1. Strong Enterprise Architecture skills.
2. Proficient in data platform capabilities, data lifecycle management, data retention, data modeling, data product/Data as a Product concept, medallion architecture pattern and knowledgeable in cloud computing and modern development practices.
3. Skilled in solutions converting policies/data from legacy systems to modern platforms.
4. Experienced with data science platforms and DSML capabilities for model development, MLOps, etc.

Role Purpose:

The purpose of the Enterprise data Architect role is to: Ensure that the organization's IT strategy supports its business goals and objectives.

Create and maintain architecture views that describe the current and future state of the enterprise.

Develop data technology vision to fulfil business ambition & reduce costs.

Define target data architecture and agreed data roadmaps.

Communicate future IT architecture to sponsors and secure roadmap investment.

Establish policies and standards to ensure that IT investments and projects align with the overall architecture and business strategy

Assess new technologies in the data, data science and reporting and determine their potential impact on the enterprise

Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that architectural decisions meet the needs of the organization

Analyze, design, plan, and implement enterprise-wide strategies to align IT infrastructure with business goals. Alternatively, implement frameworks and best practices for data collection, storage, processing, and utilization from functional, non-functional, service, and security perspectives; Ensure these efforts progress the overall architecture journey and align with Client's 's IT Strategy

Deliver strategic change through solution architecture, delivery, vendors, and partners.

Lead Solution Architects to ensure solution quality and alignment to roadmaps, principles, and standards.

Govern change against Architecture standards.

Accountabilities

Nature of Work

Solutions and Assurance

Create solutions and design for projects to meet Client's 's standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance.

Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions.

Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals.

Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state.

Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.

Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases.

Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.

Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.

Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs.

Technical Leadership

Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company's architecture.

Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.

Support defining the architecture best practices and standards and enforcing them in the project solutions.

Conduct architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established guidelines.

Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder group for service, security, architecture, and engineering.

Peer reviews the design artefacts of others.

Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members as required.

Design Community membership.

Contribute to the Solution Architecture community across Client's Group leading on or participating in initiatives to improve Client's 's approach to design.

Develop your technical skills to support Client's 's need to understand and exploit emerging technology trends.

Problem Solving

The essence of the role is project- based problem solving.

Accountable for solving problems and dealing with difficulties in line with policy, process and other guidelines applying technical knowledge and expertise.

Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise.

Escalate problems according to guidelines.

Change

Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process, and other guidelines.

Accountable for recommending change based on expert know how and analysis.

Take personal initiative in adapting to change.

Internal collaboration

Build effective working relationships with:

Project managers and others on projects

Platform Managers and Specialist

Platform Architects and Designers

External interaction

Maintain liaison with suppliers and the relevant sources of technology to ensure the specialist knowledge is kept up to date.

Capabilities

Strong Enterprise Architecture skills

Proficient in data platform capabilities, data lifecycle management, data retention, data modeling, data product/Data as a Product concept, medallion architecture pattern and knowledgeable in cloud computing and modern development practices.

Skilled in solutions converting policies/data from legacy systems to modern platforms.

Experienced with data science platforms and DSML capabilities for model development, MLOps, etc.