SC Senior Data Technical Architect
On site
Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Freelance
30-10-2024
Job Specifications
Role Title:Senior Data/Technical Architect
Duration:contract to run until 31/03/2025
Location:Remote, with potential occasional travel to Newcastle once a month
Rate:up to £624.27 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Clearance required:Active SC
Role purpose/summary
This role is seeking an architect familiar with the technical designs and implementation of basic, enterprise-level data capability (ingestion; lake, warehouse, and lakehouse implementation; obfuscation and PII data handling; and onward use via data pipelines, ETL, etc.). Must be able to interpret and generate architectural designs, bring knowledge and experience around implementations and pitfalls, and strength in explaining, evidencing, and advocating for a solution design directly with clients. Proficiency in AWS (S3, EMR, Lambda, and related ecosystem), as well as Databricks will be key in this effort. Familiarity translating designs to engineering as well as non-technical stakeholders and review boards will be needed as well.
Key Skills/requirements
Help chief data architects to interpret an organisation's needs
Design data models and metadata systems
Provide oversight and advice to other data architects who are designing and producing data artefacts
Design and support the management of data dictionaries
Make sure that your teams are working to the standards set for the organisation by the chief data architects
Work with technical architects to make sure that an organisation's systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture
Listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them
Effectively manage stakeholder expectations
Manage active and reactive communication
Support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders
Understand the appropriate media to communicate findings
Shape communications for the audience
Undertake data profiling and source system analysis
Present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data
Evolve and define data governance
Take responsibility for supporting and collaborating around wider governance
Assure and integrate data services to meet the needs of multiple business services
Work proactively to ensure the organisation designs architecture that considers data
Understand the impact on the organisation of emerging trends in data tools, analysis techniques and data usage
Produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas
Explain which models to use for which purpose
Understand industry-recognised Datamodelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them
Compare and align different data models
Develop and set data standards across multiple subject areas
Act as the escalation point for breaches of data standards and make recommendations about how the organisation should resolve them
Design an appropriate metadata repository
Suggest changes to improve current metadata repositories
Understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata
Advise less experienced members of the team about metadata management
Ensure that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems
Co-ordinate the team to investigate problems, implement solutions and take preventive measures
Work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals
Contribute to the development of strategy and policies
Design data architecture that deals with problems spanning different business areas
Identify links between problems to devise common solutions
Work across multiple subject areas, or a single large or complicated subject area
Produce appropriate patterns Key Technical Skills
Has experience working with Data capabilities architecture and patterns - lakes, warehouse and cloud
environments for data analysis/calculations
Use strategic patterns to build out an approach and architectural diagram of a solution
Work within an engineering team to guide team members on the best approach to take
AWS focused
Knowledge of Databricks and EMR
Knowledge of Kafka
Good communication and stakeholder management skills
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
About the Company
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