Azure Data Architect

The Role:

Data Architect is required to join the progressive data tech team within a vibrant global insurance organisation. This role will address technical business needs with innovative, efficient data solutions. You will support the definition of technical and data strategies for data services and actively anticipate potential future risks and act to prevent them or to mitigate their effects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Address technical business needs with innovative, efficient solutions
• Support the definition of the technical vision and strategy for the data platform
• Direct data engineering teams (in DataTech division) in the design and development of high-performance solutions and IT infrastructure
• Lead effort to design and architect the data platform to support different methods to ingest and process data, presenting at review boards as necessary
• Adhere to all architecture and design best practice highlighting inconsistent practices and drive consistency
• Develop reusable patterns, templates and architecture artefacts to ensure project delivery is optimized
• Set the technical architecture standards and patterns across the team
• Align the architecture approach with the overall Group’s architecture strategy
• Drive improvements in architectural governance within DataTech
• Interact with the delivery team to help to ensure successful delivery of each sprint iteration and product
• Meet data and security compliance regulations as part of application design and implementation
• Develop database and architecture documentation to share with management and implementation teams
• Work with Data Architects and Specialists around the wider Group
• Provide technical leadership to the Data Warehouse teams
• Help govern designs and artifacts produced by 3rd party implementation teams
• Lead on database technology

Key Requirements:

• Experience in a Data Architect role
• Experience in using Azure cloud platforms, including core data services
• Experienced with data and analytic applications build processes at all stages of the software development lifecycle
• A comprehensive understanding of data warehousing, extract, transform and load both at a software and hardware level
• Experience in data modelling and use of modelling tools
• Experienced in automating inclusion of logical data model into physical models (e.g. API specs, specifying business rules)
• Experience in Agile project environment
• Experienced leader to guide a team, delivering sophisticated projects
• Highly organized, with good planning/prioritization/time management skills
• Exposure and experience of data and analytics architecture (data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouse, cubes, reporting, RDM, MDM, etc..)
• Exposure and experience  Azure data and analytics products and services (sql and nosql databases, data lake, synapse, data bricks, PowerBI)
• Reltio and Collibra exposure beneficial
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership and communication skills with both business and technical partners
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Knowledge of London insurance market – beneficial

For a full consultation please email your CV to Arc IT Recruitment.