Data Technical Architect & Solutions Lead

Kainos; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Data Technical Architect (Consultant) in Belfast to design and deliver technical components within a larger data solution. You’ll collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Architects to integrate components into quality data solutions.

The role involves owning or contributing to technical designs, guiding development teams, and helping win/shape data projects. You will mentor staff and advance data practices across the practice.

Qualifications

• Experience of technical ownership for a component, sub-system or product (data ingestion, data streaming), including architecture, estimation, product planning and story creation
• Proficient in client interaction including communication of technical decisions to non-technical audiences
• Experience of applying standards for design (patterns), development (style guides), and operational readiness (automation, deployment)
• Experience of designing, building and productionising modern, distributed data-intensive applications
• Experienced in Java, Scala or Python and comfortable with multiple programming paradigms (functional, OO)
• Experience of deploying contemporary data stores such as object stores, document stores, key-value store, search, RDBMS, graph.
• Software development experience with data-processing platforms from vendors such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks
• Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, change data capture or data virtualisation
• Desirable: Comfortable with Data Warehouse methods and techniques
• Desirable: Actively shares their thoughts and views on data practices
• Desirable: AWS/Azure/GCP Certified in Data Services
• Desirable: Expertise in continuous improvement and sharing input on data best practice
• Desirable: Participation in development and/or technology communities.

Responsibilities

• Successfully implementing functional and non-functional designs
• Working closely with customer architects to agree functional and non-functional designs, including estimated effort, technical implications, and complexity
• Setting technical standards and works with engineers to ensure standards are upheld
• Managing and estimating timelines underpinning technical component delivery
• Contributing or owning technical solution design as part of a pre-sales process
• Making a significant contribution to the data analysis community and wider data and analytics capability
• Managing, coaching and developing a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

Data ingestion

Data streaming

Architecture

Client communication

Design patterns

Automation

Deployment

Databricks

AWS

Azure

GCP

Data integration

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Databricks

BigQuery

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Data Technical Architect (Consultant) in Belfast to design and deliver technical components within a larger data solution. You’ll collaborate with Solution Architects and Customer Architects to integrate components into quality data solutions.

The role involves owning or contributing to technical designs, guiding development teams, and helping win/shape data projects. You will mentor staff and advance data practices across the practice.