Lead Data Architect

The Architecture team sits within the Technology Group directorate. Its primary purpose is to define, govern and assure the implementation of the Technical Architecture.

The team contributes directly to the delivery of the Corporate Objectives by defining and governing a single Business led Enterprise Architecture Roadmap; and as curator of the Architecture Roadmap. It manages robust governance, processes and controls, and utilises flexible and responsive sourcing models as appropriate.

Being responsible for setting the company's strategic technical direction, the highly productive, skilled and engaged Architecture team operates on industry standards and best practices. Its aim being to deliver a modern, scalable, secure, resilient and safe multi-tiered architectural platform. Technical experience required for the role:

Strong specialist experience in a wide range of the following areas:

• Information modelling, information visualization, data analytics, data warehousing, metadata, semantics and ontologies within a complex enterprise
• Data layer, design and architecture of complex IT solutions
• Logical and Physical data models with hands-on experience with data and process modelling tools RDBMS technologies and SQL development Modern data management concepts including Big Data stack, NoSQL, in-memory DBMS and data caching
• Some familiarity and experience in data protection and information security.
• Large scale systems and information and technology architectures; including application integration patterns, messaging, service-oriented architecture, information models, and data lineage.
• Familiarity with key architectural concepts and trends - e.g. Microservice, Data Warehousing, Digital, Big Data, Omni-Channel.
• Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Domain Architecture, Data/Information Architecture
• Strong understanding of large scale system, information and technology architectures, including application integration patterns, messaging, service-oriented architecture and information models.
• Experience of working in a multi-vendor environment and of integrating disparate technologies
• A track record in design and architecture of complex IT solutions having worked closely with Business, Solution, Security and Infrastructure Architects to ensure that the application architectures of the solutions is aligned to the overall technology roadmap and meets the business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results under demanding timelines
• Willingness to learn new technologies, methodologies, applications and grow with team
• Experience in communicating at all levels including at an executive level with partners and senior management.
• Demonstrable experience in enterprise and data architecture frameworks and patterns (e.g. Knowledge of TOGAF methodologies and Archimate modelling language)
• Experience in leading a team of professional level staff.