Data Architect

Chennai, India · Hybrid

About this role

At U.S. Bancorp India, we’re on a journey to do our best. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

The Data Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing enterprise data architecture to enable business growth, regulatory compliance, analytics, AI/ML capabilities, and operational excellence. This role partners with business leaders, product teams, data engineers, architects, governance teams, and technology stakeholders to establish scalable data solutions, standards, and models that support strategic business objectives and enterprise-wide data reuse. The Data Architect serves as a bridge between business strategy and technology implementation by translating business requirements into scalable conceptual, logical, and physical data architectures while ensuring alignment with enterprise governance, security, and data quality standards.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Identify opportunities to leverage data for operational efficiency, customer experience, analytics, and AI initiatives.
  • Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
  • Define enterprise data standards, naming conventions, and modeling best practices.
  • Create scalable architectures that support operational, analytical, and AI/ML workloads.
  • Develop domain-driven data models and reusable enterprise data assets.
  • Collaborate with Data Governance organizations to establish data standards, policies, and stewardship processes.
  • Define business metadata, reference data, business glossaries, and taxonomies.
  • Promote data quality, consistency, accuracy, completeness, and trust across enterprise data assets.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk management, and information security requirements.
  • Lead requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders.
  • Translate business processes, KPIs, and use cases into information models and data structures.
  • Facilitate alignment between business and technology architecture roadmaps.
  • Design data flows supporting real-time, batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures.
  • Collaborate with data engineers to implement robust and scalable pipelines.
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmaps.
  • Define semantic layers, business metrics, KPIs, and analytical data models.
  • Enable trusted datasets for reporting, business intelligence, machine learning, and AI applications.
  • Ensure consistency between business definitions and analytical implementations.
  • Create and maintain architecture artifacts, data dictionaries, lineage diagrams, models, and standards.
  • Support architecture governance reviews and design approvals

Experience / Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Science, Business Information Systems, or related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, database design, or enterprise information management.
  • 5+ years designing enterprise-scale data platforms and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience working in regulated industries such as Financial Services, Banking, Healthcare, or Insurance.
  • Experience supporting large-scale data transformation or modernization initiatives.
  • Strong expertise in conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Modeling, ER Modeling and Dimensional Modeling, Data Governance and Data Quality Frameworks, Data Integration and API Design, Data Warehousing and Lakehouse Architectures, Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS), SQL and Database Technologies
  • Technology stack – Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Data Services, AWS Data Platforms, Collibra, Informatica, Power BI, Apache Kafka, AI/ML Enablement Platforms

    Shift Timings - 11 AM - 8 PM

    Location - Chennai

    Location expectations
    This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.

Company at a glance

At U.S. Bank, we help millions of clients achieve their goals with a balance of best-in-class technology and human expertise tailored to individual needs. As the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, we’ve built a reputation for strength and stability across a diversified mix of businesses, including commercial and institutional banking, business banking, payments, wealth management and consumer banking. We’ve been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute and the most admired superregional bank by Fortune.

In addition to thousands of branches serving consumers, U.S. Bank offers a complete suite of products, services and strategic partnerships for business. Within our Wealth, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking division, we serve more than half a million clients across the country and around the world, ranging from wealthy individuals and families to the largest corporations, including 90% of Fortune 1000 companies.

We’re also consistently recognized as a great place to work. We’re shaping our company culture with intention, focused on creating a workplace where it’s safe to speak up, share ideas and try new things. We’re proud to be recognized as a “Best for Vets” employer by the Military Times and included on Fair360’s (formerly DiversityInc.) list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity.

U.S. Bank, NA. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.

Team Size10,001+ employees
WorkspaceHybrid
IndustryBanking
Location
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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