Cloud Data Architect for Scalable Data Platform

Bertelsmann-Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Penguin Random House in London is seeking an experienced Data Architect to join our Technology team on a permanent, hybrid basis at Embassy Gardens.

You will design scalable cloud data foundations, lead the Snowflake migration and ensure robust data governance, security and performance across BI and analytics.

Collaborate with product, Data Platform and Engineering to translate priorities into practical architectures that support business outcomes and a Dev/DataOps culture.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting cloud-based data engineering, BI and data science solutions.
• Experience with dbt for transforming, modelling, testing and documenting data within a modern data platform.
• Strong experience designing scalable data models and schemas for a range of structured and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Design robust, scalable data pipelines and architecture to bring together internal and external data sources within our cloud data platform.
• Develop the architecture and migration approach for moving legacy data into Snowflake, whilst supporting appropriate data lake and transformed data layers.
• Embed security, quality, performance and scalability into the design of our data environments, ensuring they can be used confidently by analysts and decision makers.
• Ensure the data architecture supports our Power BI reporting and analytics capability, as well as wider analytical and business intelligence needs.
• Set the technical direction for data architecture, ensuring it remains aligned with our wider data strategy, platform roadmap and business priorities.
• Support strong data governance by ensuring data structures align with agreed policies, are appropriately catalogued and enable secure and compliant use of first and third-party data.
• Partner with data science and analytics teams to design environments and structures that support advanced analytics, machine learning and AI use cases.
• Stay connected to developments across the data industry, identifying opportunities to improve the platform, increase efficiency and support new business outcomes.

Job description

Penguin Random House in London is seeking an experienced Data Architect to join our Technology team on a permanent, hybrid basis at Embassy Gardens.

You will design scalable cloud data foundations, lead the Snowflake migration and ensure robust data governance, security and performance across BI and analytics.

Collaborate with product, Data Platform and Engineering to translate priorities into practical architectures that support business outcomes and a Dev/DataOps culture.