Our client is a financial services brand who are looking for a Data Architect to join their organisation on a 6 month rolling contract. The role is responsible for the design of data and analytics solutions to help enable the businesses strategy. This is an ideal role for a motivated, experienced Architect with the company embarking on various strategic initiatives to uplift & modernise their data and analytics landscape.
Key responsibilities:
- Proven experience in driving architectural change focusing on delivering real outcomes
- Experienced working on modern, Azure-based data Architecture projects.
- Design solutions that ensure data integrity, consistency & security. This includes solutions for the enterprise data warehouse, master data, data analytics platform, as well as data integration
- Gather design requirements; plan, coordinate and participate in workshops, solution refinement, development activities, and support the testing of data & analytics work streams.
- Network and collaborate by sharing knowledge and best practices within the team and cross lines of business.
- Define and maintain architectural patterns and standards for information / Data Architectures and ensure alignment with the overall technology architecture.
- Define and maintain data / information architecture assets and roadmaps based on changes in business scenarios, environment, technology architecture and regulation
- Build relationships across all levels of the organization, engage with various stakeholders to analyse, model and make recommendations on new and changed requirements
Key experience:
- 5+ years' experience as a Data architect or similar role
- Demonstrable Architecture & Implementation experience across multiple data projects and engagements.
- Experience designing scalable cloud-based data solutions using Azure is essential.
- Experience with Snowflake is strongly preferred
- Good working knowledge of data cleansing, profiling, governance as well as data science and analytics practices.
- Experience with designing and implementing CI/CD pipeline automation
- An appreciation of the principals surrounding dataops & CI\CD tools like Jenkins, Github, AWS native etc.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and engagement skills from C-suite to Data Analyst positions.
- Track record of developing solutions that are maintainable and secure.
- Experience working with BAs to ensure high quality of business and technical requirements
- Good knowledge of agile software/product delivery and lean working practices
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