Enterprise Data Architect

Venesky Brown
Dumfries, UK
6 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£195,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Data Analysis Data Architecture Information Engineering Data Governance Data Warehousing Interoperability Metadata Enterprise Data Management Data Ingestion Snowflake Data Analytics Data Management

Job description

Maintain appropriate technical documentation and decision records to provide organisational memory and support future development.

  • Provide clear progress, risk and decision reporting to senior DDaT leadership and relevant governance groups.

  • Work alongside the Data & Analytics Manager to establish delivery plans, allocating activities appropriately while maintaining clear accountability and professional boundaries.

  • Coach and mentor existing staff, transferring knowledge and developing internal capability in modern data architecture, engineering, governance and analytics.

  • Act as a senior subject-matter expert, providing authoritative advice to DDaT leadership, operational teams, programmes and senior stakeholders.

Requirements

Significant senior-level experience of developing and implementing enterprise data strategies and roadmaps within a large, complex organisation.

  • Demonstrable experience of designing or implementing modern cloud data platforms/data warehouses/lakehouse architectures.

  • Practical experience of Snowflake or comparable enterprise cloud data platforms, including understanding of data ingestion, transformation, modelling, governance and analytics architectures.

  • Demonstrable experience of taking an organisation from fragmented/siloed data towards an enterprise data architecture.

  • Strong knowledge of data architecture, data engineering, interoperability, data governance, metadata, lineage and data-quality management.

  • Significant experience of managing specialist technology/data suppliers and acting as an intelligent client.

  • Strong understanding of information governance, security, privacy and the implications of using sensitive data.

  • Ability to communicate complex data and architectural concepts to executives, clinicians, operational leaders and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits & conditions

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Dumfries, is currently looking to recruit a Data Architect (Part-time) working 3 days per week, for an initial 3 month contract on a rate of £750/day (Outside IR35). This role will be 2 days from home & 1 day in Dumfries.

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