Role Specification

For the position of: Data Architect

With:

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Roles and
Responsibilities The data architect is expected to formulates the organizational data strategy, including
standards of data quality, the flow of data within the organization, and security of data.

Managing end-to-end data architecture, from selecting the platform, designing the technical
architecture, and developing the application to finally testing and implementing the proposed
solution.

The Data Architect is responsible for driving the database architecture and design for Egon
Zehnder large-scale, Intranet and Internet-based applications.

The Data Architect will predominantly be occupied with researching new tools and technologies
and asked to come up with recommendations on how they can be used in Egon Zehnder
applications.

The Data Architect will also be expected to actively participate in design and implementation of
projects bearing a high degree of technical complexity and/or scalability and performance
significance.

Identifying data sources, both internal and external, and working out a plan for data
management that is aligned with organizational data strategy.

Collaborate cross-functionally with roles such as IT infrastructure, Digital/application

development, and Legal to identify and highlight gaps and risks around Cybersecurity and Data
Protection such as GDPR
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Experience & Key • Engineering Degree or equivalent.

Competencies • 10+ years of experience of SQL writing and data modelling skills, with a solid
understanding of data technologies including RDBMS, No-SQL databases.
• Experience with one or more of the following databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Oracle, Couch-base, Redis, Elastic Search or other NoSQL technologies.
• Experience in integrating new/replacing vendor products in existing ecosystem.
• Experience in migrating data structured, unstructured data to Data lake
• Experience and hands on experience in Application Integration.
• Experience or understanding of performance engineering both at system level and
database level.
• Solid understanding of Microservices based architecture.
• Experience or understanding of Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Issue Management.
• Work closely with the implementation teams of the various product lines to ensure that
data architectural standards and best practices are being followed consistently across all
Egon Zehnder applications
• Stakeholder management with an ability to gain others support for ideas, proposals,
projects, and solutions.
• Ensure compliance with all regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Escalate issues/risks pro-actively to appropriate stakeholders.
• Regularly communicate status and challenges to team members and management.
• Self-driven with keenness to master, suggest and work with different technologies &
toolsets.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills suitable for a diverse audience with
ability to communicate in a positive friendly and effective manner with technical or non-
technical users/customers
• Excellent and resourceful problem-solving skills, adaptable and willingness to learn.
• Good analysis skills - to be able to join the dots across multiple applications and interfaces
between them.
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Skill Set • Experience with one or more of the following databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Oracle, Couch-base, Redis, Elastic Search or other NoSQL technologies.
• Experience in Data factory and Data Lake technologies.
• Rich Experience in data modelling techniques and creating various data models.
• Experience in Azure cloud services and architecture patterns.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs for data distribution.
• Ability to Understand and articulate the technical merits.
• Understanding of deployment architecture and infrastructure in both on-prem and cloud
hosting environments
• Excellent oral and written communication with an ability to articulate complex systems to
multiple teams.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision

The position is Remote or based at Egon Zehnder Knowledge Center India (KCI), Plot no. 29, Institutional
Area, Sector 32, Gurgaon.

• Working Days: Monday-Friday (Flexible to work on Weekends if required)

• Shift Timings: 11 AM – 7.30 PM

Egon Zehnder Information Research & Services (EZIRS) aims for a diverse workplace and strive to
continuously lead with our firm values. We respect personal values of every individual irrespective of race,
national or social origin, gender, religion, political or other opinion, disability, age and sexual orientation as
warranted by basic rights enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. We believe diversity of our firm
is central to the success and enables us to deliver better solutions for our clients. We are committed to
creating an inclusive environment and supportive work environment, where everyone feels comfortable to
be themselves and treated with dignity and respect and there is no unlawful discrimination related to
employment, recruitment, training, promotion or remuneration.