Data Architect Lead/Agile Program Manager- REMOTE

Halcyon Labs provides outsourcing solutions. Our client companies range from small businesses to large corporations, and we pride ourselves on matching candidates with roles where they can thrive and make a significant impact. About the role: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Architect Lead for our Global Investments strategic program to join our project team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data architecture, investment management domain, technology, data, and with supporting large technology implementation projects. The position would work closely with both development teams and Mercer investments data team. Focus on software development life cycle, you will collaborate with our Head of Technology Strategy, Head of Data, Solution Architects, Data Analysts, Data Team, and Portfolio Delivery function Leads to understand customer and technical needs to design and implement the Global Investment data platform, including Persistence, Integration and Services layers of the business solutions in compliance with architecture principles and standards followed by MMC technology. You will coordinate with business and technology team leads for the creation and maintenance of the LOB standardized interface layer as well as data model and catalog. You will form part of the Pod Leadership team tasked with bringing your architectural vision to fruition utilizing agile methodologies and assist the senior pod lead with the day to day oversight of the development team. You will elaborate your architecture designs and collaborate with our infrastructure and development teams to enable implementation of them with light touch oversight. We in Product Delivery Engineering are on a mission: to transform the way our Mercer business and IT teams work together to unlock the benefits of rapid delivery of quality, secure software to market by empowered teams. We will do this by rolling out our Agile at Scale Delivery model. You will oversee teams and will be responsible for their delivery of working software through to production. Responsibilities: Work with our partners to understand business and technology problems and/or opportunities Partner strongly with the head of data and the data team and data analysts. The head of data and data team will be responsible for setting a large amount of the requirements, but will hold short on technical design and physical modeling which this role will need to elaborate on. Provide guidance and governance on standardized business logical data models, component re-use and platform modernization with an eye to designing business friendly views of data to empower citizen data scientists and BI users to leverage the data platform. Lead the data design track, document and communicate solution that accommodate the Agile Principles of fail fast and provide the resilience necessary to accommodate changing and fluid requirements In partnership with the data team, assist in the implementation of Data Governance Standards and Processes; partner with business stakeholders to establish a cadence in the upkeep of their information assets Establish data domains for the Wealth/Global Investments business for reuse, standardization and security-by-design into your designs to simplify, secure and enable accelerated solution delivery. Assist in the establishment of a self-governance operating model to manage data models and catalogs for the wealth/global investments business. Bring a shift left mentality in maintenance of the business data terms, critical data elements as well as business rules. Introduce learning capsules to enable self service capabilities for management of business data catalog and allied assets Be innovative in your design thinking and use your expertise to influence the MMC technology roadmap Take your architectural designs through our on boarding processes to ensure they meet MMCs standards and conventions Participate in architecture reviews as part of MMCs Architecture Assurance process Support the implementation of architectural designs from infrastructure set up through to delivery as necessary Empower the development teams to deliver your architectural designs with a light touch approach Be an involved member in our technology community, championing the latest technologies and trends within MMC and the wider industry, sharing your knowledge, successes and learnings with your colleagues. Run the software delivery Pod ensuring there are smooth and efficient processes for getting software through from requirements to working in production focussing on value creation, growth and serving customers Makes outcomes that leads to project success, and work with Product Owner and Business Analysts to help project team prioritize and groom backlog in order to deliver an Alpha early, then continue to deliver value often throughout the project lifecycle to staging and production environments. You will have an Enterprise mind-set able to foster collaborati