Enterprise Data Architect - Singapore - DFS Group

DFS Group

Verified Company

Singapore

1 week ago

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Wei Jie

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Description

DFS Group is the world's leading luxury travel retailer.

Established in Hong Kong in 1960, DFS Group continues to be a pioneer in global luxury travel retail, offering its customers a carefully curated selection of exceptional products from over 750 of the most desired brands.

Its network consists of 54 duty free stores located in 13 major global airports and 23 downtown Galleria locations on four continents, as well as affiliate and resort locations.

The Group is privately held and majority owned by the world's largest luxury conglomerate, Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH).

At DFS, we're embarking on an exciting digital and technology transformation journey to reimagine the future of luxury travel retail and deliver amazing experiences for our customers, brands, and partners - a DFS 2.0 powered by data, digital and technology." As part of the journey, CTO team would be building together the next generation technology foundation for DFS - a 100% cloud company to scale, best in class networks worldwide to run, seamless high performing workplace and employee experiences to create, architecture and engineering at the core to guide, and innovations around retail to transform.

In this role we are looking for an enterprise data architect to lead the DFS data architecture roadmap across new and legacy technology areas through collaboration with Business Partners, Solution Architects, Business Analysts, and partners like Microsoft and Alibaba team to drive the business value by building the scalable data platform and improve data quality, security & performance.

If you are passionate about the data platform and governance around data and want to be part of developing the data-driven culture, then we are looking for you

Responsibilities:

Define data platform architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices; build a framework of principles to ensure data integrity across the business (including but not limited to DFS digital channels, ERP, CRM, Data Lakehouse, Data Fabric, external interfaces, etc.)
Build and maintain appropriate Enterprise Architecture artefacts.
Design and develop the architecture roadmap for big data cloud platforms for China and Global.
Architect the data platform for DFS, leveraging cloud native services and capabilities following best practices from industry and guidance/standards from LVMH group.
Design data models and associated metadata for mission critical and highvolume data systems, realtime and distributed data processing systems, data lakes/data warehouse.
Work with agile product teams in the overall IT solution focusing on the data, with the responsibility to ensure successful product design and implementation in terms of data platform integrations, data flow, database selections (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cosmos, Redis, Mongo, ElasticSearch, etc.)
Leading the teams to conceptualize, build and maintain the Data Infrastructure for relational as well as Big Data Infrastructure to deliver a highperformance Data Environment to process Retail, Digital, Supply Chain, and Customer Data from various partners.
Being responsible for Infrastructure Performance and data Security Management as well as design, architecture, implementation, and documentation.
Work with Data Platform team, Data Scientist, Business Consultant and Data engineers to build scalable Data Analytics Apps using advanced analytics.
Navigate challenges in terms of uncertainty and focus on delivering high value at any given time
Communicate risks and issues to different stakeholders including senior/executive management

Key Requirements:

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent
Min. 68+ years of experience in data platform cloud architecture
68 years handson experience and a passion for data architecture in a big data environment, data warehousing, ETL processes and related services as well as experience and a very good understanding of supporting technologies such as data factory, data lake, MapReduce, and other analytics products
35 years experiences architecting big data solutions on Azure & Alibaba leveraging cloud native services (i.e., PaaS).
Database technology & experiences
MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Redis, Cosmos DB, Mango, ES, Snowflake, Synapse
35 years of designing and implementing Data Governance tools from a business perspective
Proven experience of cross functional leadership in complex organizations with strong emphasis on influencing and collaboration
Teach, mentor, and provide value on a consistent basis to stakeholders
Ability to translate strategy into an operational plan and can execute delivering consistent value to DFS
Good experience in Database Technologies, like SQL and Big Data Technologies and Database Performance Tuning

DFS is an equal opportunity employer. It is the Company's policy and practice to employ, promote and treat all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications and