POSITION DETAILS
Position: Senior Data Solutions Architect (Associate Director, Data Strategy)
Craft: Strategy
Reports directly to: Director, Data & Analytics
ABOUT THE ROLE
Isobar, a leading global digital transformation agency, is looking for a key hire in its growing Data and Analytics practice. We live our values; the Senior Data Solutions Architect will “Respect the craft” and leverage their enterprise data engineering and architecture knowledge to help our big, brand name clients solve complex data management needs. In a position of influence, “Be excellent to each other” across the wider Dentsu group and also with our diverse client portfolio. Challenges and opportunities will vary with each engagement and we need you to bring your positive attitude to “Make it happen”. If you want to work with leaders that “Give a damn” we have the role for you!
As a senior contributor in the Data & Analytics team, you will be responsible for:
consulting with stakeholders to understand their vision, strategy, and business objectives
technical engagements, discovery, pre-sales support and authoring statements of work
influencing stakeholders to guide senior enterprise technology investment decision making
scoping and requirements gathering for enterprise data & technology architecture strategies
capture of current state data management architecture, gap & technical debt assessment
define / design the end to end, future state technical data architecture & delivery roadmap
articulate the features of future state architecture and sequence delivery to extract value
communicate benefits & limitations of data architecture design to non-technical stakeholders
write service impact assessments & risks mitigation plans for migrations to future state
orchestrate delivery across teams, tools, architecture frameworks and design principles
support engineering & implementation of data management & analytics solution / platforms
collaborate with architecture & engineering counterparts for on time delivery of target state
ownership of data architecture domain practices to achieve agency & client objectives
provide thought leadership in Data Architecture practice & represent the agency publicly
EXPERIENCE DESIRED
4+ years of demonstrable Data Architecture capability and deliverables including:
Data management platform solution design, both on-prem and cloud deployments
Data model and warehouse design, including ingestion & ETL from source to storage
Data integration, transformation, curation, conformance and feature engineering
Data reliability engineering, security and syndication, governance and stewardship
2+ years of demonstrable, on the tools, delivery focused Data Engineering practice
2+ years experience with data mining, BI and analytics, and data science platforms/solutions
2+ years in technology consulting (internal or external), pre-sales support and delivery
Development of data management strategies, architecture frameworks and roadmaps
Strong familiarity with enterprise architecture standards (ie. TOGAF), and best practice
Requirements gathering, solutions design, engineering delivery in complex environments
Developed cross-functional winning proposals, project estimates and statements of work
Has lead platform vendor assessments, selection, management and contract negotiations
Digital marketing, martech/adtech, and big data platform experience are highly desirable
ABOUT YOU
After some years building your skills in data engineering, you levelled up and gained the creds you needed to become a data architect. Now, having delivered a number of key data architecture designs and solutions implementations for large enterprise clients, or internally within a large enterprise, you are seeking a new challenge. You want a senior architecture role that blends your technical prowess with your entrepreneurial spirit; an opportunity to demonstrate your broad product and solutions knowledge in highly consultative engagements with senior stakeholders across multiple clients.
You are energised by some pretty geeky topics of debate, and have balanced views on subjects like:
- what are the advantages and disadvantages of open source versus proprietary solutions
- which cloud storage and data warehousing options suit best for which client situations
- how to balance the need for regulatory compliance, data governance and data science agility
- the pros / cons of various reporting, BI, analytics and data science tools and platforms
- how businesses can surface and consume unstructured data to better serve their customers
You are able to interrogate business requirements deeply, and form a view as to how best to ingest, integrate, curate and conform streams from multiple data sources into cloud storage ready for syndication. You design data models in readiness for analysts and data scientists to extract insight and business value from the data you have surfaced, appreciating the nuance in how that data must be prepared, used, and made available between BI and ML workloads.
You know you are a craft leader and domain expert, and now you are looking for that rare opportunity to prove your craft and grow your creds across multiple industry categories.
YOUR SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Tertiary qualification(s) in a computer science, information technology or related
Professional qualification(s) or credentials in enterprise and/or data architecture
Vendor certifications (ie. GCP, AWS, IBM, AZURE) are highly regarded
Ability to demonstrate strategic thinking, agile planning and tactical delivery
A strong communicator who can distill complex technology concepts into digestible, action-oriented narratives and recommendations for a non-technical audience
An authentic relationship builder, with the confidence to engagement c-suite stakeholders
A hunger to always be learning, and a passion for educating others about the job you love
A broad understanding of digital ecosystems, platforms and channels, as well as other supporting technologies that may be affected by (or become part of) data solutions recommended
An understanding of media strategy, planning and measurement is an added bonus
As a global organisation, we offer amazing opportunities for our employees to succeed and advance within their profession, both in Australia and New Zealand, and around the world.
Here are some of the great benefits enjoyed by all Dentsu Aegis Network employees:
Extra week of annual leave per year after 2 years with the business
4x summer half days, 3x winter half days
Wellness perks including, free counselling, flu vaccinations, health-checks, and more
Free fruit, coffee and monthly themed lunches
Exclusive discounts to amazing products from our client partners
Fantastic office environment in great locations
Collaborative team environment across the network
Access to insights, research and information about the industry
Access to development courses and additional training from our internal Learning & Development team
Participate as a team, and give back to those in need in our annual One Day for Change, volunteering day
INTERESTED?
Great, just send us your CV, a covering letter that highlights why you think you are suitable and anything else that you think we would find interesting – and if we think we would like working together then we will give you a call.
“At DAN, a diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work, and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures”