regarding public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. 

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Security Requirement
Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.

Tags: Architecture AWS Classification Data analysis Data governance Data management Data pipelines Data quality Data strategy DevOps Engineering Machine Learning Oracle Pipelines Security Unstructured data

Perks/benefits: Career development Fitness / gym Flex hours Health care Insurance Wellness

Region: Asia/Pacific
Country: India
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Category: Architecture Jobs

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