Data Partner

LPUK LeasePlan UK Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pension scheme

Annual salary review and bonus scheme

EV company car

Retail discounts programme

GymFlex membership

Job summary

Ayvens is hiring a Data Architect to lead data strategy across multiple business domains. You will define enterprise models, ensure data quality, and guide project teams to deliver robust data solutions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Architecture and Data Management to maintain lineage, dictionaries, and reporting artefacts while driving data-driven decision making across the UK business.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a Data Architect, Data Solution Architect, Lead Data Engineer, or similar senior data role.
• Proven experience supporting Finance and Credit Risk data modelling needs.
• Proven experience owning and governing enterprise data models across operational systems, data warehouses, and analytical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME for data within assigned business domains, guiding stakeholders, project teams, analysts, and engineers.
• Define and maintain enterprise and domain-level data models, ensuring consistency, accuracy, scalability, and alignment with business requirements.
• Oversee the delivery of technical solutions by leading relevant project teams and ensuring governance.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Data Management to improve data completeness and reporting artefacts.
• Create lineage, business definitions, and other data artefacts for feeds and stores.
• Contribute to cross-project knowledge sharing on data and reporting practices.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Azure Databricks

Power BI

SAP BW

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

SAP BW

Azure

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

At Ayvens, progress starts with you. Our ambitions to shape the future of sustainable mobility are powered by our talent. Join us, and get better with every move. The Digital & IT division supports the Ayvens business by providing effective and efficient technology capabilities that allow us to operate in a flexible, secure and sustainable way. We work with the business to understand the needs of our employees, customers and wider stakeholders to ensure we meet their current needs and enable their strategic objectives. The Digial & IT division is responsible for providing the organisation with the appropriate capabilities relating to Architecture, Analysis, Service Delivery, Infrastructure, Data, Reporting, Engineering and Information Security.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the subject matter expert for data within assigned business domains, providing guidance and support to stakeholders, project teams, analysts, and engineers.
• Define and maintain enterprise and domain-level data models, ensuring consistency, accuracy, scalability, and alignment with business requirements.
• Assess and review technical requirements and changes across business functions & projects. Demand management alignment with Architecture, Digital departments and the Data Delivery Team Leader to ensure that new proposed initiatives follow rigorous and effective evaluation and shaping. Oversee the delivery of technical solutions by being the lead in relevant project teams.
• Liaise with, educate, and positively influence stakeholders on the implementation of good data and reporting practices including supporting the adoption and maintenance of fully accountable data stewards throughout the business.
• Work closely with the Architecture team to create artefacts needed of the data architect and support the business areas under your remit to create and maintain lineage documentation, business definitions and other key data artefacts for existing and new data feeds and stores and reports.
• Work closely with Data Management team to ensure continuous improvement on data completeness and accuracy can be incorporated to deliverables.
• Conduct exploratory and investigative analysis on new and existing data sources.
• Provide cross project coordination regarding data integration issues and define rules for consolidation and transformation.
• Ensure the capture, consolidation and dissemination of knowledge related to improving data and reporting practices across the team.

Skills and Experience

Vision and Capability

Lead by example, maintain expert knowledge of business processes and how they are supported by data and reporting and associated data models and tools to offer subject matter expert guidance and technical direction.

Leading Change

Act as a change agent to improve the definition, use and capability of data and information across the UK business. Engage and inspire employees at a individual/team and functional level for the Ayvens future roadmap. Be courageous in the activation of change, be that minor or organisational. Implement effective plans, including clear communication, vision, and stakeholder engagement to energise the team and the wider organisation in achieving business goals.

Collaborating and Influencing

Collaborate effectively with other teams, departments, divisions and entities where required to drive business success and people engagement. Be a leader and focus energy and talent on collective success. Mastery in providing clear, concise and relevant advice and summarisation of projects.

Curiosity

Keen interest in understanding new technologies and their business applications. Stay up to date with industry and technical trends, best practice, and regulatory requirements to drive business benefit.

Decision Making

Competently manages cross-team technical dependencies demonstrating appropriate levels of autonomy in decision making and can progress despite missing information.

Social & Culture

Champions company values and introduces and implements new ideas to foster wider team cohesion and a positive working environment.

Technical Capabilities

• Experience with enterprise data platforms, preferably SAPBW and at least 3+ years on Azure with Databricks and PowerBI
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise data architecture, data warehousing principles, and data modelling methodologies including Kimball and Data Vault and designing the business semantic layer.
• Strong understanding of data integration architectures, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, event-driven integrations, and enterprise data flows.
• Ability to produce and maintain architectural artefacts including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, data dictionaries, and report dictionaries.
• High-level knowledge of cloud opportunities and the ability to turn theoretical approaches into sustainable, robust and secure data ecosystems

Desired Previous Experience

• Significant experience in a Data Architect, Data Solution Architect, Lead Data Engineer, or similar senior data role.
• Proven experience on supporting Finance and Credit Risk domains with their data modelling needs.
• Proven experience owning and governing enterprise data models, supporting complex data estates spanning operational systems, data warehouses, reporting platforms, and analytical solutions.

What we offer Rewards & Financial Benefits

Competitive pension scheme, Annual salary review and bonus scheme, EV company car, Give As You Earn (GAYE) scheme, Employee referral scheme (£1,000) Retail discounts programme, GymFlex membership options, Cycle to Work scheme Health & Wellbeing Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Health assessment options, Travel insurance, Dental insurance, Critical illness cover, Personal accident insurance Time Off & Work–Life Balance 25 days’ annual leave + an additional Celebration Day, 37.5 hour week, Monday to Friday, no weekends, Holiday buy & sell scheme, Volunteer days, Time allocated for personal development, Study support (where applicable).

Workplace & On‑Site Facilities

Free parking (limited), EV charging points, Bike storage & shower facilities, Complimentary breakfast, Staff and social events

Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for an opportunity unless they exactly meet the criteria specified. At Ayvens we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, enjoyable and authentic workplace so if you are excited by this, or any role at Ayvens but your experience or current hours don’t exactly align, we would encourage you to apply regardless!

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Why Ayvens?

With over 3.1 million vehicles managed across more than 40 countries, we provide full-service leasing, flexible subscription services, fleet management services and multi-mobility solutions to customers of all sizes, including large corporates, SMEs, professionals, and private individuals. By leveraging our unique position to lead the way to net zero and further shape the digital transformation of the industry, we are well‑positioned to meet the evolving mobility needs of our clients and provide them with the solutions they need to thrive. At Ayvens, we believe that our success is driven by our commitment to customer satisfaction. Our team is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and technology‑enabled services that help our customers focus on their everyday business. We’re committed to sustainable mobility and have made it a core part of our strategy. In everything we do, we’re guided by the principles of authenticity, curiosity, commitment and collaboration. We aim to foster an organisation that's diverse in people and ideas, where everyone can thrive and be themselves, no matter who they are. Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to enable the transformation towards large scale adoption of sustainable mobility and provide our customers with the solutions they need to succeed. Follow our page for the latest updates, news, and insights.

With over 3.1 million vehicles managed across more than 40 countries, we provide full-service leasing, flexible subscription services, fleet management services and multi-mobility solutions to customers of all sizes, including large corporates, SMEs, professionals, and private individuals. By leveraging our unique position to lead the way to net zero and further shape the digital transformation of the industry, we are well‑positioned to meet the evolving mobility needs of our clients and provide them with the solutions they need to thrive. At Ayvens, we believe that our success is driven by our commitment to customer satisfaction. Our team is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and technology‑enabled services that help our customers focus on their everyday business. We’re committed to sustainable mobility and have made it a core part of our strategy. In everything we do, we’re guided by the principles of authenticity, curiosity, commitment and collaboration. We aim to foster an organisation that's diverse in people and ideas, where everyone can thrive and be themselves, no matter who they are. Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to enable the transformation towards large scale adoption of sustainable mobility and provide our customers with the solutions they need to succeed. Follow our page for the latest updates, news, and insights.