Description
Role Purpose:
Accountable for defining and implementing data architecture solutions for assigned projects, ensuring alignment with our client’s governance, policies, and standards. The role will provide strategic guidance on data processing, modelling, integrations, and lifecycle management while supporting business transformation initiatives. The Data Architect will play a critical role in developing best practices for structured and unstructured data management, including data cataloguing, security, privacy, and records management. This role requires strong collaboration with business and technology leads, architects, and data engineers to design scalable, efficient, and compliant data solutions.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Work closely with business and technology teams to understand their data needs, prioritize requirements, and provide expert recommendations on data solutions.
- Define and maintain data architecture frameworks, standards principles roadmaps ensuring consistency across multiple execution venues.
- Develop transformation roadmaps enhance integrity scalability performance flexibility across lifecycle (ingestion storage consumption).
- Design end-to-end covering conceptual integration strategies security measures governance policies.
- Establish best practices migration extraction destruction while compliance regulatory requirements.
- Conduct research recommend emerging technologies tools methodologies drive innovation operational efficiency.
- Maintain Enterprise Architecture artefacts including Entity Relationship Models Dictionaries Taxonomies enhance traceability.
- Define document flows mapping movement systems addressing integration transformation challenges.
- Ensure all adhere corporate align enterprise-wide models principles Engage bodies such Design Integrity Forum Committee Privacy secure approvals Share frameworks organization standardization optimization Critical Deliverables: fully articulated Document covering: perspectives considerations details strategies plans Ensuring reviewed approved framework Key KPIs: Completion Documents designs within agreed timelines Successful sign-off relevant boards Effective delivery optimal involving SaaS enterprise Technical/Functional Knowledge Minimum years experience least Financial Services sector Strong expertise frameworks patterns modelling software development database ETL Business Intelligence governance Hands-on cataloguing Collibra Solidatus world equivalent Minimum AWS Azure cloud services SQL PL/SQL T-SQL Expertise using Erwin Power Designer SQLDBM Sparx EA Experience working Oracle Server Snowflake OLTP/OLAP Minimum reporting Power BI Objects Tableau OBI Understanding Master Management MDM Informatica Familiarity columnar NoSQL predictive analytics visualization GDPR Protection Act Machine Learning NLP text Python programming highly desirable TOGAF ISEB certification preferred Business Sector Expertise working stakeholders corporate functions HR Finance Risk Compliance Ability engage senior leadership translate complex concepts terms Proven managing large-scale Governance programs global organizations Strong stakeholder geographically distributed Competencies Soft Skills problem-solving analytical Excellent communication explain non-technical audiences Self-starter proactive mindset prioritize Adaptability fast-moving evolving priorities attention commitment high-quality Passionate technology-driven decision-making Summary focus catalogue ensuring ideal candidate extensive proficiency track record successful transformations position acumen engagement global proactive passion Outline Group leading wide infrastructure consultancy well-known extensive pool competent professionals exclusive Academy programmes undertake training core disciplines number vendors Government institutions insurance companies investment banks brokers hedge funds list capabilities click differently service providers Assured Outcome Provider AOP spent fifteen willingly sharing risk focusing outputs quality ROI inputs pricelists headcount fitting needs augmenting enthusiastic flexible change