Data Architect

Role responsibilities

• Define and implement an enterprise data model covering services, systems, platforms and their relationships.
• Establish data ownership, stewardship, governance and life cycle principles.
• Design approaches for collecting, validating and maintaining architecture data.
• Evaluate enterprise architecture tools and support implementation of the chosen solution.
• Gather stakeholder requirements and define priority data domains.
• Develop sustainable processes and responsibilities for maintaining trusted information.
• Establish data-quality controls covering completeness, ownership and accuracy.
• Enable reporting, analysis, strategic planning and investment decisions.

Key experience and requirements

• Experience designing enterprise data models across large, complex technology estates.
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, information architecture, data ownership and governance.
• Experience taking data models from concept through to implementation and operation within Agile working environments.
• Experience with enterprise architecture or configuration-management tools; LeanIX, Ardoq, Alfabet or ServiceNow CMDB would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of data quality, lineage and life cycle management.
• AWS knowledge strongly preferred
• Strong stakeholder-management skills; central-government or wider public-sector experience is desirable.
• Active SC clearance mandatory