Data Architect

(***Security Clearance IS required***)

Job type: PERMANENT

Location: Hybrid/Corsham

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000

Overview

We are working with a national leader in the IT consulting sector. They are an independent firm, that provide both business and technical services to the UK public sector. They specialise in design, procurement and delivery of digital services and associated business change activities, and they help their clients to determine and resolve management and tech issues and find new opportunities to improve services and performance.

In this role you will be given the opportunity to support a range of high-profile UK public sector organisations, you will help enable these organisations to gain the maximum benefit from their technology investments, and whilst doing this you would be playing a key role in critical national projects and making a real positive difference to peoples everyday lives.

What you will be doing as a Data Architect

Creating genuinely useful outcomes to help deliver client goals in major business transformation programmes

Hands-on analysis, not just assurance, including working with clients, users and other team members to address issues before they become blockers

Translating business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses

Defining the data architecture framework, standards and principles, including modelling, meta data, security, reference data such as product codes and client categories, and master data such as clients, vendors, materials, and employees

Defining reference architecture, which is a pattern that others can follow to create and improve data systems

Defining data flows, i.e., which parts of the organisation generate data, which require data to function, how data flows are managed, and how data changes in transition

Offering advice on potential solutions and products to solve and enhance client data and analytical reporting capabilities

Collaborating and coordinating with multiple departments, stakeholders, partners, and external vendors.

What we need form you as a Data Architect:

Experience in or with:

Cloud analytics platforms e.g. relevant Azure platform services

Data visualisation tools e.g. Power BI, Qlik Sense

Data science approaches and tooling e.g. Spark

Data engineering approaches

Government Digital Service approaches including the Government Service Design Manual and the Service Standard

Enterprise or Solution architecture development using a recognised framework e.g. TOGAF

Business or systems analysis methods and tools, e.g. BPMN, UML

Software development methods and techniques e.g. Agile methods such as SCRUM

Public sector best practice guidance, e.g. ITIL, OGC tookit

Business case development to Treasury guidelines.

*****Candidates MUST have or be eligible for SC clearance