Lead Data Architect

Position: Lead Data Architect

Location: (Hybrid) London, UK

Job Type: Contract job

Job description

• Oversee the delivery of strategic data programmes, ensuring adherence to defined scope, budget, and quality standards.
• Work closely with Data Governance, Business and key stakeholders to drive the programme and roadmap of change.
• Monitor delivery progress, identifying and mitigating risks and issues as they arise.
• Prepare and present updates and reports to senior management and stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee appropriate resourcing, identifying key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external vendors; sourcing and managing appropriate vendor partners.
• Ensuring deliveries align with the strategic vision and roadmap.
• Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
• Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies.
• Monitor all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels, ensuring high-level technical support is provided for data-related technologies.
• Work closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes, particularly in data management.
• Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications. Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability.
• Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies.
• Oversee the delivery of strategic data programmes, ensuring adherence to defined scope, budget, and quality standards.
• Work closely with Data Governance, Business and key stakeholders to drive the programme and roadmap of change.
• Monitor delivery progress, identifying and mitigating risks and issues as they arise.
• Prepare and present updates and reports to senior management and stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee appropriate resourcing, identifying key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external vendors; sourcing and managing appropriate vendor partners.
• Ensuring deliveries align with the strategic vision and roadmap.
• Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
• Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies.
• Monitor all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels, ensuring high-level technical support is provided for data-related technologies.
• Work closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes, particularly in data management.
• Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications. Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability.
• Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Extensive knowledge of modern databases technologies, Snowflake and relational (such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL)
• Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods and best practices. Proficiency with various programming languages.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and guide teams towards successful project delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging effectively with stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Proactive and solution-oriented, with a keen ability to identify and resolve issues promptly.
• Organizational Skills: Excellent organizational skills, with a focus on detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Knowledge of application test automation products, processes, and best practices
• Proven experience and strong understanding of Agile development and conventional method and its application to company technology needs.
• Strong strategic decision making & long-term planning abilities to manage resources and develop efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
• Good general business acumen.
• Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data.
• Knowledge of technologies such as Python, PowerBI.