Data Architect - DV cleared

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Description

Data Architect- DV cleared

Contract Inside IR35

Up to £900 per day via umbrella

WFH/Travel to client offices when required

Summary of Position
My client was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. They build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Their proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

As a Data Architect you will have a senior role which will take you across multiple projects and platforms within the my clients customer base. You will have an exceptional understanding of IT data platforms with the ability to build effective working relationships with both team members and end customers.

Duties & Responsibilities-
You will have experience in designing and building data models to fulfil the strategic data needs of our customers as defined by the CTO and Chief Data Architect. You will have extensive experience of and be expected to:
Design data models and metadata systems and help chief data architects to interpret business needs.
Provide oversight and advice to other data architects who are undertaking the design of data models and support the management of data dictionaries.
Ensure that your teams are working to the standards set for the organization by the Chief Data Architect.
Work with technical architects to ensure that systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture.

Core Competencies-
Technical Competencies. You are to have the following technical competencies and expertise:
o Delivery. Designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions.
o Data. Solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology.
o Cloud. Hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform, both their services' and how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach.
o Security. Having worked in sensitive data environments and ideally have experience facing off to cyber security specialists.
o Sector. Initial target sectors and key areas of focus for sales growth are public sector and financial services.

Experience Required. In order of priority, qualitative criteria are concerned with credibility, ability, experience and personality:
Communication skills. You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them. You can manage stakeholder expectations and be flexible. You know how to manage proactive and reactive communication. You can facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
Data analysis and synthesis. You can undertake data profiling and source system analysis. You can present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data.
Data communication. You understand the appropriate mediums to communicate findings; you can shape communications for the audience.
Data governance. You can evolve and define data governance, and take responsibility for collaborating and supporting in wider governance. You know how to assure and integrate data services to meet the needs of multiple business services. You work proactively to ensure the organisation designs architecture that considers data.
Data innovation. You understand the impact of emerging trends on the organisation in data tools, analysis techniques and data usage.
Datamodelling. You understand the concepts and principles of Datamodelling and can produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas. You know how to reverse-engineer data models from a live system. You understand industry recognised Datamodelling patterns and standards and know when to apply them. You can compare and align different data models.
Data standards. You can develop and set data standards across multiple subject areas. You can act as the escalation point for breaches of data standards and make recommendations about how the organisation should resolve that breach.
Metadata management. You can design an appropriate metadata repository and present changes to existing metadata repositories. You understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata. You can provide oversight and advice to more inexperienced members of the team.
Problem resolution (data). You can ensure that the most appropriate actions are taken to resolve problems as they occur. You coordinate teams to resolve problems and implement solutions and preventative measures.
Strategic thinking (data architecture). You work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals.
Turning business problems into data design. You can design data architecture by dealing with problems that span different business areas. You can draw links between problems in order to reach common solutions. You can work across multiple subject areas, a single large or complicated subject area.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months
From
ARM (Advanced Resource Managers)
Published at
30.07.2021
Project ID:
2174533
Contract type
Freelance
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