Data Solution Architect

Fruition IT Resources Limited

Role – Data Solution Architect
Package – £80,000 + £6k car + 10% bonus
Location – Any office across the UK circa 1-2 month on site

A national company within the renewable energy space are looking for a talented Data Solutions Architect to lead the designing of their target data architecture.

You will be responsible for defining strategy, designing, and overseeing the implementation of complex IT solutions.

As a Data Solution Architect you will lead designing work across Datamodelling, data governance, data integration, data pipelines and visualisation. You will design solutions across on-prem and cloud platforms.

This is an excellent chance to join a well funded company focused on helping businesses and organisations lower their carbon footprint and de-carbonise our atmosphere.

Job Purpose:

* Establish and enforce principles and requirements for their data architecture, ensuring solution compliance.
* Define data platform capabilities aligned with current and future business models.
* Drive incremental evolution of enterprise data governance strategy.
* Manage enterprise data map, including logical model, lineage, and transmission details.
* Create comprehensive technical documentation for proposed technology solutions.
* Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure business needs are met.
* Catalogue, coordinate, and apply architecture models within Enterprise Architecture Framework.
* Engage with suppliers for solution requirements and technology selection.

Key Responsibilities:

* Foster a unified view of data assets across the entire organisation.
* Ensure architecture designs align with their technical strategy, principles, and standards.
* Collaborate closely with Architecture practice members and Domain Architects to review and approve Solution Architecture approaches and options.
* Participate in Architecture and Governance Forums to conduct reviews of architecture and design activities.
* Accountable for delivering high-quality architectural artefacts that clearly explain the technical strategy and decisions.
* Provide guidance and support for performance tuning, troubleshooting, cost optimisation, and implementation challenges.
* Stay updated on evolving demands of modern data platform architecture, including structured and unstructured data, batch and streaming flows, and machine learning requirements.
* Manage the IT Data roadmap, investment, and implementation plan, ensuring alignment with business requirements.
* Drive data environment rationalisation to standardise, streamline, and simplify the landscape.
* Act as the focal point for Data Solution Architecture internally and in communication with their Group.
* Assist the Principal Solution Architect in developing and implementing an effective Enterprise Architecture Practice.

Key Relationships:

* Close collaboration with Principal Solutions Architect, other Domain Architects, IT Business Partners, Business Analysts, and Delivery team members.
* Regular interaction with Head of Technical Data Services.
* Collaboration with their Group Data Architects and Shared Line of Service (SLS) teams.
* Work with UK BU IT Senior Management team.
* Part of the their One IT Team spanning all their Group entities.
* Develop and maintain relationships with third-party vendors.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

* Demonstrated 3+ years’ experience as an IT Data Architect, designing enterprise-wide Data solutions for global organisations.
* Experience in designing solutions using at least one public cloud platform: AWS, Azure, GCP.
* Strategic thinker with knowledge of architecture governance and building blocks.
* Ability to develop and validate architecture roadmap, vision, and solution designs.
* Knowledge of current and future technologies and their impact on organisations, including infrastructure, enterprise applications, and integration services.
* Experience in logical and physical Datamodelling for transactional and analytical systems.
* Practical experience with ETL tools.
* Proficiency in data pipelines using Python and ability to define best practices and standards.
* Familiarity with AWS data technologies (eg, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, Glue).
* Understanding of BI tools such as Power BI, QuickSight, SAP Business Objects.
* Experience working in an agile development environment.
* Strong technical acumen for identifying trends and opportunities to support business transformation.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age