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Senior Data Architect

CALIO Consulting Group (CCG)
Leeds
1 week ago
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Key Responsibilities


  • Collaborate with colleagues across other disciplines to ensure consideration of architecture at all stages of the delivery lifecycle and to ensure input into architecture processes.
  • Collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisations needs
  • Collaborate and consult with stakeholders to assure decisions are aligned with data architecture strategy
  • Contribute to the data architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states for customers
  • Contributes to the creation or review of a data strategy that meets the requirements of the business.
  • Coordinates the application of analysis, design and modelling techniques to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components.
  • Investigates enterprise data requirements where there is complexity and ambiguity.
  • Manages the iteration, review and maintenance of data requirements and data models.
  • Plans own data modelling and design activities, selecting appropriate techniques and the correct level of detail for meeting assigned objectives
  • Guide client organisations to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk
  • Understand client’s ecosystem and interdependencies, including reference architectures
  • Contribute to architectural principles, policies and standards
  • Contributes to policies, standards, and guidelines for how the client organisation conducts data strategy development and planning.
  • Contributes to standards for data modelling and design tools and techniques, advises on their application and ensures compliance.
  • Ensures adherence to applicable standards (corporate, industry, national and international).
  • Provide advice, leadership and mentoring for teams, defining standards and best practices
  • Act as pre-sales architect for bids and proposals, assisting with estimation and planning.
  • Participate in business development providing architectural input and meeting with clients to secure new business.
  • Work as part of a team to develop architectures for industry focused sales propositions.
  • Identification of new and emerging industry trends, software, technologies, products, services, methods and techniques and the assessment of their relevance and potential value for solutions, improvements in cost/performance or sustainability.
  • Mentor junior team members, providing feedback and support to career development.
  • Participate in development of internal architecture capability, including contributing to identification and definition of best practices, standards and ways of working.
  • Promotion of emerging technology awareness among staff and business management.


Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks:


  • Knowledge and experience of using Architecture modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect.
  • Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for handling personal data. E.g., GDPR.
  • Knowledge and experience of applying best practice within one or more specialist architecture domains.
  • Strong understanding and practical experience of working with multi-discipline teams to deliver complex technology services.
  • Understands and communicates industry developments, and the role and impact of technology


Desirable skills:


  • Experience of working in secure customer environments
  • Active SC clearance
  • DAMA CDMP certified
  • Experience of Secure Software Development Lifecycle processes and methodologies.
  • Experience working in the UK Central Government or Defence sectors.
  • Industry recognised Technical Qualifications
  • TOGAF certified with experience of applying the framework in a client environment.
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