Data Architect - Cloud
Hybrid/Flexible working - local office options in Surrey, Lancashire, Hampshire or Monmouthshire
Salary negotiable to £73,000 DoE
Job Ref J12870
Ability to pass Security Clearance essential
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Data Architect to join an expanding data team that enables the organisation to become more effective through exploitation of data capabilities. Through your knowledge of enterprise data architecture you will influence and shape the cloud data architecture across the organisation.
What you’ll be doing:
- Responsible for designing and analysing data & analytics (D&A) cloud-based architecture that ensures efficient data management
- Supports the cloud data strategy, considering people, product, partners, and processes, collaborating with senior stakeholders across the business to understand the evolving data needs of the organisation
- Liaises with the product suppliers, COTS component vendors and sub-contract development teams ensuring alignment to the Data Technology roadmap
- Works jointly across enterprise architecture to inform, develop and design cloud data solutions that supports business strategy, requirements, and changes in capabilities
- Ensure strategy architectures are in alignment with data architecture, EA principles and target state
- Identifies conflicts and dependencies between action and raising these with the relevant projects and stakeholders
- Contributes and supports appropriate governance for all key aspects of delivery and platforms; champions and encourages adherence to process
- Actively participates across the enterprise, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice
- Keep up to date with Microsoft Azure / AWS / GCP technologies and drive best practice and standard
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Proven knowledge and experience of working within architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or similar
- Technical knowledge of a range of cloud data technologies across Azure, AWS, GCP
- Enterprise data architecture experience
- Understanding of the service and software development lifecycle (including methodologies e.g. Agile) and associated reviews, policies, standards, and governance processes
- Self-starter with great stakeholder engagement skills and able to explain complex capabilities and their value to other technical professionals.
Desirable:
- Business and system requirements gathering / analysis
If this opportunity sounds like the challenge you are seeking, make an application today!
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