Data Architect

Job Title: Data Architect

Location: Leeds or Halifax, UK (Hybrid: 2-3 Days onsite every week)

Duration: 6 Months (Extendable)

Employment Type: Contract B2B {Inside IR35}

Roles & Responsibilities:

GCP

Data Products, Data Mesh, ETL, EDW

Composer, Big Query, DataProc, DBT

Spark, Hive, Kafka, Pub-Sub

Jira

GCP BigQuery, GCP Dataflow, BigTable, Python, Kafka, Cloud DataProc, Cloud Data Flow, Cloud Data Fusion, GCS, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud functions, BigTable, Python, Scala, Java, .NET, ANSI SQL, Spark, Airflow, ShellScripts, Control-M, Git, CI & CD, HDFS, Unix File System, RDBMS

Azure Devops, Harness

More about the role:

• Able to define Data Product Definition, Architecture and Roadmap.
• Define Target Model backlog in collaboration with client stakeholders. Lead deliver a complete Architectural Design.
• Ensure designs and guidance are aligned with the relevant strategies, roadmaps and policies.
• UK Mortgages background experience will be good but not mandatory.
• Experience on GCP, Harness, Azure is also expected.
• Is able to support the gathering of information requirements from IT and Business stakeholders.
• Ensures the information requirements are realistic and achievable. Simplify and de-risk information landscape.
• Model the information requirements in ways that can be understood by different stakeholders.
• Understands enterprise wide information architecture and can relate the particular information requirements to it.
• Understands the strengths and weaknesses of the solution and takes the necessary steps to mitigate those weaknesses.
• Defines the information roadmap for the project and wider programme for the onward development of the solution.
• Understands the position of the solution within the wider application and information landscape, and works alone or with other architects to define how the solution is to be embedded in the landscape.
• Ensures the data design is consistent from the beginning, through the phases and into build by facilitating knowledge transfer to Engineering team and reviewing their downstream deliverables
• Will define, at the logical level, the data interfaces between systems.
• Will aid in the physical design of any data stores, interface files or services.
• Ensures that the solution is compliant to the clients Information policies and standards.
• Lead Architecture Committee governance approvals for artefacts.