IT Architecture Analyst

Short company description

Deutsche Bank has been present in Romania since 1998. It delivers tailor-made products and solutions in Corporate and Investment Banking and Transaction Banking to its corporate and institutional clients as well as Private Wealth Management to private clients.

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank. Its CEE franchise consistently wins the #1 Bank in CEE accolade (Euromoney).

Requirements

• Knowledge of IT delivery and architecture including knowledge of Data Modelling and/or DBA, first experience in application design and programming.
• Relevant Financial Services experience.
• Experience in data and business analysis and design with a cohesive vision of key business data challenges.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment with competing and alternating priorities with a constant focus on delivery.
• Ability to balance business demands and IT fulfilment in terms of standardization, reducing risk and increasing IT flexibility.
• Ability to relate and adapt data-related vision and strategy to the external environment that affects the organization in terms of economic climate, customer market demand, regulation and other legalities, geography, political, culture, labour, technology.

Responsibilities

• Supports in developing data architectures for a business domain / area or project which align with the overall bank-wide data architecture.
• Researches and profiles data sources in data categories of expertise.
• Assists the business in defining data requirements.
• Has a specialist role in one or more data environments like data warehousing, real-time data access, data integration, or messaging.
• Helps to create templates for data deliverables to enhance the productivity of all Data Architects.
• Supports the development of project related data deliverables.
• Plays an active role in data related Communities of Interest and promotes proper data management techniques within the Bank.
• Prepares analysis for the design of the optimum architectures of IT solutions.
• Ensures that architectures of solutions conform to the defined principles, blueprints, standards, patterns, etc., for solution architecture as well as for enterprise architecture.
• Carries out reviews of software designs and documentation.
• Advises the assigned technology initiatives in:
o Undertaking peer reviews of, and reviewing solution architectures and designs, taking into consideration specific business and technical constraints, requirements and dependencies.
o Preparing high-level design documentation and detailed-level design documentation produced by project teams for review and validation.
• Measuring the quality of the solution from an architectural perspective and ensuring the conformance of delivered solutions to predefined quality metrics.
• Analyses level of conformance of solutions to defined solution architecture and Enterprise Architecture principles, blueprints, standards, patterns, etc.
• Analyses level of conformance to defined SDLC processes and reuse of shared enterprise assets where possible.

The IT Architecture Analyst develops and implements architecture guidelines in DB IT projects. It is considered as an entry level role into the IT Architecture profession. The IT Architecture Analyst supports and performs analysis for day to day tasks of the Data and Solution Architects in specific projects.
To support Data Architects, the IT Architecture Analyst mainly performs analysis on planned data flows into and from systems. They also pay attention to the appropriate data stores and access approaches for transactional, reporting and analytical environments. Specifically, the role includes the documentation of data issues arising in a project’s data architecture.
To support Solution Architects, the IT Architecture Analyst provides support in defining solution architectures and high-level software designs, by creating architectural models and the documentation required by the SDLC. Additionally, the IT Architecture Analyst provides support in reviewing the architecture and design of solutions and analyses their conformity to architecture guidelines.
In all their activities, the IT Architecture Analyst is closely guided by more senior IT Architects. The IT Architecture Analyst will have intimate knowledge of the architecture principles and apply them in all their tasks.