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Data Architect

Employer
Undisclosed Company
Location
Newbury, Berkshire
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
12 Mar 2019

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Sector
IT
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full-time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a world leading global organisation. Our client, a blue-chip IT company, is currently seeking 2 Data Architects based at their Leading Software customer site in Newbury. These are full-time, permanent roles to start ASAP.


Our client is a leading infrastructure software company with global scale. The Group is the seventh largest software company in the world, the largest technology company listed on the FTSE and the largest UK technology company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. They specialise in managing predominantly mature infrastructure software assets which have been delivering value to significant numbers of customers over long periods of time.

We are therefore looking for Candidates to assist our client in the Data and Business Intelligence domain who have experience in playing key roles on similar size and scale programmes. Working in a dynamic fast-moving environment, the candidates should be self-starters, able to provide perspectives and guidance based upon a proven track record of delivery. Preferably experienced in directing and challenging System Integrators.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the development and maintenance of the company conceptual, logical, and physical data architecture, supporting projects as necessary
  • Creates and maintains the enterprise data architecture artefacts including principles, models, dictionary, standards.
  • Ensure projects adhere to company wide data and database standards and policies
  • Provides extensive technical, strategic advice and guidance to solution leads, solution architects and system integrators / 3rd parties in the creation and implementation of new data standards, mappings, integrations and databases or changes to existing ones
  • Work with both technical and business stakeholders to understand the data needs for projects. Attend requirement sessions when necessary, communicating any concerns to project leadership
  • Make recommendations and assess proposals for data solution optimisation
  • Review and assesses proposals requesting changes or upgrades to the existing data solutions
  • Review project deliverables relating to data to ensure that they are built in-line with the stated design
  • Translate complex technical terminology, concepts and issues in terms understandable to technical and non-technical management and resources staff
  • Virtual member of Enterprise Architecture team and support technical and data design authorities as needed

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required:

  • System development life cycle (SDLC) / SW development processes (RUP, Agile, Waterfall)
  • Requirements Specification and development
  • Online transaction processing (OLTP) Database design and development experience in Oracle RDBMS / MS SQL
  • Online Analytical processing (OLAP) Database design and development in Vertica
  • Database and Big Data technology best practice and industry trends
  • Technical Design process and models
  • Database administration and tuning
  • Virtualization Technology (VM Ware)
  • Web Technologies - HTML/CSS/Java/ASP.Net/PHP/Ruby/C#
  • Testing
    • Standard test tools
    • Testing processes
  • Knowledge of company applications, databases, data and integration landscape
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Problem solving / analytical skills, tools and techniques
  • 3+ years' experience in database development and maintenance.

Preferred:

  • 5+ years' experience in database development and maintenance

Proposed Metrics and Accountabilities:

  • On-time completion of database development projects
  • High-quality code (measured by defect rate)
  • High levels of maintainability / reliability in production

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