Data Architect

Our client, a distinguished player in the Defence & Security sector, is calling for a highly skilled Data Architect - Fabric to join their ranks on a permanent basis. The position is based at their cutting-edge facility in Farnborough, where innovation meets strategy in groundbreaking technology initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Leading the Data Fabric architecture end-to-end: including integration, processing, storage, metadata/lineage, governance and consumption patterns

Establishing and maintaining the architecture roadmap, encompassing technology evolution, capability increments and deployment waves across environments

Directing architecture for data integration and interoperability, implementing strategies for connectors, data sharing patterns and cross-domain data exchange approaches

Translating high-level architectural intent into reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails to ensure repeatable delivery by the engineering team

Running architecture governance and assurance, leading comprehensive data modelling across conceptual, logical, and physical levels

Providing hands-on leadership to a team of Data Fabric Engineers and Data Analysts, ensuring the platform's security, scalability, resilience, and operability as it evolves

Staying tuned to engineering practices to ensure designs are buildable, testable, and supportable

Communicating complex architectural concepts to senior stakeholders proficiently

Job Requirements:

Extensive experience in data architecture and/or data platform engineering with significant ownership of architecture on complex programmes

Demonstrable track record of evolving an established architecture through strategic roadmaps, standards, patterns, and governance

Proficient knowledge of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms with a deep understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, stewardship, and lifecycle management

Experience designing and governing architectures for constrained or mission-critical environments, including edge deployments and contested connectivity patterns

Experience leading engineering teams, providing clear technical direction and mentoring in multidisciplinary environments

ability to explain intricate architectural concepts to senior stakeholders with excellent written and verbal commun...