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 communication skills

Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with options to purchase additional days
• Access to Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal including Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, and Cinema Tickets
• Support for the Armed Forces community, maintaining Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Opportunities for volunteering, aiding charities and local communities

If you are a data architecture professional with a passion for defence and security and the drive to lead into the future, this could be your next career move.