Senior Data Architect

Public Sector Resourcing, managed by AMS; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public sector organization is seeking a Senior Data Architect for a 6-Month remote contract with occasional trips to London. This role is critical in shaping the data vision of the organization, ensuring compliance, and innovative data practices. Candidates should possess SC Clearance and a strong background in data architecture. Knowledge of Microsoft data technologies and modelling frameworks is required. This position requires a proactive approach to monitoring data solutions and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Background in data architecture, software development, data engineering, or technology.
• Understanding of data governance and management processes.

Responsibilities

• Set vision for data use through design to meet business needs.
• Build data models to fulfill strategic data needs.
• Provide guidance for managing and archiving data.
• Monitor services and identify trends to resolve issues.
• Design data architecture for specific business problems.
• Collaborate with data product teams.

Skills

Communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Data profiling and source system analysis

Assurance of data solutions and recommendations

Knowledge of data modelling frameworks and standards

Develop data standards

Work with metadata repositories

Monitoring services and identifying trends

Design data architecture

Consult with data product teams

Knowledge of Microsoft data technologies

Knowledge of various data patterns

Knowledge of data management and governance processes

Education

Professional qualifications in data

Tools

Microsoft Purview

SQL Server

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

MooD

Visio

erwin

Job description

Overview

On behalf of FCDO, we are looking for a Senior Data Architect (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month Remote contract with occasional trips to London.

Note: DV would be preferred however, SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position, (and speed at which we require a postholder in situ), preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Sets the vision for the organisations use of data, through data design, to meet business needs.
• Designs and builds data models to fulfil the strategic data needs of the business as defined by chief data architects.
• Design, support and provide guidance for the upgrade, management, de-commission and archive of data in compliance with data policy; provide input into data dictionaries.

Skills we need

• Translate and accurately communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Undertake data profiling and source system analysis.
• Responsible for the assurance of data solutions and make recommendations. Aware of opportunities for innovation with new tools.
• Produce, maintain and update relevant data models. Knowledge of modelling frameworks and standards (UML, TOGAF etc) and tools (MooD, Visio is fine, erwin is better).
• Develop data standards for a specific component (relational, dimensional, patterns, FAIR principles etc, x-gov and industry best practices and standards).
• Work with metadata repositories to complete complex tasks (MS Purview).
• Initiate actions, monitor services and identify trends to resolve problems.
• Design data architecture to address specific business problems.
• Work with data product teams (FCDO staff and other suppliers) who have a range of data knowledge and competence. Your ability to consult and represent the data architecture function is key to define how teams can deliver good data architecture.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Purview of benefit and familiarity with Microsoft data technologies, from PaaS (SQL Server, Synapse) to SaaS (Fabric), and Databricks is required. Knowledge of the Microsoft stack and Databricks or the ability to learn new technologies quickly and how your baseline data architecture skills can be applied.
• Knowledge of a range of data patterns and data types - relational, dimensional, structured and unstructured data, medallion architecture pattern, API patterns, security, integrations.
• Knowledge of data management and governance processes and practices (DMBoK).

Qualifications

• Professional qualifications and a background in data is expected, where candidates will likely have come from a background that provides a good data architecture foundation, such as software development, data engineering and technology and infrastructure.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".