Data Optimization Jobs in Ohio (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to fostering the stability and efficiency of the nation's financial systems. They are seeking a Senior Data Architect or Data Architect Lead to lead design and architecture decisions for complex product development initiatives, focusing on modernizing data analytics assets and transitioning to cloud-native designs.
Responsibilities:
• Accountable for selecting design patterns, technologies, and solution architectures for product development projects by analyzing business, technical, and enterprise requirements to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and industry best practices.
• Engages with business areas, clients, and stakeholders as a trusted consultant to identify gaps, present solution options, and recommend optimal technologies; documents architecture decisions and technical standards to support knowledge sharing.
• Champions complex, strategic enterprise solutions by communicating architecture decisions and technical concepts effectively across all organizational levels, from technical teams to senior management.
• Refines and supports a portfolio-wide data optimization strategy to further align existing assets to the new, cloud-native architecture.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams throughout the full development lifecycle, including ideation, development, integration, testing, and production support.
• Researches and evaluates emerging technologies and industry trends; develops strategic recommendations for architecture investments that reduce cost, increase security, eliminate redundancies, and improve system flexibility.
• Builds and maintains strategic relationships with key technology vendors and business partners to stay current on industry developments and enterprise architecture landscape shifts.
• Owns the data infrastructure strategy and roadmap; assesses current state, identifies gaps, and drives architectural initiatives and monitoring solutions from planning through implementation.
• Establishes, enforces, and evolves data governance policies, quality frameworks, and compliance practices to ensure data integrity, security, accuracy, and regulatory adherence across critical systems.
• Collaborates with data stewards, compliance teams, and technical leads to translate governance and regulatory requirements into technical controls, validation rules, access policies, and audit mechanisms.
• Assists in establishing a flexible and valuable portfolio-level data catalog that will drive transparency and promote reusability.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Candidates must be a U.S. citizen.
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of professional work experience or Master’s degree and 3 years of professional work experience for Data Architect Senior.
• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of related work experience or Master’s degree and 5 years of related work experience for Data Architect Lead.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing complex, production-grade systems.
• Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional environments.
• Deep experience designing distributed systems, microservices, API architectures, and cloud-native applications.
• Understanding of payment systems, regulatory requirements, and banking technology landscape.
• Expertise in web, mobile, and backend architectures with strong grasp of scalability, security, and performance patterns.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), containerization, CI/CD (e.g., GitLab), and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CDK or Terraform).
• Proficiency in data modeling, integration patterns, and database technologies (relational and NoSQL).
• Working knowledge of TOGAF, C4, AWS Well-Architected Framework or similar architecture analysis and documentation approaches.
Company:
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland was established in 1914 as a part of the Federal Reserve System Founded in 1914, the company is headquartered in Cleveland, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.