Data Architect

The Football Association; Wembley; Híbrido; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Hybrid working model

Event day tickets

Free lunches

Private medical cover

Contributory pension

25 days annual leave

Resumo da oferta

The Football Association seeks a Data Architect to define and own the end-to-end data architecture for CRM and Marketing Technology. This greenfield role sets the architectural vision for customer and marketing data, ensuring scalable, compliant and insight-driven use across the organisation.

You will work with Product, Engineering and Data teams, providing architectural leadership while enabling delivery teams to build against a clear blueprint.

Qualificações

• Strong communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience designing data architecture strategies, models and standards.
• Experience building scalable data solutions and integrations across complex data environments.
• Understanding of customer CRM and marketing data ecosystems to support data-driven decisions.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective data architecture and technical solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Define and own the target data architecture for CRM and MarTech, including data flows.
• Establish architectural principles, standards and guardrails for delivery teams.
• Design and assure integrations across Dynamics 365, Bloomreach, HighTouch and the enterprise data platform.
• Embed data governance, quality and privacy-by-design at an architectural level.
• Provide oversight through design authority and architecture governance forums.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and Data to align architecture with business strategy.
• Support Agile teams by providing architectural direction and resolving data challenges.

Conhecimentos

Stakeholder management

Data architecture

CRM data

Marketing data

Business requirements translation

Ferramentas

Dynamics 365

Bloomreach

HighTouch

Azure data services

Microsoft Fabric

Descrição da oferta de emprego

A newly created role has arisen at The Football Association, and we're looking to appoint a Data Architect to define and own the end-to-end data architecture for CRM and Marketing Technology (MarTech). This is a greenfield opportunity working in a fast-paced environment where you will set the architectural vision for how customer and marketing data is structured, integrated and governed across our ecosystem. You'll operate at a strategic level, establishing principles, standards and patterns that enable scalable, compliant and insight-driven data use across the organisation. You'll work closely with Product, Engineering and Data teams, providing architectural leadership while enabling delivery teams to build against a clear and consistent blueprint. This role is based at the iconic Wembley Stadium, with an expectation of two days per week on-site.

We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles. To achieve this, we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire, which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.

Key accountabilities

• Define and own the target data architecture for CRM and MarTech, including integration patterns and data flows.
• Establish architectural principles, standards and guardrails to guide delivery teams.
• Design and assure integrations across Dynamics 365, Bloomreach, HighTouch and the enterprise data platform.
• Embed data governance, quality and privacy-by-design at an architectural level.
• Provide oversight and assurance through design authority and architecture governance forums.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering and Data to align architecture with business strategy.
• Support Agile teams by providing architectural direction and resolving complex data challenges.

Requirements

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong experience designing and implementing data architecture strategies, standards, models and patterns.
• Experience designing scalable data solutions and integrations across complex data environments, including batch and real-time data.
• Strong understanding of customer, CRM and/or marketing data ecosystems, with the ability to architect solutions that support effective use of customer data.
• Ability to translate commercial, marketing and business requirements into effective data architecture and technical solutions.

Beneficial to have

• Experience with Microsoft data technologies such as Fabric, Dynamics 365, Azure data services or Microsoft Foundry.
• Experience with Customer Data Platforms and activation technologies such as Bloomreach, Braze, Hightouch, Segment or equivalent.
• Knowledge of data governance, quality, lineage, privacy and consent management, including GDPR.
• Experience supporting marketing data use cases such as personalisation, first-party data activation, attribution or marketing mix modelling.
• Experience within sports, media, OTT or direct-to-consumer environments and/or relevant data architecture, Azure or Fabric certifications.

Salary and Benefits

We pride ourselves on offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:

• Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season, encourages you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and well-being.
• Free, nutritious lunches at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
• Free private medical cover.
• A contributory pension scheme.
• An additional 'Thank You' day's leave, volunteering days, as well as 25 days of annual leave (based on a full-time, permanent contract)
• A hybrid working model which offers greater flexibility.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are a diverse workplace, aspiring to represent football across the country. The Football Association actively promotes inclusion and diversity, encouraging you to be the best version of yourself at work.

We welcome applications from everyone and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If you have any particular requirements in respect of the recruitment or interview process, please mention this during your application.

As part of the FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidan

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