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About your role:

At Fiserv, we are dedicated to transforming financial services technology to benefit our clients. As an Architect – Data Products, you will define and lead the architecture of scalable, secure, and reliable data products that power analytics, reporting, and data delivery for our clients. You will partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to design modern cloud data platforms, set technical standards, and ensure our data products meet quality, performance, and SLA commitments.

What you’ll do:

• Define the end-to-end architecture for data products, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and delivery on cloud data platforms.
• Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to translate requirements into data models, technical designs, and delivery roadmaps.
• Design and oversee scalable batch and streaming pipelines using Databricks, Spark, and Azure data services.
• Design AI-ready data products and platform capabilities that support machine learning and generative AI use cases, including feature engineering, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Establish standards for data quality, security, access control, lineage, and metadata management across data products.
• Lead platform modernization and migration initiatives, ensuring client data delivery meets performance and SLA commitments.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews, and drive engineering best practices, automation (including AI-assisted development), and release quality controls.
• Mentor data engineers and provide technical guidance to cross-functional and vendor teams.

Experience you’ll need to have:

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or software development
• 5+ years of experience designing and building data platforms or data products at enterprise scale
• 4+ years of experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake or similar lakehouse technologies
• 4+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP data services
• 4+ years of experience with SQL, Python or Scala, and data modeling (dimensional, relational, and lakehouse)
• 3+ years of experience with data governance, security, and access control practices
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Agile methodologies
• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or an equivalent combination of education, work, and/or military experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• Experience in the financial services industry
• Experience with Unity Catalog, data mesh, or streaming technologies such as Kafka or Spark Structured Streaming
• Experience enabling AI/ML and generative AI solutions on Databricks or similar platforms, such as feature stores, vector databases, or RAG pipelines
• Experience leading large-scale data platform migrations and client data delivery with SLA commitments
• Databricks, Azure, or AWS architecture certifications

How you’ll work:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.

Travel:

• Approximately 10% travel off-site or to other office locations is expected.

Sponsorship:

• You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered.

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Salary Range

These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

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Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. 

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