Senior Data Architect

WorldPay
London, UK
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Architectural Patterns Data Architecture Data Governance Data Retention Data Warehousing Database Design Software Design Patterns Event-Driven Programming NoSQL Systems Development Life Cycle HybridCloud Information Technology

Job description

  • Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and high-performance data architectures that meet strategic business objectives.
  • Documenting and communicate architecture roadmaps and designs to business and technical audiences.
  • Provide solution design leadership to engineering teams and accountability across data architectures in multiple domains.
  • Establish and maintain a library of reusable functional component models for Global Payments product lines.
  • Building highly scalable services in hybrid cloud environments, leveraging modern day design patterns including event driven system design.
  • Standardising architecture documentation and applying technology governance around platform architectural patterns.
  • Exploring new business domains and providing architectural oversight to impact on existing platform capabilities.
  • Support audit and compliance requirements such as encryption, security, and data retention.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Quality management?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * Proven experience as a data architect with a track record of designing and implementing complex data architecture solutions in enterprise environments.

  • Expertise in data modelling, database design and data warehousing concepts.
  • Proficiency in relational and noSQL databases
  • Experience of data governance and data quality management.
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision making skills.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and drive consensus.
  • Proven leadership abilities
  • Expertise with end-to-end systems development life cycles and a background leading large projects.
  • A bachelor’s in computer science or engineering, or the equivalent experience - post-graduate education desired.
  • Curious - You ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day
  • Accountable - You never standing still, never settle. You work at pace to achieve your goals.
  • Inclusive - You collaborate, encouraging others to perform at their best, always welcoming new perspectives.

About the company

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

We’re looking for a Senior Data Architect to join our ever evolving Merchant Solutions Development team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

About the team Our Tech and Security teams keep us moving each day, no matter where we are in the world. From the hardware to the networks and everything between, they humbly make it all happen.

As a Senior Data Architect, you’ll help design the foundation for how our payments platforms perform and scale across a complex data environment. Your expertise will influence the architecture of critical data systems and workflows of a payments processing ~14 billion payments annually across 174 countries. You will providing system designs and governance across the data architecture landscape, and building solutions across the acquiring domain as it expands in capabilities to handle real time data processing, data localisation legislation, and large scale data processing.

You will be working as part of a team of system architects defining the platform architecture across multiple domains within an acquiring landscape with global scope, building end-to-end solutions and architectural patterns to ensure the platform can perform at scale., What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open - winning and failing as one.

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