EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
- Experience of planning and delivering Agile at Scale and Business Change Programmes
- Evidence an ability to work closely with specialists in IT departments and with partners to deliver data architecture infrastructure, tools and solutions
- To provide a technical and infrastructure expert view for procurement decisions and to influence decisions based on best practise and current industry thinking
- Experience and understanding of the practical implementation of data security, access control and data protection principles and legislation, including DPA, CPIA, MoPI, ISO standards, and cloud security principles
- Broad experience of different Data Store and Data Processing technologies for scalable infrastructure and autonomous data integration using CI/CD tools
- Experience in documenting design decisions, principles and data relationships/models
- Experience in performing analysis, design & delivery for data management and data driven projects
- Experience working in a law enforcement, government, or other secure environments
- The data architect must sign our confidentiality agreement
- The data architect must already be vetted to NPPV3 / SC/ MV and provide evidence of this
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Experience in the requirements elicitation process with various departments across a complex organisation in order to create a data architecture strategy that is aligned to business objectives
- The recommended data solution must be cloud compatible or a hybrid solution. Cloud solution development experience would be beneficial to assist in identifying the best cloud-based service for the project
- A comprehensive understanding of data warehousing and data transformation (ETL) processes and the supporting technologies (such as Amazon Glue, EMR, Azure Data Factory, Data Lakes)
- Experience implementing data solutions, in code languages such as Azure RM Templates, CloudFormation Templates, (json/YAML), PowerShell, Python, R