Principal Data Architect

Meraki Talent Limited
Glasgow
1 month ago
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Principal Data Architect – Glasgow (Hybrid) – £110,000 - £120,000 Meraki Talent have just engaged with a Glasgow based business who are revolutionising their industry. After significant investment, they are looking to scale the business and need a Principal Data Architect to design and lead the evolution of their data architecture. Your mission is to define & implement how data flows across their platforms, how it is stored, synchronized, governed, and shared, both internally and with external partners. You will enjoy solving complex technical problems that blend system architecture, data engineering and distributed systems.Responsibilities

  • Responsibility for the business AI-Native data strategy.
  • Define the enterprise data architecture for data to ensure it is "ML-ready" from the moment of ingestion.
  • Establish a Data Lakehouse architecture on AWS to manage the massive scale of raw, unstructured data.
  • Advanced relational & semantic modelling.
  • Industrial telemetry & edge synchronization
  • Governance & enterprise readiness.

Experience You are an experience Data Architect with strong Python experience in production data and will have experience working in safety critical environment such as Med/Health Tech, Labs, Pharma, Science, Defence, Space industries or physical domains such as robotics, automotive, aerospace, industrial automati...

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