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Data Architect


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  • DAINTTA
  • London
  • 2 weeks ago
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Daintta are a rapidly growing, values-driven team of specialists who work with government clients across Cyber, Telecommunications and Data. We are seeking a talented and motivated Data Architect to join our team and contribute to our mission of protecting the UK through data-driven insights and solutions. As a Data Architect, you will work closely with our public sector clients and project teams to collect, analyse and interpret complex data sets, providing valuable insights that support evidence-based decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leading client projects and providing subject matter expertise
  • Assessing your clients' technical needs and understanding how their needs are different to wants and managing clients' stakeholders relationship appropriately
  • Identifying data sources, data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL/ELT) concepts and methods
  • Developing suitable data governance and provenance strategies and how they will be implemented in data architecture
  • Designing and evaluating on-premise, cloud-based and hybrid data solutions (including providing review and guidance on testing aspects, identification of risks and proposing and implementing their mitigations)
  • Modelling, structuring and storing data along with their data flows for uses including — but not limited to — analytics, machine learning, data mining, compliance, business intelligence, sharing with applications and organisations
  • Understand industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them. Compare and align different data models.
  • Designing appropriate metadata repositories and present changes to existing metadata repositories
  • Understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata
  • Designing data architecture that deals with problems spanning different business areas, producing appropriate design patterns (often supporting data science, business intelligence and business reporting purposes)
  • Applying ethical principles in handling data
  • Ensuring appropriate storage of data in line with relevant legislation
  • Building in security, compliance, scalability, efficiency, reliability, fidelity, flexibility and portability
  • Accurately delivering high quality work to agreed timelines and taking the initiative and knowing how to `jump straight in'
  • Supporting client engagements, including pitches and presentations
  • Helping to support & grow Daintta by actively inputting into the company strategy and helping to shape our future
  • Representing us and our core values: Transparent, Fair and Daring 

Skills/Knowledge

  • You have 5+ years of degree level industry experience in data related industries (e.g. as a data engineer, data analyst, data scientist) and more recently as a data architect, preferably in a consultancy or industry setting
  • You have proven experience in listening to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, interpreting them into data problems and/or engineering problems and suitably designing data architectures
  • You have led client delivery across a range of projects for delivering data platforms, e.g. data analysis, ETL/ELT, machine learning pipelines/deployments, business intelligence reporting, data security. You have proven experience in their technologies
  • You have developed data governance plans that are in line with ethical considerations, (cyber)security & relevant legislation, and designed their implementation
  • You have experience working on cloud-based infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • You have demonstrable continuous personal development with relevant data certifications and accreditations
  • You have experience with CI/CD tooling to analyse, build, test and deploy code and proven experience in their technologies
  • You understand deployment and DevOps strategies (on-prem and cloud) to support the design of data architectures that will be deployed
  • You have experience in database technologies including writing complex queries against their (relational and non-relational) data stores (e.g. Postgres, Apache Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Graph databases), and designing the database schemas to support those queries
  • You have a good understanding of coding best practices & design patterns and experience with code & data versioning, dependency management, error handling, logging, data monitoring, data validation and alerting
  • You have strong interpersonal skills
  • You have UK security clearance at SC or above or are eligible and willing to go through clearance

Location?

Hybrid, with 2-3 days working from Daintta office (London or Cheltenham) or on client site as required.

What's in it for you?

You will be joining the company at Daintta "Manager" grade. In addition to being rewarded fairly for your contribution to the business, you get to work in a dynamic organisation that is agile and responsive. A business that is growing fast and where you get to drive and shape the future. A place where you are respected by everyone and your voice is important. Somewhere where you can be innovative and creative. A place where you have the opportunity to learn about all aspects of business from marketing to sales, to delivery and business operations.

Security Information

Due to the nature of this position, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, you must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting 

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