Data and Architecture Delivery Lead

at  MetLife

Location(s)

• Posting Location: Sydney, New South Wales
• Posting Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Country
Australia
Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Posted Date
06-Aug-2024
Job ID
3855

BUSINESS NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Understand, and where required, articulate the business situation and problem statement (independently and/or in collaboration with the business, technology and / or data team).
• Determine business needs and drivers through stakeholder consultation and collaboration.
• Understand stated and solicit unstated customer needs enabling the articulation of functional and non-functional business requirements (or user-stories, as applicable).
• Ability to show traceability of business objectives to business requirements.
• Ability to document current and future state processes.
• Prior experience in dealing with a complex technology environment and a large number of intricate data flows (legacy and new systems of record and insight).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

(Listed items are mandatory unless marked “preferred”).

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a Commerce, Business, Technology Statistics, or a related discipline.

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 7 years’ experience:
• Leading teams from 3 to 10 people where direct reports are individual contributors and people leaders.
• Delivery in a waterfall and agile delivery environment (specially Scaled Agile Framework “SAFe”).
• Working in Information Delivery (ID) teams with experience using modern data platforms and tools such as Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Matillion, Microsoft Power BI / Tableau, QlikView, Alteryx.
• Delivery of dimensional data models to support BI and analytics solutions.
• Delivering business intelligence products (operational, management, regulatory) in a run capacity.
• Demonstrable experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Delivering large projects to a defined, scope, time and budget.

KNOWLEDGE

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Understanding of waterfall and agile delivery methodologies.
• Demonstrable experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Knowledge of data management / governance principles and their importance to managing data risk (for MetLife and relationship with regulators).
• Life Insurance or Banking experience including knowledge of financial / actuarial valuation methods and processes (preferred).

SKILLS

• Strong understanding of data modelling, particularly dimensional modelling (Kimball) enabling you to lead the design and build of star schemas to support individual business unit’s needs.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, data integration, and data warehousing concepts.
• Excellent relationship development, management and influencing skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong project management skills including the ability to solicit functional and non-functional requirements (waterfall) / develop user-stories (agile), define the definitions of ready and done and support your team with applicable ceremonies (such as stand-ups, retros).
• Understanding of SQL to support efficient coding standards.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

MetLife Australia is transforming to be a digital data driven organisation. As we transition delivery of a new modern data platform from project into the business, we are seeking an experienced Data and Architecture Delivery Lead to join our team and lead delivery of solutions on our new data platform solution (known as the Data Exchange or “DAX”).
As the Data and Architecture Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of our DAX data platform run and change activities (initiatives and projects). This role requires a collaborative and strategic leader who can work across business, data and technology teams and manage cross-functional teams, manage projects to an agreed scope, time and budget, and ensure the successful implementation of data platform solutions that meet business needs. You will work closely with stakeholders across MetLife (Australia and Asia Region) to align on the business problem / opportunity, activity goals with business objectives, ensuring our data platform capabilities are scalable, reliable, and future-proof with the ability to define the value of activities.