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Data Architect

Employer
Kinect
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
up to £80,000
Closing date
20 Aug 2021

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Clearance Level
DV, SC, None / Undisclosed
Sector
Aerospace, Defence
Job Type
Permanent

Data Architect

 

Location: UK wide 

 

Salary: up to £80,000 depending on experience 

 

Responsibilities:

 

  • Define the best practices for Data Management, assurance and security including data standards, reporting and analytics.
  • Work with clients to integrate these best practices into their data governance and wider enterprise governance structures.
  • Work with clients to formulate their vision and work with them to develop, communicate and deliver a roadmap to realise it.
  • Translate visions, goals, objectives and high-level requirements into clearly defined and actionable packages of work.
  • Develop technology specifications that ensure new technology solutions are designed for optimal access and usefulness, for leveraging company data.
  • Apply architectural and business concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability and manageability.
  • Enable change by understanding existing business norms, identifying and capturing needs and recommending technical solutions that deliver value to clients and their key stakeholders
  • Use Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering methods for enterprise level problem solving and design.
  • Applying data architecture disciplines to new fields such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Produce a holistic view of the architecture which can be viewed and understood from a variety of viewpoints and levels.

Requirements:

 

  • A degree in a science, computing or engineering subject, or equivalent experience.
  • Proven work experience as a Data Architect, Data Scientist, Data Analyst or similar role.
  • Experience with the use of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as ISO42010, TOGAF, Zachman and the ITIL and IT4IT service architecture frameworks.
  • Experience of information systems design and delivery, applying engineering rigour through Enterprise Architecture development methods and tools as appropriate.
  • In-depth understanding of database structure principles.
  • Experience gathering and analysing system requirements.
  • Expertise in SQL.
  • Knowledge an inexperience in at least one of the following: UML, ERD, ETL,OLAP.
  • Knowledge of Python or similar.
  • Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI and R).

The Individual:

 

  • Excellent stakeholder management with focus on nurturing & developing strong relationships.
  • Strong consulting skills, knowledge and experience of a variety of techniques and methods to capture, elaborate and understand client challenges (structured thinking, effective report writing and presentations, and strong stakeholder engagement).
  • Good negotiation, communication and relationship building skills; able to influence business decisions and formulate positive relationships with customers, strategic partners and colleges.
  • A high-level of self-initiation, organisation and enthusiasm.
  • Motivated to drive the design and delivery of solutions that realise the outcomes for the client’s needs.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence effectively across multiple media.
  • Personable team player, able to work under guidance and own initiative, adding expertise and value to project deliverables.
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • A strong interest and appreciation of technology trends and government IT strategy such as, Cloud, Internet of Things, Cyber Security, Big Data and digital service design and delivery.

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