Northeast Bank is a full-service community bank and a national commercial real estate lender with offices in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut and California. We are looking for motivated and talented individuals who want to make an impact in a growing company that cares about its employees, customers, and the communities it serves. Northeast Bank provides competitive compensation and benefits, generous PTO, and a hybrid work environment dependent on the role. If you are looking for a growing organization that prioritizes its employees, we encourage you to apply.
POSITION SUMMARY: This is a unique opportunity for a strong technologist to be a founding member of the team building a strategic data and AI platform from scratch for a well-established bank. The Senior Data Architect will be a technically strong, hands-on expert responsible for the design, development, deployment and management of our enterprise data and AI infrastructure. This high-impact role requires deep expertise in modern data warehousing, cloud services, contemporary AI technologies, and a solid understanding of the banking/financial services domain to ensure robust, compliant, and efficient data operations.The ideal candidate will also play a key role in driving the adoption of AI solutions and managing our reporting tools, providing essential support and insights to business users. This position is part of a very lean software engineering team, requiring a versatile individual who can operate across multiple technological and logistical facets of our data and AI platform. The ideal candidate should have an entrepreneurial mindset and be able to operate independently with minimal oversight.
RESPONSIBILITIES:Â
- Design and Development: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and reliable data pipelines and data warehouse solutions using Snowflake and AWS technologies. Design and implement efficient database models, schemas and structures
- Work closely with Business to understand business problems, analyze existing state and data, design and implement strategic Data and AI solutions, and manage the transition
- Translate Business and Product entities toÂ
- Platform Administration: Administer and manage the Snowflake environment, including performance tuning, cost optimization, user access control, user onboarding/offboarding, and workload management to ensure optimal performance and security.
- AI Solution Development: Design, build and implement modern AI solutions (both in-house and third-party), integrated with Snowflake Cortex, Amazon Bedrock and other AI/ML models.
- Data Governance & Compliance: Implement data governance, security protocols, encryption techniques, and access control policies in compliance with banking industry regulations.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including security, IT, and business stakeholders, to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and ensure seamless data operations.
- Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in data management processes, documentation, and data quality metrics, ensuring high data integrity and reliability
- Reporting Tools Management: Manage and support reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools, specifically Sigma, and platforms. Configure custom reports.Â
- User Support and Training: Provide expert support to end-users on reporting tools, data accessibility, and data best practices, empowering them to extract insights and make data-driven decisions.
- Successfully pass technical and regulatory examinations required by the Company.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Minimum of 8+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering and software development
- Proven experience working in the banking or financial services industry.
- 6+ years hands-on experience and advanced-level expertise in Snowflake data warehousing and data platform management.
- 4+ years hands-on experience and advanced-level expertise in AWS cloud services and data-related technologies.
- Proficiency in reporting and BI tools such as Sigma or Omni.
- Experience with programming languages like Python and SQL.
- Experience designing and implementing AI/ML solutions, using AI services like Snowflake Cortex, AWS Bedrock and other modern GenAI models is highly preferred
- Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently and lead complex data projects
- Highly preferred but not mandatory: working knowledge of core banking systems like Jack Henry and Loan Origination Systems like eNcino
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND CONDITIONS:
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
- Some travel is required.
- Must be able to occasionally lift up to 25lbs.
- Consistently operates a computer and other office equipment.
- Climate controlled general office settings with moderate noise level.
- Must express or exchange ideas and meaning with co-workers, supervisors, customers and vendors.
Northeast Bank is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national original, veteran status and any other classification protected by Law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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