Data Architect

The Specialist Architects operate within the CTO team taking primary responsibility providing deep, technical, cross ‘value stream’ expertise to support solution architects in creating consistency, efficient technical solutions for value streams alongside infusing that same expertise and intelligence into enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps.

The Specialist Architects take responsibility for setting out guardrails the change portfolio to ensure strategic alignment, consistency and support higher velocity and autonomous delivery.  Whilst also remaining pragmatic and focus on business value, particularly during key stakeholder engagements and participating in governance.

The Specialist Architects will be required to collaborate and communicate complex topics with leaders, change leadership and fellow architects, to ensure cohesive roadmap alignment, optimal use of Admiral assets and well-considered purchasing decisions.

Main Duties:

• Build productive relationships with technical stakeholders to maintain alignment of technology and business strategies, assessment of technology and implications to realise our goals.
• Producing documentation of a high-quality and to a detailed level. Also ensuring all decision points, building blocks, principles, rationale, roadmaps and all interdependencies are understood, documented and communicated across value streams.
• Acting as a point of reference within the team to provide knowledge and specialist, deep technical expertise.
• Contribute to the architecture repository using the accepted architecture standard modelling tools and language for specialist area
• Write, or contributes to, articles, and papers and speaks at conferences, user groups, or specialist subject groups on topics involving in Architecture. Plays a leading role in special interest groups concerned with specialist field.
• Promote Architecture within Admiral and closely associated organisations such as partners, and actively campaigns for appropriate action.
• Support innovation by research, create and communicate reports, strategies and industry insights about emerging technologies, products, services, methods and techniques and their potential impacts, threats, and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain a detailed view of the architecture across the specialist area for all value streams.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Has recognised expertise in Data Architecture & Strategy, the technology involved, current developments, the most commonly available products, and the application of Data Architecture within a technical or business environment.  Is persuasive in communicating at all levels and can ensure that is acted upon.
• Keeping organisational objectives and strategies in mind and ensuring courses of action are aligned with the strategic context.
• Understanding commercial considerations and ensuring alignment with them when making decisions or recommending actions. •Being proactive, anticipating opportunities for improvement or development and taking appropriate action(s).
• Taking innovative approaches to problem solving and/or devising inventive and creative solutions.

Desirable:

• Combines technical competence with business and commercial awareness and first-class communications skills. Possesses some knowledge of all types of information systems and detailed knowledge of Data Architecture & Strategy.
• Previous experience operating in a heavily regulated environment including external regulated consumer products and service offerings.
• Current and emerging standards associated with IT practice nationally and internationally, published by authorities such as IEEE, IEC, BSI, ISO.
• Principles, methods, techniques and tools for the preparation and monitoring of budgets to manage costs and ensure cost-effectiveness and value for money.
• Methods and techniques for delivering effective presentations, either face-to-face or online within various contexts and to a variety of audiences.
• Organisational structures; their mission, objectives, strategies and tactics adopted by organisations; measures of performance such as critical success factors and key performance indicators; organisational cultures and cultural dimensions.
• Methods, tools and techniques to analyse and optimise processes in order to improve the quality of a product or service.
• Applying techniques that help investigating, analysing, modelling and recording a business area or system of interest, leveraging Admiral’s investment in architecture tooling.
• The analytical comparison of technology options against specified criteria to determine the right outcome for Admiral.
• Performing a proof of concept or prototyping to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technological business change in order to meet a business need.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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