Data Architect

4 weeks ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom Roke Full time


About Roke

Roke imagines a more secure world. A world where technology protects, rather than exposes. A world where expert engineers, consultants and business support staff collaborate to protect what matters most to our clients.

We are a friendly and flexible team with a culture of ‘time, trust and freedom’. The role may give the opportunity to work on client site, from the office, in shared workspaces or from home as necessary. We pride ourselves on listening to each other’s aspirations and accommodating wherever possible.

Our customers often come to us with niche, challenging problems that matter to their business, looking for experts to develop solutions by applying their experience and knowledge in novel, creative ways. Our projects range in duration from early feasibility studies lasting a few months, through the entire engineering lifecycle, to multi-year support for production-grade software systems, with engineers switching between these in line with their career aspirations and development plans.

The Opportunity

Roke is recruiting for a Data Architect who is driven by solving varied and interesting client problems. Data Architect will be responsible for the strategy, architecture and high level design of data intensive solutions, and will also support Client Managers directly in a pre-sales capacity to develop relationships and solutions that can support future business growth.

For this specific role, we are seeking someone with strong experience in data strategy and governance, who can design data pipelines and data platforms for both structured and unstructured data applications, they will be supported by a team of data engineers to deliver on the strategy and designs.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for supporting the development of capability within their own technical area. This senior position will be pivotal to capability development through; involvement with business development activities, supporting our account managers in the development of customer offerings to address market drivers, identifying opportunities to develop/exploit our own IP in our target proposition space, as well as understanding and documenting the customer’s requirements for distribution to the engineering team. 


Areas of Responsibility/Tasks:

Help Defence customers develop their strategy for data as a strategic asset and define the appropriate level of governance needed and the appropriate processes. Communicate the data strategy to non-technical stakeholders and technical experts. Define and the architecture for data software and analytics solutions, either as standalone engagements or within a larger multi-disciplinary programme environment. Support the Sales and Campaign functions to develop and foster client relationships and elaborate high level technical requirements. Represent Roke and its technical solutions and capabilities toward client communities. Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior members of the team.  Complying with Roke’s policies and procedures.

Why We Want You 

Beyond your technical skills, you will be proactive and able to communicate effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. You will work well alone or as part of a team. You will be curious and seek out the best approach/solution/tool for the job at hand. Essential skills/experience: Alongside your skills with Data specific technologies, you have a broad technical background which allows you to rapidly understand new systems and domains, and prototype solutions based on your experience and hands on approach. As a Data Architect, you will have a degree level qualification in a STEM subject, or you will have an education and level of experience which is comparable. You will have: Experience of Data Architecture and Data Strategy in a UK Defence or other Public Sector context. Good understanding of structured and unstructured data, and the techniques needed to exploit them in different ways. Experience of working with Data and Software Engineers to provide deliverable solutions to complex data problems. Experience of working in an Agile Framework Appreciation of the different approaches required when working with cloud solutions versus traditionally hosted systems. Experience of working with in Business Development and contributing to complex technical bids.

Desirable skills/experience:

Experience of building specifying Data Pipelines in a Cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP) Knowledge of commercial and contractual frameworks  Scrum-master and/or Product Owner experience.

Why You Should Join Us

We offer an attractive salary and benefits package, including bonus scheme, private medical insurance, employee assistance program and pension along with a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection & Life, Leisure and Entertainment. 

Roke has a great community of groups with shared interests. These enable people to share ideas and be passionate about tools, technologies & techniques.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative and inclusive. We will consider flexible working arrangements and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.

Security

Due to the nature of this position, candidates must already hold current SC Clearance or be willing and eligible to obtain this. To qualify, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC and 10 years for DV.
We will provide you with assistance in transferring your clearance, we also offer a high level clearance bonus. 

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