Data Archival lead (26-04245) -

Role Overview

We are seeking experienced Data Archival professionals to lead the design and implementation of an enterprise-grade archival solution on Platform 3 (Archon). Product-specific training on Archon will be provided; the role demands strong foundations in enterprise data archival, ETL design, and data-platform architecture. Scope spans end-to-end delivery — from source-system discovery and retention-rule design, through platform setup, ETL build, archival execution, validation, and operational handover. Candidates will work across Production and Non-Production environments, deliver Warm and Cold archival tiers (with de-identification), and align the solution to enterprise security and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design

• Define end-to-end archival architecture on Platform 3 (Archon), including Archon Data Store (ADS), Archon ETL, and Archon Analyzer components.
• Design Warm Archive, Cold Archive (de-identified), and Data Bunker tiers in line with retention, legal-hold, and WORM compliance requirements.
• Translate business retention, privacy, and regulatory policies into archival rules, data classification, tier-mapping logic, and de-identification/tokenization strategies.
• Produce reference architecture, data flow, integration, and security design artifacts aligned to the customer's System Security Plan (SSP).
• Define retrieval patterns – predefined SQL/reports via the Archon UI, distributed query (Trino/Spark) and API-based access where required.

Implementation & Delivery

• Lead Platform 3 (Archon) setup and configuration across Production and Non-Production environments, including DR (and HA where in scope).
• Design and oversee build of archival ETL pipelines using Archon native ETL – extraction, transformation, indexing, and load into ADS.
• Drive source-system connectivity, schema discovery, and dependency mapping using Archon Analyzer.
• Own pilot execution on a defined data subset, then scale-up to full archival of in-scope source systems.
• Lead data validation, reconciliation, volumetric verification, and source-system archival sign-off.

Performance, Monitoring & Issue Resolution

• Develop monitoring dashboards and operational reports for archival jobs, ETL pipelines, and storage tiers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across Archon ETL pipelines, archival workflows, source-system connectivity, and retrieval performance.
• Define SLAs, alerting thresholds, and run-book remediation steps for common failure modes; drive root-cause analysis for Sev1/Sev2 issues.

Governance, Compliance & Stakeholder Management

• Ensure archival design meets regulatory, audit, and information-governance requirements applicable to the customer's industry.
• Partner with customer Architecture, Security, Compliance, Database Administrators (DBAs), application owners, IT infrastructure teams, and SMEs; represent delivery in design and architecture reviews.
• Define monitoring, runbooks, documentation, and knowledge-transfer artifacts; support warranty and operational handover.
• Provide technical guidance and structured training to stakeholders – DBAs, application owners, operations, and business users – on archival processes, retrieval workflows, and post-archival access patterns.
• Identify and manage technical risks; drive Change Control where scope or assumptions shift.

Required Technical Skills

Note

Platform 3 (Archon) product training will be provided. Prior Archon experience is desirable but not mandatory; strong fundamentals in data archival, ETL, and lakehouse / data-platform architecture are essential.

Data, Cloud & Integration

• Strong SQL and relational database expertise – DB2, Oracle, SQL Server (and ideally mainframe / AS-400 data sources).
• Solid grounding in data warehousing, data lakehouse, and ELT/ETL design patterns; familiarity with Parquet/ORC, Iceberg/Delta, and metadata-driven ingestion.
• Experience with Azure cloud storage (Blob, ADLS Gen2) for archival workloads – tiering, lifecycle policies, and cost optimization; AWS S3 exposure is a plus.
• Working knowledge of authentication / authorization patterns (SSO, SAML/OIDC), encryption in transit and at rest (AES-256, KMS), and secure credential handling.
• Comfort with REST APIs, file-based and CDC-based extraction patterns, and integration with downstream consumers (e.g., MuleSoft, iPaaS).

Governance, Compliance & Security

• Strong understanding of data retention, legal hold, audit trails, and information lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks relevant to archival – GLBA, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, NAIC Model Regulation #672, state record-retention requirements, and PII/PHI handling.
• Experience implementing WORM compliance, chain-of-custody controls, and role-based access for archived data.

Prior Archival / Decommissioning Implementation Experience

Candidates must be able to demonstrate hands-on delivery on at least one – preferably multiple – prior archival or application decommissioning programs.

Specifically

• End-to-end delivery of one or more enterprise archival / decommissioning programs (preferably 2+ for Senior Architect).
• Experience archiving from at least two of the following source-system families: mainframe (AS/400, COBOL/DB2, VSAM), legacy ERP (SAP ECC, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Lotus Notes), legacy policy administration / closed-block insurance systems, healthcare EHR, custom RDBMS-based applications.
• Demonstrable volume handled – ideally TB-scale archival, with clear evidence of volumetric estimation, throughput tuning, and reconciliation.
• Prior use of one or more archival tools – Archon / Platform 3 (strongly preferred), Informatica ILM, OpenText InfoArchive, Solix EDMS, Archive360, IBM Optim, or equivalent. Cross-tool experience (e.g., migrating off legacy archival tools onto Archon) is a strong plus.
• Experience defining and operationalising retention rule sets, legal-hold workflows, and de-identification rules in production.
• Track record of successful pilot-to-scale transitions, including go/no-go criteria, defect triage, and sign-off governance.
• Exposure to post-archival application retirement / decommissioning sequencing – including infrastructure shutdown, license recovery, and audit closure.

Soft Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication – able to author design documents, runbooks, and present to customer architecture forums.
• Stakeholder management across business, application, security, and compliance teams.
• Structured problem-solving with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous, multi-stakeholder environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on or familiarity with Platform 3 (Archon) components – Archon Data Store (ADS) lakehouse, Archon native ETL, Archon Analyzer (source-system discovery), Archon Data Bunker (air-gapped isolation, tokenization), and Archon UI / Trino-Spark-based retrieval.
• Insurance domain experience, preferably Life & Annuity (L&A) and closed-block administration.
• Exposure to modern Life & Annuity policy administration platforms (e.g., Verisk FAST, Oracle OIPA, LifePRO) as archival source systems.
• Certification in Archon, Informatica ILM, or equivalent archival / ETL tooling.
• Exposure to Gartner-recognised archival platforms and broader information-governance tooling (Collibra, Alation) is a plus.