Data Architect

Data Architect
12 Months
Fully on site in Central London – Likely dropping to 3 days a week after a few months
£Market Rate (Inside IR35)

My client, in the capital markets sector, is looking for a senior data architect, who will be responsible for creating a data strategy across Front and Back Office. The expectation will be to document and understand the current data architecture, create a future state design, and roadmap to get there. The strategy needs to consider data governance, categorisation, tooling, and data platforms.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Documentation and categorisation of the firm’s enterprise data
• Designing data strategy, including governance
• Design of enterprise data platform
• Mentor team with data architecture knowledge
• Contribute to the department Cloud strategy

Skills and Experience required for this position:

• Substantial experience as a data architect
• Experience migrating and building enterprise data platforms in AWS
• Background in data development or engineering
• SQL
• Knowledge of the full trade lifecycle
• Self-starter and keen to drive initiatives to completion
• Keen intelligence and problem-solving ability
• Good communication/teamwork skills

Desirable skills that would be very beneficial for the candidate:

• Financial services domain knowledge
• Postgres / Aurora
• Spring, SpringBoot, JPA, Hibernate
• Maven, Jenkins

Additional details on the role:

• The role holder may be expected to control and/or process personal data, which may include sensitive categories of personal data, of either staff or clients.
• The role holder is responsible for being aware of the business’ GDPR obligations and ensuring that all tasks that control and/or process personal data are carried out in line with internal data protection policies and standards.

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