GCP Data Architect

JR United Kingdom; Crawley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is looking for a Data Architect with expertise in GCP to define architecture and deliver data solutions. This role involves collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring data design consistency and compliance with information policies. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in data products, ETL, and related technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with Data Products, Data Mesh, ETL, EDW required.
• Ability to gather requirements from stakeholders effectively.
• Knowledge of enterprise information architecture essential.

Responsibilities

• Define Data Product Definitions, Architecture, and Roadmap.
• Lead delivery of complete Architectural Design with client stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with client information policies and standards.

Skills

Data Products

Data Mesh

ETL

EDW

Spark

Hive

Kafka

Pub-Sub

Stakeholder Management

Compliance

Tools

Jira

GCP

Harness

Azure

Job description

Role: Data Architect-GCP

Responsibilities include:

1. Defining Data Product Definitions, Architecture, and Roadmap.
2. Leading the delivery of complete Architectural Design in collaboration with client stakeholders.
3. Aligning designs with relevant strategies, roadmaps, and policies.
4. Gathering information requirements from IT and Business stakeholders, ensuring they are realistic and achievable.
5. Modeling information requirements for stakeholder understanding.
6. Understanding enterprise-wide information architecture and relating it to specific requirements.
7. Identifying solution strengths and weaknesses, and taking steps to mitigate weaknesses.
8. Defining the information roadmap for the project and wider programme.
9. Embedding the solution within the wider application and information landscape.
10. Ensuring data design consistency and facilitating knowledge transfer to the Engineering team.
11. Defining logical data interfaces and aiding in the physical design of data stores and interfaces.
12. Ensuring compliance with client information policies and standards.
13. Leading Architecture Committee governance approvals for artefacts.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with Data Products, Data Mesh, ETL, EDW
• Knowledge of Spark, Hive, Kafka, Pub-Sub
• Experience with Jira
• Experience on GCP, Harness, Azure

Additional Notes:

• UK Mortgages background experience is beneficial but not mandatory.
• Ability to support gathering requirements from stakeholders and ensure solution alignment.
• Understanding of enterprise information architecture and solution integration.
• Support for the physical and logical design of data solutions.
• Compliance with information policies and standards.
• Participation in governance and approval processes.