Principal Data Architect in Farnborough

Infor is looking for a talented Data Architect to join our UK Infor SunSystems development team as we modernise our core data architecture underpinning our Multi‑Tenant cloud solution. SunSystems is a well‑established financial management solution with a depth of functionality that attracts thousands of B2B customers in multiple verticals around the globe. The solution is combined with real‑time analytics and is tightly integrated into Infor’s Technology platform.

SunSystems R&D UK team is based in Farnborough, working side by side with the rest of the organisation currently based in Hyderabad, India and Shanghai, China. We are currently working to accelerate our delivery work on new features and product modernisation, backing up existing team members and bringing in new team members who can help us drive transformation, innovate and build the future of SunSystems. This team will be part of a thriving Infor hub office in Farnborough.

As technical leader of our R&D Data Services team, the Data Architect works closely with DBAs, Software Architects, Developers and Product team to articulate the future state of data in SunSystems. As we modernise the solution and continue to grow a microservices architecture, we will be exploring new approaches to data and this team member will be a key player in defining future state, driving data related decisions (e.g. SQL/NoSQL, data architecture) and setting strategy for modernisation and transformation of the product data architecture.

We currently run with an Erwin data model and SQL Server and are seeking someone with understanding of traditional SQL databases, but equally importantly the successful candidate must be broad in their knowledge and experience and able to represent other data paradigms, best practise and innovation in data as we look to the future. The successful candidate will act as data technical authority, and will work side by side with our existing engineers in our data team as we take the product forward into an exciting and innovative future.

A Day in The Life Typically Includes:

• Defining data architecture, current and future state and strategy for modernisation.
• Co‑ordinating work across the data team, advising and acting as technical authority.
• Providing the key point for database expertise, assisting our Development, QA, Consulting Services, Support and CloudOps teams in resolving internal and Customer issues.
• Designing and building out the data persistence aspects of our future SAAS product architecture, whether this be SQL / NoSQL, database per service etc.
• Working with software architects towards the objective of having zero downtime (ZDT) upgrades.
• Ensuring privacy, security, performance, efficiency and high availability is designed in to our product.
• Working closely with scrum teams to complete data tasks alongside product development and co‑ordinate work across the DBAs in the data team.
• Working with other engineers on customer escalations where data is a factor, to support the investigation and resolution of issues.
• Ensuring that our data approach and data landscape is well documented and compliant with the Infor Secure SDLC and certification (e.g. ISO27001) requirements.
• Scope to also get involved in some other aspects of our work, in collaboration with our DevOps team, e.g. looking at efficiency of infrastructure, cost reduction exercises, high availability.
• Supporting product team and development leadership team to understand the current state of the product from a data perspective, its ability to scale, and to support future forecasting (e.g. of costs, infrastructure requirements, performance vs capacity).

What You Will Need:

• Strong experience of data architecture including both historic approaches and modern paradigms for best practise, gained in a software product development environment.
• Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases and ability to articulate and represent how different data paradigms can be used in different architectural approaches.
• Understanding of stateless architecture and the data‑related aspects of achieving stateless system design.
• Comprehensive experience of approaches to data privacy, security, performance and availability.
• Experience working in an Agile (pref. Scrum) and iterative development approach.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Enthusiasm and ability to collaborate well with others, including remote teams.
• Professional pride, drive and curiosity, a diligent self‑starter that keeps up to date with best practise and keeps your skillset sharp.

What Will Put You Ahead?

• Established experience with modernising legacy data architecture.
• Experience of Erwin data models.
• Experience with popular databases, e.g. MSSQL, Aurora/Postgres, DynamoDB.
• Experience of Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence).
• Experience with build technologies such as source code versioning (e.g. Git) and PowerShell scripting.
• Experience working in AWS data persistence, and knowledge of DevOps fundamentals advantageous.
• Strong ability to think through large abstract systems and processes, comfortable problem‑solving in complex data environments.
• Customer focused mindset, with the ability to understand end user requirements and consider how users work with software that you develop.
• Understanding of Accounting/Reporting/Financial applications, BI tools or experience with or exposure to Infor SunSystems and Query and Analysis, beneficial but not required.