hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
As a Data Architect within our multi-channel, multi-brand business, you will play a pivotal role in designing and building leading-edge data solutions and models. Working closely with Product Owners and the Engineering community, you will ensure the delivery of optimal data solutions that align with business requirements. Your responsibilities include triaging new requirements, assessing their impact, and providing estimates for modifying data models. You will also develop and enhance business physical data models to meet evolving needs while driving alignment as necessary. Acting as the custodian of data models, you will define and own modelling within delivery teams and ensure adherence to standards and principles. It will be your duty to create solutions that fulfil business needs and align with the end‑state architecture, while simultaneously documenting, communicating, and centrally managing data models appropriately.
Collaborating with the broader architecture community, you will share your expertise to promote alignment and innovation across Sainsbury’s Tech. As an experienced Data Modeller or Architect, you bring passion for creating order within reporting structures and a comprehensive understanding of Data Warehousing/Analytic end‑to‑end architecture. Your proficiency with various modelling methodologies such as 3NF, Dimensional, and Data Vault is essential, and staying up to date with industry advancements, including machine learning and modern algorithmic techniques at scale, will be valuable in driving data design best practices. Strong communication and influencing skills enable you to advocate for and implement these best practises at the Engineering and Product Manager levels. A curious and driven mindset will empower you to comprehend business processes and the data they generate, leveraging opportunities to structure and utilise this data for driving business value.
Who You Are
As a Data Architect for our multi‑channel, multi‑brand business, you are a skilled and experienced professional who thrives in working with vast and complex data sets. With a passion for creating order within reporting structures, you possess expertise in data warehousing, analytic end‑to‑end architecture, and various modelling methodologies such as 3NF, Dimensional, and Data Vault. Your knowledge of the latest industry developments, including machine learning and modern algorithmic techniques at scale, enables you to design and build leading‑edge data solutions that deliver valuable insights and enhance the overall customer experience. You have experience in canonical modelling, publication service/microservice‑based schematic design. Your strong communication and influencing skills, combined with curiosity and drive to understand business processes and leverage data for driving business value, make you a valuable asset in shaping and designing new products and services within your organisation’s data architecture.
Essential Criteria
- Experience working with semi‑structured, high‑volume data, ideally in Digital tagging or Analytics area.
- Strong skills in stakeholder management.
- Hands‑on experience in DV 2.0 and Kimball dimensional data modelling.
- Clear understanding of the differences between Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data modelling, and ability to demonstrate these distinctions.
- Experience in a Matrix reporting structure.
- Ability to serve as the Architecture custodian for the squad, ensuring standards and principles are followed.
- Knowledge of Data products.
- Technical expertise in designing ELT pipelines.
