Data Architect

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Tri City National Bank is your hometown bank. We believe in putting customers first, building relationships, and fostering a sense of community. We work in a team environment with opportunities for hard workers to grow personally and professionally. We enjoy celebrating success and great benefits along the way. Most importantly, we believe superior customer service paired with the right banking solutions help our customers and businesses fulfill their financial dreams, and our communities grow.

The Data Architect is a strategic support role responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s enterprise data management strategy. Reporting to the Director of IT, this role will define and drive standards, policies, and architectural practices for data access, modeling, stewardship, categorization, quality, archival, and destruction. The Data Architect will serve as the organizational authority on data architecture, owning database platform strategy and participating in enterprise governance through the Architectural Review Board.

This role will collaborate across technical and business domains to ensure data is managed as a strategic asset, with a strong emphasis on governance across SaaS platforms and third-party data processors.

Compensation: $150,000+ annually depending on experience.

Location: In-office at our Operations Center in West Allis, WI.

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the current data environment and maturity.
• Deliver a multi-year data strategy including prioritized recommendations, implementation timeline, and required resources.
• Provide data governance thought leadership.
• Build and coordinate the future data management organization. This may include shaping potential staffing needs.

• Develop and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy, including standards for data access, modeling, categorization, stewardship, and quality.
• Own the architectural design of database platforms, including redundancy, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Participate in the Architectural Review Board as the data management representative.
• Recommend and guide the adoption of supporting tools for data inventory, modeling, categorization, and quality assurance.
• Establish architectural standards that apply across both on-premises and SaaS-hosted data environments.

• Lead efforts to inventory and categorize data stored in SaaS applications and cloud platforms.
• Track and document data processors and sub-processors handling corporate data to meet regulatory obligations.
• Define governance policies for data shared with third-party applications, ensuring visibility and control over sensitive information.
• Collaborate with Information Security and Compliance teams to align SaaS data governance with enterprise risk and regulatory frameworks.

• Define and implement policies and procedures for data archival and destruction, including unstructured data across the corporate network.
• Co‑lead efforts to track and manage sensitive data shared with third‑party and cloud‑based applications.
• Establish standards and constraints to guide the Business Intelligence team, while maintaining separation from BI execution.

• Facilitate the development of a data stewardship program by partnering with business departments and subject matter experts.
• Serve as a key contributor to corporate projects involving the creation, modification, or destruction of sensitive data.
• Collaborate with Information Security, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and compliance requirements.

• Review database design decisions to ensure solutions exhibit data storage and access that is secure, recoverable, performant, scalable, and maintainable.
• Provide recommendations or, where applicable, implement enhancements that enhance data security, access performance, and platform reliability.
• Support regulatory data…