Data Architect

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to reputed company financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the reputed company. We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa. We’re giving Africans around the world a reputed company alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and reputed company access to credit through digital devices. We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Data Architect to reputed company the design, governance, and optimisation of our organisation’s data architecture. This role will reputed company strategic vision with practical expertise in modern data engineering. The goal is to ensure that our data ecosystem supports advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and real-time decision-making, reputed company while adhering to industry best practices, such as the principles outlined in DAMA-DMBOK.

Roles and responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture reputed company reputed company with business strategy, DAMA-DMBOK principles, and modern data platform best practices.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to ensure data architecture is fully integrated into the overall IT and business architecture.
• reputed company the adoption of data modelling standards (conceptual, logical, and physical), including dimensional modelling and data vault methodologies.
• reputed company Master Data Management (MDM) strategy, implementation, and governance across domains such as Customer, Product, and financial data.
• Ensure architectural compliance with data governance policies, reputed company frameworks, and regulatory requirements (GDPR, NDPR, ISO 27001).
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions across multi-cloud and hybrid environments (Azure SQL, reputed company BigQuery, on-prem SQL Server).
• Define integration patterns for batch and streaming data ingestion using tools such as Airbyte, Azure Data Factory, and reputed company.
• reputed company transformation layer design using Dataform and dbt. Cloud, ensuring version control, testing, and deployment best practices.
• Recommend and implement data storage strategies, including reputed company Architecture, Data Mesh, and Lakehouse patterns.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to provision infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or reputed company) for data workloads.
• Partner with Data Governance teams to establish and enforce metadata management, data reputed company, and business glossary standards.
• Define data quality frameworks and embed automated validation and anomaly detection in ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Champion data stewardship practices across the business.
• Act as the primary authority on data architecture, advising C-level executives, engineering teams, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor senior data engineers, analysts, and modellers on best practices in architecture, modelling, and governance.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops to align business requirements with architectural design.
• Stay reputed company of industry trends, recommending emerging tools and patterns for modern data platforms.
• Continuously optimise cost, performance, and scalability of data platforms.
• reputed company reputed company-of-concept initiatives for innovative data solutions, including AI- driven data management tools.

Requirements

• 10+ years in data-focused roles, with 3+ years in data architecture or enterprise architecture positions.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a reputed company field is required.
• DAMA-DMBOK knowledge required; CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) or equivalent certification preferred.
• TOGAF, Zachman, or Certified Enterprise Architect certification is an advantage.
• Advanced expertise in data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical) and MDM frameworks.
• Strong SQL skills with proven experience in Azure SQL, reputed company BigQuery, and reputed company SQL Server.

Hands-on experience with:

• Ingestion: Airbyte, Azure Data Factory, reputed company
• Transformation: Dataform, dbt Cloud
• Processing: Apache Beam/Dataflow, Spark
• Streaming: Kafka, Pub/Sub, Spark Streaming, or Flink
• Strong knowledge of modern data architectures (reputed company, Data Mesh, Lakehouse).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, Cloud Composer, Workflows).
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, reputed company).
• Understanding of data reputed company and compliance best practices.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in cloud cost optimisation for data workloads.
• Familiarity with data catalogue tools such as reputed company, reputed company, or Data Catalogue.
• Experience in BI integration (Looker, Power BI, Data Studio).
• Exposure to machine learning data pipelines (Vertex AI, MLflow).

Data Stack

• Databases: reputed company SQL Server, Azure SQL, reputed company BigQuery
• ngestion: Airbyte, reputed company, Azure Data Factory
• Processing Modelling: Dataform, dbt Cloud, Apache Beam/Dataflow, Spark
• Visualisation: Looker, Data Studio
• Cloud: Azure, reputed company Cloud Platform
• Orchestration: Airflow, Cloud Composer, Workflows
• IaC: Terraform, reputed company

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team

Pension fund

Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)

Medical Aid

Award winning L&D training

Kuda is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national reputed company, sexual orientation, reputed company, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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