DATA ARCHITECT
POSITION PURPOSE
The Data Architect is a critical founding role responsible for transforming Mocse's data from a fragmented resource into a strategic asset. This role will establish automated reporting capabilities, build data governance foundations, develop advanced analytics, and drive continuous experimentation and optimization. This is a high-impact, high-visibility position reporting to the Vice President of Performance and Risk and working closely with executive leadership to make Mocse a truly data-driven organization.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Data Access & Reporting
- Automated Reporting & Analytics
- Design, develop, and automate reports that deliver critical information to operational groups and provide analytics and KPIs for leadership
- Reduce report turnaround times and enable self-service access to data
- Create and maintain dashboards for executives, department heads, and business users
- Establish refresh schedules and monitoring procedures for all reporting
- Migrate and optimize reports as systems and platforms evolve
- Data Integration & Management
- Integrate disparate data sources across multiple database platforms (core banking, lending platform, digital platform, card systems)
- Create direct connections to source systems and build automated data pipelines
- Design standardized data models for member, account, and transaction entities
- Determine appropriate software tools based on assignment goals
- Document all transformations, data lineage, and business rules
Data Governance & Quality
- Data Documentation & Governance
- Catalog and document data sources, definitions, and business rules across all systems
- Assess and monitor data quality; identify and resolve data issues
- Support the Data Governance Council and implement governance policies
- Develop and maintain data classification schema and access control principles
- Ensure compliance with NCUA, FFIEC, CCPA, GLBA, and Right to Financial Privacy Act requirements
- Draft and maintain documentation of procedures for generating reports and accessing data
Advanced Analytics & Insights
- Strategic Analysis & Predictive Analytics
- Research and analyze data trends to identify areas of opportunity and inform strategic decision-making
- Develop predictive models for member churn, loan default risk, fraud detection, and lifetime value
- Create member segmentation and personalization analytics for targeted marketing
- Build operational intelligence including anomaly detection, process optimization, and forecasting
- Perform demographic and geographic analysis to contribute to operations and marketing planning
- Risk Management & Fraud Analytics
- Develop real-time fraud monitoring dashboards and transaction anomaly detection
- Create member risk segmentation and geographic risk analysis
- Support compliance reporting and audit requirements
- Monitor data security and privacy controls
- Member Experience Analytics
- Build 360-degree member views combining all product relationships
- Develop member journey analytics across channels
- Create churn prediction and early warning indicators
- Analyze product affinity and identify cross-sell opportunities
- Track member satisfaction, NPS, and experience metrics
- Operational Efficiency Analytics
- Measure process cycle times (loan approval, account opening, etc.)
- Analyze channel utilization and cost per transaction
- Track employee productivity metrics and branch performance
- Monitor system performance and data quality dashboards
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
- Business Partnership & Requirements Gathering
- Work directly with stakeholders to identify analytical needs
- Translate business problems into data solutions
- Regularly update stakeholders on progress and recommend improvements
- Synthesize, visualize, and communicate complex information to diverse audiences
- Assist teams with targeting and campaign analytics
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Platform Optimization & Experimentation
- Continuously optimize analytics platform performance and cost efficiency
- Experiment with new analytical techniques, tools, and methodologies
- Expand data integration and real-time capabilities as business needs evolve
- Develop APIs for data access by applications
- Stay current on BI tools, analytics best practices, and industry trends
Professional Development & Collaboration
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- Enhance job performance by applying up-to-date professional and technical knowledge gained through training, publications, and professional relationships
- Participate in committee, community, and group projects as assigned
- Mentor others and build data literacy across the organization
- Contribute to attaining Credit Union objectives by accomplishing related results as assigned.