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Enterprise Data Architect - Gatwick Airport

Employer
Gatwick Airport
Location
Crawley, West Sussex
Salary
£80000 - £90000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Closing date
16 Mar 2019

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Sector
Technology
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Enterprise Data Architect

Salary: £80000 - £90000, plus Bonus and Excellent Benefits

Role overview

The Enterprise Data Architect will be responsible for ensuring the proposed solutions and designs are aligned to business requirements and technology strategy. The role will include strong stakeholder engagement, to determine and shape the requirements and objectives into cohesive solutions that can be understood at all levels. The Architect will be expected to provide thought leadership to identify pragmatic and innovative solutions that are balanced against; project timeframes, available budgets, and future capability. The day to day tasks of the Architect will support the IT Project Delivery and IT Operations functions with a quick turnaround on expected deliverables.

Principal accountabilities
  • Develop an integrated IT technology roadmap and standards based on industry best practices, which enables IT to deliver secure, flexible but cost effective technology services to users and commercial customers
  • Actively publish and communicate the standards and roadmaps to align all key stakeholders
  • Have design authority over all technology based projects; provided in-house or by third parties
  • Develop and implement a governance structure and process over technology design and delivery
  • Promote and justify future technologies which will enhance business capability, user experience or cost base
  • Influence both internal and 3rd party project managers to adopt best practices when delivering technology projects.
  • Maintain up to date knowledge on industry trends, standards and opportunities and use this to promote continuous improvements in the services provided
  • Support the IT Delivery function providing subject matter expertise and producing related design artefacts
  • Support the IT Operations function in triage, troubleshooting and system optimisation
  • Support the IT product selection, through the "Request for Tender" process, with the ability to develop and support the relevant scoring matrix
  • Work in close collaboration with third party vendors and suppliers to determine the most viable solution options and cost implications
  • Work with the relevant stakeholders to understand and define data: needs, models, definitions, and taxonomies


Experience
  • Experience in developing conceptual, logical and physical data models; supporting transactional, operational and analytical based solutions
  • Proven track record in developing a cohesive data architecture within a complex IT environment
  • Experience in best of breed technologies and data modelling methodologies


A rounded skillset in system implementations and design that include:
  • Data Profiling
  • Integration through standard middleware solutions
  • Implementation methodologies such as waterfall and agile
  • Software tool selection
  • Identifying the relevant non-functional requirements
  • Data migration strategies and design
  • COTS implementations
  • Reporting, Datawarehousing and Big Data solutions
  • ETL design and optimisation
  • Experience in determining the appropriate data models aligned and relevant technologies aligned to the proposed solution and/or business requirements
  • Developing and leading the Data integration processes
  • Producing and enforcing the relevant templates, design patterns and best practices


Skills required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven ability to influence at all levels
  • Proven stakeholder management skills, with the ability to shape and translate business needs into comprehensive solutions
  • Ability to produce high and low level design documentation
  • Proven track record of mentoring team members
  • Ability to lead related initiatives from conception to implementation
  • Structured approach to formal architecture methodologies
  • Demonstrates creativity in identifying opportunities and finding solutions.


Qualifications
  • IT related Degree
  • Demonstrable experience of System Implementation related projects and design
  • Demonstrable experience in a significant Enterprise Data Architecture role
  • Architecture related certifications.

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