Senior Manager - Enterprise Data Architect

Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is internal solution partner for METRO, a €30.5 Billion international wholesaler with operations in 31 countries through 625 stores & a team of 93,000 people globally. Metro operates in a further 10 countries with its Food Service Distribution (FSD) business and it is thus active in a total of 34 countries.

MGSC, location wise is present in Pune (India), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland). We provide HR, Finance, IT & Business operations support to 31 countries, speak 24+ languages and process over 18,000 transactions a day. We are setting tomorrow’s standards for customer focus, digital solutions, and sustainable business models. For over 10 years, we have been providing services and solutions from our two locations in Pune and Szczecin. This has allowed us to gain extensive experience in how we can best serve our internal customers with high quality and passion. We believe that we can add value, drive efficiency, and satisfy our customers.

Website: https://www.metro-gsc.in
Company Size: 600-650
Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Type: Privately Held
Inception:  2011

Role & Responsibility:

• Own the data Architecture Principles; enterprise data flow, know how on enterprise data objects and their dependency to business processes;
• Contribute to the Data Strategy;
• Co-own the enterprise data model on the Conceptional Level;
• Own the enterprise data model on Logical Level;
• Consult and oversee solution architect on the Physical Level;
• Collaborate with data governance, Quality, Security, Privacy to define the data architectural principles.
• Should Be able to communicate the value of data on all levels and be actively shaping how Metro is handling data today and tomorrow;
• Have strong communication skills as a key task is to connect people from different business units and different roles;
• Be able to work conceptually and be able to communicate the impact of this type of work;
• Be able to define and foster data architecture principles;
• Own enterprise data flow (safeguard + design new when tech is introduced/decommissioned), know and understand enterprise data objects and the processes that are supported by data, design migration strategy in large scale projects
• Collaborate with business process architects and enterprise architecture to define the data architecture principles and act as quality gate in change and run the business;

• Bachelors in the domain of computer science. 
• Have minimum 10+ years of experience in the data field (engineering and data architecting);
• Have minimum 2 years of experience in the position of Enterprise Data Architect or minimum 3 years experience in the position of Data Architect conducting large data transformation programs;
• Have a considerable interest in the business processes and business challenges a company like Metro is facing; experience in the wholesale/retail domain is a plus but not mandatory;
• Have deep knowledge in data processing technologies; data models and interdependencies between data objects;
•  Understanding /know how of different database technologies and public cloud Have a consulting mindset;
• Should be familiar with agile software delivery by teams across various locations.