Lead Data Architect

Duties & Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders, both internal and external, to understand business requirements, provide strategic guidance, and ensure that data solutions meet their objectives
• Support the design, development, and implementation of data architectures that meet the needs of our clients, ensuring alignment with security, performance, and scalability requirements
• Utilise extensive experience with AWS tooling and other cloud providers to architect and deploy secure, cloud-native solutions for batch and real-time data processing
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, ensuring best practices in data architecture, security, and cloud computing
• Proficiency in data modelling, ETL processes, data warehousing, distributed systems and metadata systems
• Utilise Apache Flink and other streaming technologies to build real-time data processing systems that handle large-scale, high-throughput data
• Ensure all data solutions comply with industry standards and government regulations, maintaining the highest levels of data security and integrity
• Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences
• Support the sales and pre-sales teams by providing expert advice and input on proposals, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with client needs
• Advise and support on breaches of data standards and make recommendations about how they should be resolved
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies, data architecture, and security practices, and apply this knowledge to continuously improve our offerings
• Defines and communicates client data architectures, understands the data architecture relationships bet