Data Architect
Posted 4 days ago by Totaljobs
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Bradford (BD1), BD1
Summary: The Data Architect role involves advising and documenting standards for implementing data as a product within a leading national business. The position requires defining technical data architecture and engineering standards for cloud-based data products, ensuring they meet specific characteristics such as discoverability and security. The successful candidate will guide internal stakeholders and third-party partners in migrating to a "data as a product" framework. This is a hybrid position based in West Yorkshire, with a focus on collaboration and leadership in data engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Advise and document standards for implementing data as a product.
- Define technical data architecture and engineering standards for cloud-based data products.
- Establish naming standards, key consistency, and data set layering for BigQuery.
- Define user view definitions and aggregation standards for Looker Semantic Layer.
- Set metadata and documentation standards for Looker and BigQuery.
- Design schema standards including flattened views and semantic descriptions.
- Implement partitioning and clustering standards.
- Guide internal stakeholders and third-party partners in data product migration.
Key Skills:
- Experience in data architecture and engineering.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically GCP and BigQuery.
- Ability to define and implement data standards and policies.
- Strong understanding of data product characteristics and requirements.
- Leadership skills to guide stakeholders and delivery partners.
- Experience with Looker and data lake management.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Bradford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Data Architect
Location: West Yorkshire / hybrid
Rate: £TBC
Duration: 6 months + extensions
What's needed. We're recruiting on behalf of a leading national business to find an experienced Data Architect who can advise and document the standards needed to implement #data as a product# (DAAP). For a data mart to be defined as a product, it needs to have the following characteristics
- It should be discoverable
- It should be valuable
- It should be self explicable
- It should be addressable
- It should be interoperable
- It should be accessible/performant
- It should be secure
- It should be trustworthy
We are looking for someone to help us define the technical data architecture and engineering standards needed to make the above statements true for the data products which are built the cloud (GCP, BigQuery, Looker data lake). These standards will include
- BiqQuery Layout - naming standards, key consistency, suffix standards, data set layering etc
- Looker Semantic Layer - user view definitions, dimensions grouping, aggregation definitions, hidden join management
- MetaData and Documentation - Looker and BQ field description standards
- Schema Design standards - flattened views, deterministic types, order consistency, semantic description, enum constraints etc
- Partitioning and clustering standards
- Policy Tags
- Star Schema Design standards
Our client will also need to understand how to implement these standards as code and how they monitor adherence as their data engineering supplier builds the data products.
The role requires a thought leader who can help guide both internal stakeholders and help drive the behaviours of 3rd party delivery partners. Someone who's been there and done it in terms of migrating an enterprise organisation to a "data as a product" framework.