Data Architect

Job Description

Data Architect£85k-£100k + Generous Benefits PackageOffice location to choose from: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Wales, Liverpool, Southend, Worthing or SheffieldFlexi Working AvailableFull Time / PermanentAs a trusted, approved and preferred recruitment partner to this prestigious consultancy organisation, we have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a Data Architect. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development, and a covetedpersonalised benefits package.Our client supports flexible and home working, but we are looking for people who are able to travel to client sites, are flexible in terms of assignment location and are prepared to stay away from home if required. We are keen on seeing data architects who have the experience & ability to operate across the data lifecycle, providing enterprise level data architecture solutions for programmes covering cloud migrations, data management, data virtualisation, as well as thecreation of modern data pipelines. You will be helping our clients build world class leading solutions, putting client requirements and industry best practise at the heart of delivery.You will be operating as technical leaders within a project or programme team from the onset of solution design and development through to final delivery and implementation into Live Service. As part of the overall end to end delivery, our data architects oftensupport the development of commercial proposals and additionally will own the technical solution governance at all stages.The workAs a data architect, you will have responsibility for the ownership of the solution design through the delivery phases, be responsible for working through the technical challenges and decisions in partnership with the project and engagement management communitiesto safely deliver the solution into Live operation.You will have experience of a wide range of technologies including public and private cloud business solutions, best practices and modern ways of working. This experience is essential to influence and advise of the most appropriate solution options and to behighly credible with both our clients and senior internal stakeholders.We are keen on seeing candidates with a good mix of the following:* Experience with multiple data storage types and technologies in data warehouse and data lake solutions. Examples include relational DBMS (e.g. Oracle), Hadoop, NoSQL(e.g. Hbase), Columnar DBs (e.g. Amazon Redshift), Graph DBs (e.g. Neo4J), cloud object storage(e.g. Amazon S3), cloud DB as a service (e.g. Amazon RDS)* Understanding of architecture and design concepts for ETL/ELT solutions utilising a range of tooling (examples include Talend, Pentaho DI, Informatica, SAS DI, Java)* Understanding of architecture and design concepts for data exploitation solutions and technologies includes Analytics (e.g. SAS, R), Reporting (e.g. Pentaho Business Analytics, Power BI) & APIs (e.g. Java, Denodo)Demonstrable expertise in the areas of data modelling in large complex IT estates, implementation of multiple data architectures and integration of Data Management/Governance toolingExperience in modern ways of working (examples include Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, Test Automation)* Experience working with On Premise, Cloud, and Hybrid solutions including Cloud Migration programmes.* Able to set direction, technical scope and to build / lead teams of technical individuals and manage their technical deliverables* Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills, in particular for problem solving/troubleshooting activities* Assertiveness in dealing with people at all levels within and outside of the delivery organisation, including partner and client organisations* Issue management, prioritisation and ability to provide pragmatic direction which is consistent with clients longer-term strategy* Able to demonstrate resilience, flexibility and adapt to changing schedules and priorities* Demonstrate knowledge of how to integrate 3rd party products into complex IT estates, manage interdependencies between products and lead end to end delivery in potentially multi-supplier engagementsPlease apply for a full job description.Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est.1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.