DATA ARCHITECT

Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

We require an experienced Data Architect to support the delivery of Enterprise and
Big Data Architectures with a focus on BI and Data Management applications.

The role will involve the following:-

• Definition of Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Models and Data
Architectures to support client enterprise architecture initiatives
• Definition of Logical and Physical Data Models, Data Flows (including
streaming data) and Data Architectures to support BI, Data Warehouse and Data
Migration application requirements
• Part of a BI architecture capability responsible for delivering bid and
project solution architecture definitions
• Involvement in pre-sales and bid efforts to define and explain BI and data
management solution architectures
• Acting as design authority for BI or Data Management application projects and
owning delivery of the data architecture/models that support these projects
• Team lead for small teams of data modellers to support the above work
• Delivery of data governance processes to support management of client data
architectures
• Mapping data from operational systems to BI systems (mis of on-premise and
cloud)
• Client facing role working through requirements and delivering data
architectures in required formats and using agreed data design/modelling tools

Signs of success

To be successful in this role, you’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven

skills and personal attributes. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re
looking for.
You will be able to deliver data architectures for projects in the data management,
BI and analytics space. The role is client facing so travel to client sites is
expected. Good communication skills, both oral and written is a must

Skills we can’t do without:

• Demonstrable experience of defining and building BI /Data Warehouse logical,

cloud data architecture and physical models including normalised and dimensional
models as required
• Experience mapping data from operational system to BI systems
• Demonstrable experience in defining and building Data Migration architectures
• Expertise in a minimum of one data modelling tool preferably Erwin and/or IBM
Rational System Architect
• Expertise in running client workshops to extract and understand client data
requirements and turn these into valuable data models
• Be able to demonstrate a thorough appreciation of the architecture, design and
data related issues that affect the development of the different types of Data
Warehouse and BI applications
• Experience across a range of relational and database technology, including
Oracle and SQL Server
• Must be able to demonstrate good analytical skills and a logical approach to
problem solving
• Pragmatic and detail orientated
• Excellent organisational and co-ordination skills
• Demonstrable team leadership attributes
• Have the ability to obtain SC clearance

Skills we’d like:

• Experience in defining and building enterprise wide conceptual, logical and

physical models
• Experience in leading small teams of architects/data modellers
• Demonstrate a good understanding of data integration tools, metadata
repository tools and their use
• Appreciation and awareness of the latest concepts around Big Data and its
application in BI architectures and solutions
• A good understanding of Master Data Management theory and application and the
tools that support this
• Architecture experience in Microsoft Cloud (incl. Azure analytics tools) and
exposure to Google Cloud Platform or AWS cloud.
• Experience of migrating/integrating data from on premise to Cloud