Job ID: 240008BV

Entity: AXA Asian Market

Data Architect:

Can translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations. The data architect is responsible for visualizing and designing an organization’s enterprise data management framework. This framework describes the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge data.

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK).

Objectives of this role

• Designing, creating, deploying, and managing AXA’s data architecture.
• Make sure that data is accessible, secure, and reliable by developing and maintaining data frameworks, models, and policies. 
• Understand the overall data requirements and improve databases to work faster and handle more data efficiently.
• Stay up to date with developments in the data analytics industry

Responsibilities

• Translating business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses
• Defining the data architecture framework, standards, and principles, including modeling, metadata, security, reference data such as product codes and client categories, and master data such as clients, vendors, materials, and employees
• Defining reference architecture, which is a pattern others can follow to create and improve data systems
• Defining data flows, i.e., which parts of the organization generate data, which require data to function, how data flows are managed, and how data changes in transition
• Collaborating and coordinating with multiple departments, stakeholders, partners, and external vendors

Skills and Qualifications

• Must understand the system development life cycle, project management approaches, and requirements, design, and test techniques.
• Understands established data management and reporting technologies, and have some knowledge of columnar and NoSQL databases, predictive analytics, data visualization, and unstructured data.
• Solid understanding of the cloud, databases, and the applications and programs used by those databases.
• Familiarity with the Azure ecosystem, specifically Azure Data Lake Storage (ADL), Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Analysis Services (AAS) and Azure Databricks
• Understand data modeling and design, including conceptualization and database optimization, and demonstrate a commitment to continuing education.
• People skills. Must be articulate, persuasive, and good salespeople, must conceive and portray the big data picture to stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• With 10 years proven work experience as a data architect/engineer or similar role 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Innovative mind with a passion for continuous learning 
• Familiarity with the DAMA-DMBOK framework 
• General knowledge of building a data warehouse
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, mathematics, or related field

Please visit www.axa.com.ph/careers for more information.

A global leader in insurance and investments, AXA takes care of 103 million lives in 64 countries worldwide. We actively invest in pioneering and personalized solutions to meet your ever-changing needs and exceed your expectations. In the Philippines, we are in partnership with Metrobank, one of the country's strongest banks.

Established in 1999, AXA Philippines is one of the largest and fastest growing life insurance companies in the country. It offers financial security to more than one million individuals through its group and individual life insurance as well as general insurance products through its subsidiary Charter Ping An.

AXA Philippines is one of the first to introduce bancassurance operations in the country, and is among the pioneers in the investment-linked insurance sector.

AXA now offers a complete range of products for all its customers’ insurance and financial protection needs, including savings and investments, health plans, income protection, and health coverage; and through its general insurance subsidiary Charter Ping An Insurance Corporation: fire, motor car, marine cargo, personal accident, bonds, casualty, and engineering insurance products.

AXA Philippines closed 2017 with P26.4 billion in total premium income and P5.7 billion in gross written premiums from Charter Ping An. Today, AXA has more than 4,000 financial advisers in 36 branches, and 700 financial executives in over 900 Metrobank and PSBank branches nationwide. Charter Ping An, on the other hand, has 22 branches nationwide and 2,007 agents.

AXA Philippines is a joint venture between the AXA Group, headquartered in France, and the Metrobank Group, one of the largest financial conglomerates in the Philippines.

The Metrobank Group is a conglomerate of industry-leading businesses that includes First Metro Investment Corporation, Metrobank Credit Cards, Federal Land, Toyota, and Manila Doctors Hospital. It was hailed Best Bank in the Philippines in 2010, 2011, and 2012 by Euromoney and recognized as the strongest bank in the Philippines by The Asian Banker in 2013. It is owned by the Ty Family whose major business interests include financial services, real estate development, power, and manufacturing.