Senior Data Architect

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.