Data Architect – 6-month contract – Hybrid London
Data Architect – 6-month contract – Hybrid London
Leading professional services firm require a Data Architect to work on an internal transformation project.
Key responsibilities
- Support and help to embed best practices data architecture principles in client’s environment
- Contribute to and maintain data architecture repository (data flows, lineage, models and catalogue)
- Support the assurance of data deliverables as part of client’s technology projects.
- Provide advice and guidance to internal technology projects.
- Where necessary, lead the data workstream on large technology transformations.
- Support the management of project data architects.
- Support the delivery of data model, providing expert guidance to our enterprise data modellers.
- Support data models governance process and ER/Idera repository
- Contribute to data dictionaries and business glossaries
- Data Lineage diagrams and Data mapping
Key skills/requirements
Technical
- Very strong Data Architecture & data modelling skills.
- Able to articulate the data vision and mission when engaging with internal & external clients.
- Proved experience in designing and implementing metadata management capabilities.
- Business mindset to understand organisation business capabilities.
- Experience in data harvesting and business catalogue tools.
- Understanding of data management concepts such as data analysis, traceability, lineage, system of record and authority, master data and reference data.
- Good understanding of DAMA framework and content.
- Experience of Microsoft data technology stack and Databricks
- Understanding of defining data schemas and ETL/ELT solutions for the consumption, validation, and secure storage of data
- Understanding of regulatory obligations related to data management and comfortable working within in a highly regulated framework.
This is a hybrid contract requiring 2/3 days a week in the City of London with the rest remote. Daily rate is circa £550 per day outside of IR35. Initially this is a 6 month contract with the view to extend.