Data Architect

Salary: £33,600 – £45,600 per year

Data Architect – Fully remote (1 day a month on site in Cardiff) 

Salary £33,600 – £45,600 + Bonus paid 6 monthly. 

Benefits 

• Pension scheme. 

• Access to PerkBox discount scheme. 

• 25 days holidays per annum plus bank holidays. 

• Choice of MacBook or Windows laptop.

• Availability of cycle to work scheme.

Who is this business? 

A Data Architect is required to work for an exciting Cloud consultancy working with

large customers across the UK, enabling their transformation using public cloud,

data and AI services. This consultancy works with clients across all sectors to

enabling their clients to get more intelligent, faster decision-making and improved

overall performance from their data.

Role Brief:

You will work collaboratively with data engineers, data analysts, operations experts

and business analysts to deliver high quality outcomes. You will do this via modern

data sourcing, integration and modelling techniques, working as part of a small tight

knit team and often semi-embedded within a client team.

Day to day responsibilities for the Data Architect include:

Working with the customer and external teams to design a modern data

analytics platform.

Working with a delivery manager to develop a backlog and roadmap of

platform changes for an agile delivery.

Breaking down complex requirements into actionable chunks of work.

Design and build ETL services to transform data from a variety of data

Sources.

Designing and building data warehouse services.

Designing and building data lake services.

Communicating your work to the delivery team and to clients, providing

confidence in order to drive change in a business.

Working with data to enhance the businesses decision making capability and

drive them forward on their data journey.

Discovery exercises to help the customer understand their existing datasets.

Gaining business & data knowledge across organisations and domains to

become a lead architect on the solution.

Working across a variety of technologies and platforms to eliminate data silos.

Ensuring data is secured across different clients and in line with legislation.

Working alongside data engineers, analysts, and other areas of the

consultancy.

Working with cloud platform engineers to design and build work packages.

Supporting pre-sales and management team(s) with client proposals.

Coaching and upskilling other members of the team.

What you will need to succeed:

Strong SQL skills.

Strong Azure data skills including Azure Data Factory, Power BI and ETL

pipelines.

A results-oriented mind-set with a passion for data and a keen eye for detail.

Ability to work in fast-paced environments, rolling onto multiple projects if needed at any one time.

Essential Skills:

Architecting modern data analytics platforms and well architected designs.

Leading teams from an architectural perspective.

Communicating with multidisciplinary teams, leading presentations and

providing recommendations into architecture strategy.

Desirable skills include:

Effective Data Architecture.

Strong database skills for relational and non-relational databases.

Agile development and CI/CD tolling (GIT, Jira, Azure DevOps).

Good communication skills within a team environment and to an external

Client.

Further Azure competencies, including some of:

Data Lake.

Azure Data Factory (including building Data Factory Pipelines).

Azure Synapse.

Oracle HCM/ERP.

Desirable experience for the Data Architect includes:

Building effective CI/CD tools and processes

Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-

tolerant data solutions on Azure.

Performing discovery exercises including the analysis of existing systems to

recommend improvements for performance, fault tolerance and security.

Triaging issues and coordinating resolutions between teams.

Designing, building and testing solutions, including data pipelines.

Data design consultancy.

Creating of high-level design/architecture documentation.