Platform Architect

Job Title: Platform Architect - Databricks

Location: Nottingham

Contract: Perm

Recruiter: Noaman Hussain

About the role

Boots and the No7 Beauty company recognise the value of data as a strategic asset and have invested in creating an independent Data Office. Our data office supports the business with data platforms, management, and usage in the business to lead commercial value and achieve strategic goals. As part of this new community you will work with experts across all specialisms that support a data-centric business, bringing great opportunities to develop a career pathway and broaden your skills.

Our Platform Architecture team provides knowledge, expertise in all aspects of solution architecture for our cloud data platform project with a solid grasp of the IT and data strategy to support our data science and analytics community within Boots. We’re looking for someone to make the next step in their career and join us as a Platform Architect focusing on our Databricks technology offerings. Platform Architecture is a broad discipline so we are looking for candidates from a range of backgrounds from technical to architectural.

As Platform Architect you will:

• Ensure our Databricks offering supports projects and teams in delivering value from data.
• Lead the definition, design and implementation of new capabilities within Databricks
• Work with other Solution Architects in the team to ensure new requirements are cost-effective, deliverable and supportable.
• Work with technology and engineering partners and with internal teams to deliver platform capabilities, allowing us to maximise the value of our data.
• Help shape platform roadmap, architectural patterns, frameworks, and components.

You will bring technical and analytical abilities and experience delivering results for customers - internal and external. So, if you are passionate about working with data to solve business problems and excited by the idea of joining an industry-leading data team, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll need to have

These are the essential skills or experience needed to succeed in this role.

• In-depth Databricks knowledge and experience
• A broad and balanced understanding of IT capabilities, methods, and technologies
• In-depth experience of the design and development of IT solutions
• Experience of influencing senior stakeholders on the solutions for proposed programmes
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Familiarity with Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence and the Data Engineering needs to fulfil Business Intelligence and Analytics Solutions
• Data Project delivery experience in the cloud (Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Synapse, Databricks, Delta Lake, Lakehouse)
• Capability and willingness to get hands-on and lead a development activity.

It would be great if you also have

These are desirable skills or experience and are not essential, so we would welcome applications from candidates that don’t match this additional criteria.

• Experience in team management
• Experience being the technical lead for globally distributed teams

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

You will complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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