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  • Data Architect

  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Location: London
  • Sector: Architect
  • Salary: GBP 90000
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Technologies: Enterprise Data Architect Data Engineer Financial Services Insurance
  • Reference: 251121

Data Architect

Posted Thursday, 25 November 2021

Enterprise Data Architect – Data Engineer

 

Our client, one of the worlds largest commercial insurance companies with operations in 54 countries and territories has a need for a skilled Data Architect / Data Engineer to join its London based team.

The role is 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.

The role:

Do you have data engineering or architecture experience within the financial services industry? 

If you are interested in growing your skills and career within one of the largest commercial insurers in the world, then we would love to hear from you!

Data Architect will be responsible for the design of the enterprise-wide data architecture and supporting the development of the organisation's functional data strategy and roadmaps. The successful candidate will be responsible for first, determining and classifying which data assets should be treated as enterprise data, and then crafting the requirements, principles, designs and models that strengthen the effect of sharing such data across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

  • Delivering world class data capability which enables the business to realise value through consistent, accurate, reliable, and high-quality data and innovative data, reporting and analytical solutions
  • Reinvent real time data automation, continues integration and deployment in the regulated environment by embedding right control points in our key Agile processes to achieve strong compliance and balanced velocity; while reducing friction between data governance, information architecture and data engineering teams
  • Development and delivery of big data solutions to enable a step change of insight into the high volumes of data across the global business functions
  • Leading changes to data capabilities that anticipate changes to the business’ strategic direction using the full capabilities in the data systems & insights centres of excellence
  • Responsible for the development of the requirements, principles, models and designs for the future-state enterprise data and analytics architecture
  • Carry-out a gap analysis between the future-state and current-state data architectures, and work with other enterprise architects to develop roadmaps for the careful and planned transition to the future state.
  • Evaluate emerging trends such as big data, open data and linked data, and determine the impacts on the future-state enterprise data architecture.
  • Champion efforts to improve business performance through enterprise information solutions and capabilities, such as master data management, metadata management, business intelligence, content management, data integration, and related information management or information infrastructure components.
  • Coordinate the implementation of enterprise data architecture through the organisation's enterprise data management programmes and govern data architects in the appropriate data-modelling and data design activities.
  • Facilitate the development of a corporate data policy that outlines the appropriate data stewardship and data requirements, as well as the service-level agreements, to support the appropriate quality and use of information in business processes.
  • Prepare conceptual and logical subject area models and implementation-level details that affect the continuum of disciplines involved in the architecture, design, implementation and management of enterprise information.

  

Knowledge & Experience

  • Degree level educated or equivalent project-related experience.
  • Experience in large multinational financial services industry
  • Experience within an enterprise data engineering or architecture role
  • In-depth experience in designing and implementing enterprise-wide cloud data and analytics platforms
  • Hands-on architecture and delivery experience in large scale, multi-functional data management solutions
  • Hands-on experience architecting and implementing large scale multi field master data management, data lake, business intelligence, data warehouse, and data quality solutions are a must have.
  • Experience in architecting enterprise knowledge graph capability from design to implementation. 

Whats on offer

A salary of up to £90,000 & pension scheme, 25 days annual leave plus ability to purchase 5 additional days, Private Medical cover, Employee Share Purchase Plan, Life Assurance, Subsidised gym membership, Comprehensive Learning & development offerings.

Employee resource groups: Gender Equality Network, Abilities & Wellbeing, Social Mobility, Parents & Carers, Pride Network, Cultural Awareness Network.

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