Senior Data Consultant and Architect (Stratford-Upon-Avon)

What's this role about?

As a Senior Data Consultant, you will be responsible for providing advisory and thought leadership on the migration to Azure/ Databricks Data Cloud or implementing data solutions using Data Cloud services including integration with existing data and analytics platforms and tools. You will contribute in pre-sales and design, implement scalable data architectures, and information solutions covering data security, data privacy, data governance, metadata management, multi-tenancy and mixed workload management, and provide delivery oversight.

Here's how you'll contribute:

Senior Data Architect at Zensar participates in end to end cycle from opportunity identification to its closure and takes up complete ownerships of project execution and provide valuable expertise in the project. You will do this by:

• Work with different customers to consult on technical solutions
• Provide technical thought leadership to senior stakeholders
• Understanding requirements and writing technical documents
• Planning end to end technical scope of the project and customer engagement area including planning sprint and delivery
• Responding to client RFI, RFP documents with proper solution design including cost estimates
• Understanding customer requirements and create technical proposition
• Contributing to SoWs, technical project roadmaps, etc required for successful execution of projects leveraging Technical Scoping & Solutioning approach
• Managing and owning all aspects of technical development and delivery
• Ensuring code review and developing best practises
• Estimating effort, identifying risk and providing technical support whenever needed
• Demonstrating the ability to multitask and re prioritizing responsibility based on dynamic requirements

Skills required to contribute:

• 12-15 Years of Data and Analytics experience with minimum 7 years in Azure Cloud
• A wealth of experience creating data architectures and models in a large, consumer-orientated organisations.
• Proven experience in consulting and delivering end to end solutions, high level architecture and associated principles to include data sourcing, integrations/flows, usage, whilst retaining policy compliance.
• Ability to design and model a modern data platform and be able to think about how data is used and delivers value to the business
• Experience of successfully and confidently engaging with senior stakeholders and being able to translate the key business drivers and requirements into Data Models and Solution Design.
• Strong communication, able to present ideas well to a variety of colleagues and clients, and author clear and succinct documents. Translate design and requirements into a format that is understood by a non-technical audience
• Proven record in creating low level solution designs aligned with the high-level architecture and principles.
• Experience with a variety of modern data design and management tools, e.g., ER_Studio, Collibra, Precisely, OneTrust
• Experience in MDM / DQM / Data Governance technologies like Collibra, Atacama, Alation, Reltio
• Experience with the modern data, analytics and business intelligence tools, - Promethium, Databricks, Spark, Fabric, SQL, Python, and PowerBi is a must
• Business Analysis and requirement gathering: End-to-end experience of gathering and documenting requirements to deliver Solutions Designs that meet business objectives.
• Experience handling multiple projects and priorities, managing timescales and delivery across a virtual, technical, cross-functional team
• Robust knowledge of GDPR and likely implications on data management
• Experience operating with an engineering, agile and devops mindset. Technical expertise with Git, Jira, etc.
• 3-5 years of experience working for Insurance organisations in UK is a must

How we’d like you to lead:

Take part in and host regular knowledge sharing sessions, mentor more junior members of the team and support the continuous development of our practice.

We also want you to:

• Share project stories with the wider business.
• Provide recommendations and best practices for application development, platform development, and developer tools
• Actively stay abreast on industry best practices, share learnings, and experiment and apply cutting edge technologies
• Provide technical leadership and be a role model/coach to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
• Provide/inspire innovations that fuel the growth of Intuit as a whole and generate creative ideas for emerging business needs
• Create content to promote your personal brand and Zensar to the world.
• Live Zensar's values, both, internally and externally