Architect (Data)

greene king; Greenlawn (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the pub sector seeks a Data & AI Architect to shape their data and AI strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles. You will work closely with senior stakeholders and contribute to significant data-driven projects designed to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.

Benefits

Agile working policy

33 days Holiday with the opportunity to buy additional days

33% discount on all brands

50% discount at Greene King Inns and hotels

Up to 4 times salary in life assurance

Discounted Dental & Health Insurance

Free employee assistance program

Refer a friend bonus

Retail discounts up to 30%

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong technical understanding of modern data and AI architecture frameworks.
• Extensive experience delivering in Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Ability to define standards and communicate solution designs.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver Data & AI architecture in line with organization goals.
• Create and maintain enterprise data & AI architecture assets.
• Work closely with technology teams to implement physical schemas.

Skills

Passion for data and AI

Technical understanding of data and AI architecture

Stakeholder management

Customer centricity

Data modelling tools

Education

Architecture Certification such as TOGAF

Experience within an IT Governance Framework

Job description

• Take responsibility for shaping and delivering Data & AI Architecture, workingclosely with the Lead Data Architect across change projects and programmes
• Develop and maintain alignment with GK’s Enterprise Data & AI Architectureprinciples, standards and methodology enabling the organisation to be a leading datadriven company
• Create and maintain enterprise data & AI architecture assets that meets datagovernance, regulatory and business requirements, mapping the businessrequirements to data requirements and defining how the data should be provisionedto the business to serve all of their needs to ensure consistency, ease of use andperformance
• Contribute to the common reference data and hierarchies in collaboration withData Stewards, Analysts and Business SME’s to agree and ratify these data sets
• Ensure that data definitions align to the enterprise data model and that thesedefinitions/models are adhered to on transformation programmes
• Work closely with technology teams to enable physical schemas to be implementedin the Data & Analytics solution that align to the enterprise data models
• Define the policies and standards for how data is used, stored, managed andintegrated and its data systems (operational and analytical)
• Define the data architecture as part of a data solution (e.g. ETL, data integration anddata migration) for a wider programme
• Building conceptual and physical data models, optimised for operational or analyticaluse cases
• Documentation of solutions (e.g. data models, configurations, and setup)
• Providing Quality Assurance, reviewing relevant development activity
• Contributing to the methods, standards and keeping abreast of the technicaladvances in data engineering for the Data Practice
• Design, deliver and implement Data & AI Architecture in line with the organisation'sgoals for data
• Proactively research latest developments and emerging trends in Data and AI. Andidentify how these can be applied to drive growth and efficiency withing GreeneKing

Company Description

At Greene King we believe Data and AI will enable us to deliver a step change in the pub
experience. We obsess over building best in class user and customer experiences across
our products. We will live up to being the pride of British hospitality by making sure we
deliver products that fit into our physical experiences seamlessly and to ensure our
customers come back time and time again.

Reporting to the Lead Data Architect you will play a key role in shaping, supporting and
delivering the Data & AI strategy and the wider enterprise architecture. You’ll be part of
shaping and executing the Greene King data architecture across IT; you’ll be heavily
involved with significant data & AI programmes and take accountability for a wide range
of different data-related tasks and activities designed to improve data across the board.

Additional Information

In reward for your hard work, you will receive...

You will receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• Agile working policy- Your time will be split with 50% working within our Burton on Trent office or pubs and 50% working from home
• 33 days Holiday –With the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days!
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands– so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels.– so, you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank
• Life Assurance –Up to 4 times your salary!
• Discounted Dental & Health Insurance
• Free employee assistance program– Mental Health, well-being, Financial, and Legal support because you matter!
• Refer a friend– Who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you will a bonusfor referring them!
• Retail discounts –Receive up to 30% of at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…
• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands– As one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.

Qualifications

• A demonstrable passion for data and AI, as well as for technology in general
• Strong technical understanding of modern data and AI architecture frameworks andapproaches
• Ability to define standards, patterns & building blocks within an architecturalframework
• Extensive experience of delivering in both an Agile and Waterfall environment
• Ability to create and communicate solution designs, following key architecturalprinciples to inform business cases and project starts
• Strong stakeholder management skills – ability to work at a senior level in aprofessional manner
• Comfortable in presenting complex data and information to non-technical audiences
• Customer centric- putting the customer at the heart of everything you do
• Broad understanding of technology disciplines covering application, integration,hosting, networking, security (required)
• Skilled in using at least one data modelling tool to develop normalised data modelswith the ability to reverse engineer from physical to logical models
• Track record in supporting the development of common data platforms (ideallyusing Azure or Data Bricks components)
• Experience of the Retail or Hospitality sectors (desirable)
• Architecture Certification such as TOGAF (desirable)
• Good technical awareness of common software platforms and packages
• Experience of working within an IT Governance Framework (inc Technical Design
• Authority and Change Advisory Boards) (desirable)