Data Architect Lead

1 month ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Amber Labs Full time

Job Title: Senior Data Architect

Location: Newcastle, onsite once a month

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to join our team at Amber Labs. As a Data Architect, you will play a key role in designing and implementing data capabilities architecture and patterns for lakes, warehouses, and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design data models and metadata systems
  • Help chief data architects interpret organisation's needs
  • Provide oversight and advice to other data architects who are designing and producing data artefacts
  • Design and support the management of data dictionaries
  • Ensure teams are working to standards set by chief data architects
  • Work with technical architects to ensure systems are designed according to appropriate data architecture
  • Listen to needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them
  • Effectively manage stakeholder expectations
  • Manage active and reactive communication
  • Support or host difficult discussions within team or with diverse senior stakeholders
  • Understand appropriate media to communicate findings
  • Shape communications for audience
  • Undertake data profiling and source system analysis
  • Present clear insights to colleagues to support end use of data
  • Evaluate and define data governance
  • Take responsibility for supporting and collaborating around wider governance
  • Assure and integrate data services to meet needs of multiple business services
  • Work proactively to ensure organisation designs architecture that considers data
  • Understand impact on organisation of emerging trends in data tools, analysis techniques, and data usage
  • Produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas
  • Explain which models to use for which purpose
  • Understand industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them
  • Compare and align different data models
  • Develop and set data standards across multiple subject areas
  • Act as escalation point for breaches of data standards and make recommendations about how organisation should resolve them
  • Design appropriate metadata repository
  • Suggest changes to improve current metadata repositories
  • Understand range of tools for storing and working with metadata
  • Advise less experienced members of team about metadata management
  • Ensure right actions are taken to investigate, resolve, and anticipate problems
  • Co-ordinate team to investigate problems, implement solutions, and take preventive measures
  • Work within strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals
  • Contribute to development of strategy and policies
  • Design data architecture that deals with problems spanning different business areas
  • Identify links between problems to devise common solutions
  • Work across multiple subject areas, or single large or complicated subject area
  • Produce appropriate patterns Key Technical Skills

Requirements:

  • Experience working with data capabilities architecture and patterns – lakes, warehouse, and cloud environments for data analysis/calculations
  • Use strategic patterns to build out approach and architectural diagram of solution
  • Work within engineering team to guide team members on best approach to take
  • AWS focused
  • Knowledge of Databricks and EMR
  • Knowledge of Kafka
  • Good communication and stakeholder management skills

What We Offer:

  • Rapidly expanding startup where personal growth is part of our DNA
  • Flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes
  • Private medical insurance through Aviva
  • Company pension plan through Nest
  • 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays
  • Access Perkbox, global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources
  • Participate in generous employee referral program
  • Highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement
  • Encouraged to take bold steps and embrace mindset of experimentation
  • Choose preferred device, PC or Mac

About Us:

Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes:

  • Valuing unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued
  • Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting culture of dignity and respect for all
  • Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create safe and inclusive workplace
  • By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building workplace that reflects and celebrates diversity of our employees and communities

Salary Estimate: £70,000 - £90,000 per year


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