Data Architect

5 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa PayFast Full time

Payfast by Network, together with the DPO Group, is one of the leading Fintech organisations in Africa. We’re on a mission to exponentially grow the digital economy of Africa by building world-class payment products. Developed in-house, our solutions enable customers to make and receive business payments quickly and securely and allow enterprises to trade locally, across borders, and internationally.

We are on the hunt for Data Architect reporting to the Architecture Manager.

**About the team**

Our team is dynamic and works in all spheres of the business, focusing mainly on delivering robust cloud solutions for our business systems. We are a group of fast-thinking solution-driven individuals that are passionate about getting the best performance out of our systems being utilized by our merchants and their customers.

**About you**

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

- Get energised by a fast-paced environment
- Cherish a good work-life balance
- Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
- Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
- Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
- Don’t need to be micromanaged
- Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
- Welcome change and new ideas
- Value the importance of diversity

**What you'll be doing**
- Developing and implementing an overall organizational data strategy that is in line with business processes. The strategy includes data model designs, database development standards, implementation and management of data warehouses and data analytics systems
- Identifying data sources, both internal and external, and working out a plan for data management that is aligned with organizational data strategy
- Coordinating and collaborating with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and vendors for the smooth functioning of the enterprise data system
- Prepare accurate database design and architecture reports for management and executive teams
- Recommend solutions to improve new and existing database systems
- Design conceptual and logical data models and flowcharts
- Improve system performance by monitoring, conducting tests, troubleshooting, and integrating new features
- Defining and managing the flow of data
- Integrating technical functionality, ensuring data accessibility, accuracy, and security
- Conducting a continuous audit of data management system performance
- Define security and backup procedures
- Provide Data Architecture (DA) support for the Data Engineering team.
- Strong documentation of DA for new data sources, metadata, and productionized information flow
- Define DA for the Data Science teams and participate in review and walk-through sessions for model fit.
- Assist with the definition of custom meta data models for ELT/ETL
- Define data mapping and transformation rules between source and data warehouse.
- Assess database implementation procedures to ensure they comply with internal and external regulations
- Coordinate with the data science department to identify future needs and requirement

Technical skills core:

- Documentation using Confluence/Wiki
- Solution design and system analysis
- Data profiling
- Strong communicator verbally and in writing
- Expert database knowledge in SQL
- Modern data warehouse design skills
- Exceptional data modelling skills i.e., physical, dimensional, and relational 3N forms.
- DevOps/DataOps and CI/CD experience

**What you'll need**
- BSc Computer Science, BCom Informatics, Engineering or similar, preference is a bachelor’s degree
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role
- 3+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience (using RDBMS, NoSQL, and ETL)
- Experience working with AWS
- Strong knowledge of database structure systems and data mining
- Strong organizational and analytical abilities
- Strong communication skills
- Self-starter
- A passion for data and documentation of solutions
- Strong analytical and critical thinker
- Willingness to learn and grow.
- Ability to work cohesively in a team environment and balance multiple priorities.
- A team player who can work alone when required and without supervision.
- High level of attention to detail, resilience, enthusiasm, energy, and drive
- Positive, can-do attitude

While not required, it’ll probably help if you have some knowledge of fintech, and an interest in entrepreneurship and startups would be beneficial. But don’t worry, there’s no need to be a unicorn as we’ll offer onboarding assistance.

**About us**

PayFast was founded in 2007 and has grown into one of South Africa’s leading online payment gateways. The DPO Group, which includes DPO Africa, PayGate, PayFast and SiD Instant EFT, is the largest and the fastest-growing African payment service provider, operating in 21 countries and working with more than 60,000 active merchants across the continent. In 2021, DPO Group was acquired by Network Internati

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