Data Warehouse Decommissioning - Tech Architect - £700 outside
Posted Today by Investigo Change Solutions
£700 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Gloucestershire, UK
Summary: The role of Technical/Solution Architect focuses on leading a Data Warehouse Decommissioning project for a key client in the Financial Services sector. The position requires expertise in assessing and managing data warehouses, particularly with Snowflake, to optimize costs and capacity. The contract is for 6 months with a hybrid working arrangement, requiring 3 days on-site in Gloucestershire. The ideal candidate will have a tenacious personality and strong stakeholder management skills to drive project success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the Data Warehouse Decommissioning project.
- Assess current databases and their architecture.
- Advise on database capacity and cost efficiency.
- Archive databases for future access.
- Enable cost-effective resurrection of decommissioned databases.
- Drive real-time analysis over batch processing.
- Manage stakeholder communications and recommendations.
Key Skills:
- Experienced Technical/Solution Architect.
- Data warehouse decommissioning experience.
- Knowledge of Snowflake databases.
- Ability to assess database architecture.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working under tight deadlines.
- Tenacious personality.
Salary (Rate): £700 daily
City: Gloucestershire
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Technical/Solution Architect - Data Warehouse Decommissioning - £700 (Outside) - 6 months
Investigo are supporting the hire of a Technical/Solution Architect to drive a Data Warehouse Decommissioning project with key client.
- c.£700 p/day (Outside IR35)
- Hybrid - 3 days on site in Gloucestershire (travel & accommodation expenses paid)
- 6 months (with view to extend)
- November start date (ideally ASAP)
- Interviews w/c 3rd November
Role Background:
This client are supporting a number of key initiatives within a Financial Services organisation. This phase is focusing on the effective decommissioning of a number of current data warehouses and databases.
Required Experience:
- You need to be an experienced Technical/Solution Architect with data warehouse decommissioning experience
- Able to look at, and assess, current databases (Snowflake) and understand the architecture of these databases.
- Understand which databases are a drain on capacity/cost, etc and advise the client on what they do/don't need
- Experienced in archiving databases to still be used/accessed for future use
- Enable any decommissioned databases to be cost-effectively resurrected when needed
- Understand the need to drive Real Time analysis over batch
- Snowflake experience would be ideal, but wider DWH decommissioning experience is ok.
Additional info:
- Financial services background is ideal, but other backgrounds considered.
- Tenacious personality in getting the job done
- Experienced in delivering to tight timescales and working under pressure
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to explain why making certain recommendations/decisions
Please submit your CV via the link to be considered.