Job Description
Lead Data Architect / AWS / Digital Transformation
We are interested in hiring an experienced Data Architect to work closely with this clients Architecture team and stakeholders to create a data culture that changes the way we do business.
What the team are doing
Undergoing a digital transformation, as Principal Data Architect your ideas, skills and voice will shape that transformation and be a key pillar in the business and architectural strategy.
Responsibilities and duties of the Data Architect:
- You will be responsible for the design of a data platform that delivers on stakeholder requirements and aligns with architectural strategy.
- You will work with our software engineering teams to implement the data platform design and report it's progress to the stakeholders.
- You will create a data governance strategy/framework that can be rolled out across our estate
- You will define and align our system boundaries working across teams
- You will be a leader in data culture and a voice of architecture providing direction and guidance on all things data
- You will have experience of using data storage and processing in AWS.
- You will work with DBAs to determine improvements to data structures in SQL Server according to business and technical needs
- You will design a metadata management strategy to optimise change delivery to production,
- encompassing multiple teams with multi-gate approvals
Your experience:
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in a senior data architecture role operating in a public cloud, preferably AWS, solving complex problems.
- In-depth knowledge of up-to-date public cloud technologies that can help solve data management problems and can apply them.
- You actively stay up to date with the latest developments in the field, enjoy being hands-on and creating POCs.
- Ability to create roadmaps for delivery of complex designs delivering incremental value.
- Proven track record of excellent communication with business and technical stakeholders.
Skills & qualifications:
- Highly motivated individual with passion for data and cloud-based technology
- Extensive commercial track record of Architecture experience with at least 3 years in Data Architecture with responsibilities in cloud based data architecture; Data lakes, data warehouses, Data Analytics, Data Engineering.
- Experience in data strategy formulation
- Experience in leading team(s) as a technical lead or architect
- Experience of collaborating across organizational boundaries with both technical and non-technical groups
- Proven ability to communicate complex ideas to varying audiences in both verbal and written form
Lead Data Architect / AWS / Digital Transformation
