Drive the design of data solution on our cloud-based data platform that support each of our business units in modernising decision making through data.
Represent the data platform on major organisation-wide transformation programs, supporting the whole data development systems life cycle from inception to implementation with data platform solution design and architecture expertise.
Provide thought leadership, interacting with various M&S teams (e.g., platform product owners, analytics team leads, data science team, internal business partners, Digital & Data leadership team, architects, Ops engineers, software engineers) to understand data use cases and requirements, and proposing design patterns and solution designs
Responsible for managing the technical design for components of the BEAM platform ensuring that scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and elasticity are considered.
Contribute to POCs and RFPs to fairly assess and select suitable tools to improve our platform.
Own the architecture backlog and progress discussions relating to design decisions, standardised principles, and new features/patterns/capabilities.
Collaborate with our strategic partners, inputting into future roadmaps for data technology and tools.
Support the estimation, sizing, and impact assessment of new solutions against current and target roadmap data architecture.
Requirements & Skills:
Experience in designing secure, scalable, performant, functionally rich data solutions in a complex environment
Experience in data warehouse, data lake, and lake house solutions
Understanding of Analytics and Reporting, Data Engineering, and Data Governance methodologies and technologies.
Understanding of enterprise security requirements and techniques along with enterprise application development and software engineering
Creating Key Design Principles (KDPs) and Key Design Decisions (KDDs)
Presenting technology proposals (including costs/benefits) to non-technical senior team members with the ability to gather, assimilate, and document details of a complex data and technology estate
