Data Architect, Research IDS

• Information Lifecycle - is the application of policies and standards to enable information management continuum (the acquisition and exchange, validation, integration and preparation, accessibility, and storage and archival of information).
• Information Strategy - is responsible for defining the information framework that ensures compliance with regulations, standards and codes of good practice relating to information and records management, information assurance and data protection.
• Information Governance - ensure the data assets are fit for purpose, reliable, and protected at all levels of organization across all functions and locations.
• Information Stewardship - include management of taxonomies, data and metadata along with data quality. Ensures Master and Reference data domains are well defined and mapped to authoritative sources.

• Engages with business and proactively seeks opportunities to deliver business value.
• Understands business requirements and effectively translates business needs and process into technical terms, and vice versa
• Elicits and defines requirements
• Ensures appropriate business roles are engaged in solution execution.
• Participates in design reviews to ensure traceability of requirements.
• Networks with appropriate IT colleagues to determine solutions to meet business partners needs.
• Seeks opportunities to reuse existing processes and services to streamline support and implementation of key systems.
• Stay abreast of tools and technologies to influence IT strategy so that it provides best usage opportunities for business
• Ability to adapt quickly in a constantly changing environment

Required Technology skillset:

• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-scale data warehouses using relational database technologies (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Graph) and data modeling techniques.
• Deep understanding of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and best practices for data integration.
• Experience working with large datasets and optimizing data warehouse performance for reporting and analytics
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based data platforms and their components (required):
• AWS (essential): Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena.
• Azure (preferred): Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Databricks.
• Experience designing and implementing data pipelines on these platforms, including data ingestion, processing, and storage optimization
• Familiarity with big data concepts and technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or similar, for processing and analysing massive datasets Proficiency in data modelling for Databases, Data Warehouses
• Knowledge / working experience in Datalake architecture
• Have experience in Data Security and Data migration

Good to have

• Working knowledge in Tools / Platforms such as Airflow, Kafka, GraphDB, Github CodeSpaces
• DevOps deployment tooling such as Jenkins
• Experience in Data Migration from on-prem to AWS
• Experience in DBs such as Oracle, MSSql, Postgres

Data Governance & Security:

• Experience defining and implementing data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, integrity, security, and compliance with regulations.
• Understanding of data privacy concerns and best practices for data anonymization and security.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust data architectures

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or related scientific discipline.
• 5 + years of relevant work experience.

• Experience working in regulated environments and with internal systems quality policies and procedures.
• Experience in working in Scrum /agile methodologies.
• Experience in development and deployment on cloud infrastructure.
• Pharmaceutical or healthcare industry experience.
• Defining best practices and developing technical standards, design principals, best practices, and frameworks.
• Technical curiosity and desire to innovate.