Data Solution Architect

The Data Solution Architects work in the Data Architecture practice within the CTO organisation, which reports into the Chief Technology Officer.  Data Solution Architects take primary responsibility for the design and end-to-end solutions for change delivered through project, programme, value stream, and innovation initiatives, and aligned to the Enterprise Principles, Roadmaps and Vision.

The Data Solution Architects champion technology standards, standard patterns, and best practices. They feed their depth of knowledge and expertise into the enterprise roadmaps, and lead and take part in governance forums to develop and ensure the on-going conformity to the enterprise roadmap and Admiral’s technology standards.

The Data Solution Architect provide the value streams and data domain with technology consultancy and design support grounded in subject-matter expertise and experience.  They work with the Lead Solution Architects, Senior and Staff Engineers, and Heads of Tech to ensure roadmap alignment, and ensure optimal use of enterprise assets.

Main Duties 

• Together with Lead Solution Architects, provide strong technical solutions for value streams and the data domain, own those solutions from ideation to delivery, and ensure that business value can be realised through the correct implementation of the solutions.
• Lead and contribute to governance forums, ensuring solutions adhere to established standards and patterns, identifying and controlling divergences, and escalating where necessary.
• Build productive relationships with technical, business and data stakeholders to maintain alignment of technology and business strategies.
• Contribute to and help maintain a detailed understanding of the architecture for the data domain.
• Produce documentation of a high-quality and to a detailed level, ensuring that all decision points, building blocks, principles, rationale, roadmaps, and all interdependencies are understood, documented, and communicated across value streams.
• Contribute to the architecture and data modelling repositories using the Admiral architecture and data modelling tools.
• Write, or contributes to, articles, and papers and speak at conferences, user groups, or specialist subject groups on topics involved in Architecture.  Play a leading role in special interest groups concerned within the data domain.
• Together with Lead Solution Architects, provide strong technical solutions for value streams and the data domain, own those solutions from ideation to delivery, and ensure that business value can be realised through the correct implementation of the solutions.
• Lead and contribute to governance forums, ensuring solutions adhere to established standards and patterns, identifying and controlling divergences, and escalating where necessary.
• Build productive relationships with technical, business and data stakeholders to maintain alignment of technology and business strategies.
• Contribute to and help maintain a detailed understanding of the architecture for the data domain.
• Produce documentation of a high-quality and to a detailed level, ensuring that all decision points, building blocks, principles, rationale, roadmaps, and all interdependencies are understood, documented, and communicated across value streams.
• Contribute to the architecture and data modelling repositories using the Admiral architecture and data modelling tools.
• Write, or contributes to, articles, and papers and speak at conferences, user groups, or specialist subject groups on topics involved in Architecture.  Play a leading role in special interest groups concerned within the data domain.

Experience required

Essential 

• Recognised expertise in Data Architecture & Strategy, the technology involved, current developments, the most commonly available products, and the application of Architecture within the data domain. 
• Take innovative approaches to problem solving and/or devising inventive and creative solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management, ability to communicate at all levels to ensure business and technical objectives are met.
• Keep organisational objectives and strategies in mind and ensuring courses of action are aligned with the strategic context.
• Understand commercial considerations and ensure solutions reflect them when making decisions or recommending actions.
• Proactive approach, anticipating opportunities for improvement or development and taking appropriate action(s).
• Proven experience working in a number of data domains (e.g. BI & Analytics, AI & ML, Master Data Management, Integration, Data Modelling, Data Quality and Governance).
• Experience producing Data Solution Architecture documents and High-Level Designs.

Desirable

• Experience in Financial Services and Insurance.
• Technology experience in: 
  • Google Data Cloud, including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore, DataFlow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Composer and also use of dbt.
  • The Google AI Platform, including Vertex AI and also Kubeflow, Jupyter, Python.
  • Teradata, Wherescape Red and SAS.
  • Informatica MDM.
  • MicroStrategy, Looker and Power BI.
  • Collibra and Big Id.
  • TIBCO.
  • Apache NiFi, Azure EventHub, Google Pub/Sub.
  • Oracle DB, Azure SQL Server.
  • Avolution Abacus.

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