Data Architect

You will have a broad responsibility for coordinating, leading and delivering solutions, this will include:

• Architectural design for new systems, primarily focused on data flow pipelines, storage and analytics
• Analysis of business problems to understand system requirements, including quality attributes such as performance, availability and security
• Undertaking information assurance where required
• Engagement of technical and non-technical customer stakeholders at various levels in the organisation, advising and managing expectations where required
• Technology evaluation / assessment; identifying recommending platforms and services Technical leadership of engineering teams, including mentoring where needed
• Representing the company in public forums Be instrumental in helping to build an Architecture function and work alongside a strong team of Data Scientists, Analysts and Data Engineers

What you should have:

• Strong written, diagrammatic and spoken communication; ability to present to senior stakeholders Experience with varied types of data: tabular, connected, time-series, geospatial, image, etc
• Different types of database - relational; document; graph; columnar; key-value Large scale data processing platforms, typically based on Hadoop / Spark Business intelligence / analytics products or frameworks
• Data visualization frameworks Data analysis and data modelling requirements Experience working with cloud platforms and working with relevant PaaS / SaaS offerings
• Knowledge of data integration technologies
• Knowledge of distributed computing information security Programming experience in languages such as Java or Python is a bonus
• While you may not have an exclusively agile background, you strive to work to these principles