Data Architect

Guardian News and Media Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading journalism organization in London is seeking a Data Architect to enhance its GCP-based data platform. You will design data architecture, support data engineering initiatives, and champion DataOps practices. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in cloud data environments and experience with Google Cloud Platforms. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Benefits

30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Private healthcare and life cover

Enhanced family leave policies

Culture and wellbeing support tools

Qualifications

• Proven track record in data platform engineering.
• Ability to communicate complex technical ideas in business terms.
• Experience working with information security and data privacy.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end data architecture design for GCP-based platform.
• Implement monitoring and logging strategies for reliability.
• Champion DataOps practices across data teams.

Skills

Cloud-based data lake and data warehouse environments

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

DataOps practices

Data security and privacy requirements

Education

Demonstrable experience as a Data Architect

Experience in GCP administration

Tools

Terraform

Airflow

DBT

Job description

Overview

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are now looking for a Data Architect to join the Guardian News & Media's (GNM) Group Technology & Data team. At GNM we see data as an asset that is critical for informing our business and driving performance. Data supports all areas of operations: informing our editors\' choices; supporting advertising revenue; and supporting our reader revenue teams to acquire more supporters and increase revenue per supporter. The Data Architect will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing our data management infrastructure, ensuring it supports our strategic goals and operational needs, specifically in relation to our Google Cloud (GCP) based data platform. You\'ll work closely with our Technology, Product and Engineering, editorial, reader revenues, advertising and analytics teams to develop and optimise our data platform with solutions that drive our business forward and help embed a "Data as a Product" mindset within GNM.

We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end data architecture design, evolving our existing GCP-based data platform architecture to meet strategic goals whilst enabling the platform to be scalable, robust and secure
• Support the data engineering team with implementing architectural, process or pattern changes, implementing monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies for the data platform to ensure high reliability and quick incident response.
• Work with data governance, security and privacy teams to embed their requirements into solutions and repeatable data engineering patterns.
• Oversee and provide guidance to the data teams in implementing ETL processes using Terraform, dbt and Airflow to streamline data flow.
• Champion DataOps practices across the data team, focusing on automated testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring for data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Continuously assess and improve the data architecture to enhance performance, scalability, and security.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience as a Data Architect with a track record of working with cloud-based data lake and data warehouse environments
• Previous experience in data platform engineering, including experience in GCP administration and management and knowledge of AWS
• Expert knowledge of modern data stack in particular Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google BigQuery (GBQ), Airflow and DBT or similar technologies for designing data ingestion/reporting, transformations, optimisations and middleware interoperability
• Ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy to understand business terms
• Demonstrated ability to assess needs of the relevant internal teams, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action
• Experience of working with information security and data privacy and realising their requirements (e.g. data access, data retention, vulnerability management etc)

Benefits and other information

• You\'ll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• Our pension scheme is generous; if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age).
• We believe in giving back, which is why employees are given 2 volunteering days annually and the option of payroll giving. Season ticket loans are also available.
• You are entitled to private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance.
• We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy.
• Culture and wellbeing: We offer tools to prioritise your wellbeing including access to our employee benefits platform with tailored support for health and wellbeing, free yoga and pilates classes, corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.
• Our canteen has views overlooking the Regents Canal and caters for breakfast, lunch and dinner.