PRINCIPAL DATA ARCHITECT
About this role
Careers Dedicated to building a business with a family feel We are proud of who we are as a company, and therefore we approach recruitment with very careful consideration and thought. Demand more Kick start your journey to a better career Dedicated to building a business with a real family feel. Despite being remote, we enjoy getting together socially at our company meetings. We have taken trips abroad (on us of course), hosted family BBQ’s in the summer (invites extended to teammates’ partners, children and pets). We try to make time for social events to be frequent features on our busy calendar. Passionate about problem-solving? We’re hiring PRINCIPAL DATA ARCHITECT PRINCIPAL DATA ARCHITECT | JOB DESCRIPTION Job title: Principal Data Architect Location: Hybrid with offices in Richmond upon Thames, London Salary: Competitive salary and generous benefits package Reports to: Practice Director SUMMARY Do you want to work for one of the UK’s fastest growing analytics consultancies who have a track record of delivering solutions to some of the UK’s best-known companies? Do you want to be truly valued for your input and work in an organisation that lives by core values in how it works with customers, partners and suppliers? Are you an experienced Microsoft Data Architect (Power BI, Azure and Fabric)? We are looking for you to join our team at an exciting stage in the company’s growth. Sempre Analytics is a high-growth analytics consultancy engaging with organisations to develop best in breed Planning, Integration, Data Warehousing, BI and Automation solutions to companies that include global insurers, housebuilders, universities, manufacturers and prominent retailers. Whether they are looking to increase their financial resilience, enhance their operational efficiency or make the smartest decisions possible, at Sempre we work alongside our customers to help them achieve their goals. Reporting to one of our Practice Directors you will use your interest in technology to translate our customers’ business strategy into target-state architecture. You will lead on advisory and pre-sales engagements, and work as part of a team to design and build innovate solutions, leading on the implementation and providing technical delivery capability. We provide our customers with a broad set of solutions that encompass data modelling, integration, reporting and data warehousing. We partner with a number of technology providers and cloud systems, including Microsoft, Informatica and IBM. We are building our Microsoft Practice, and you will play an integral part in the next stage of growth and ultimately, leading a team on this journey. Our projects will also require you to become an accredited specialist of the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, designing integrations and data solutions with Informatica at the heart of the project. This is a Hybrid role with a combination of working remotely and regular attendance at our Richmond office and UK based client sites as projects require. RESPONSIBILITIES Pre-sales activities, such as designing and delivering workshops to pitch the future of Microsoft and Informatica solutions to our customers. Design and develop customer solutions for data integration, application integration, data quality, data governance and master data management Conduct requirements gathering workshops, and scoping and design sessions with customers Work with the Practice Director to build a pipeline of projects and with Sales and Marketing to build offerings and supporting collateral Work with subject matter experts within customer organisations to understand and translate business processes into technical requirements and design documents Provide guidance and lead on technology roadmaps, principles and standards Demonstrate strong and broad technical leadership to other members of the Sempre consultancy teams Document complex solution architectures from concept through to deployment and customer handover Provide thought leadership on data processes and technologies, showing how these could improve customer solutions and internal processes Capability to lead and manage a team of consultants to create innovative and efficient solutions for our customers whilst upholding our pledge to provide support and development to our people SKILLS AND ABILITIES Essential Experience architecting enterprise data solutions that integrate source systems through a mixture of API, operational data stores and data warehouses Data modelling experience for operational data stores and data warehouses Ability to design architecture and scalable patterns to support batch and real-time solutions using data integration platforms such as Microsoft and Informatica Write clear technical documentation and present to technical team for knowledge handover and onboarding to projects Understanding of complete data analytics process, from source systems to BI and analytics tools BI and data exploration tools experience, such as Cognos and Microsoft Power BI Ability to collaborate with diverse customer and technical delivery teams, communicating technical concepts and design ideas clearly to team members Demonstratable experience of managing and developing teams Worked in a customer facing role Desirable Understanding of Information Security and Data Governance frameworks. Designed and implemented Data Quality, Governance or Master Data Management solutions Worked in house building, construction, insurance, retail or manufacturing sectors Experience with implementing solutions utilising microservices architectures Knowledge of DevOps methodology and the implementation of supporting technologies such as GIT Experience with hybrid-cloud infrastructure architecture including storage, compute, database, and networking Experience using Scrum and following Agile best practices VALUES Sempre Analytics is proud of its culture and continuously strives to improve the working environment and the way people feel about working with us. Our culture is underpinned by four Core Values that drive everything we do: Be Open and Approachable – Your energy introduces you before you even speak Treat colleagues like family, and customer like friends – Happiness is working with great people Bring value, don’t extract it – Always deliver more than expected Take yourself lightly but your work seriously – The most wasted of all days, is the one without laughter We always seek to recruit people who align with these values but recognise that our culture is continuously evolving, and our people are driving that. What will you bring to the future of Sempre? We can’t wait to find out. To apply or for more information contact: careers@sempreanalytics.com Fancy joining us? Be part of something special We’re always on the lookout for talented data scientists, data engineers, and business planning consultants. If you have experience in data or planning systems please do let us know. Talk to us Our values We believe that, who we hire, will either add to our positive vibe, or start to erode it away. Be open and approachable Being approachable means that no question is ever too small, that every opinion matters and that, no matter what’s going on, we’re always open to help others. Treat colleagues like family and customers like friends We play together, not just work together. We support each other through tougher times. We help our clients and colleagues grow to the point where they no longer need us. Bring value, don’t extract it Bringing value means generously sharing our knowledge and time without any expectation of return and without applying pressure to do things our way. Take yourself lightly, but your work seriously We take pride in our work while asking “How can I do this better tomorrow?”. But we can also take feedback, take a joke, laugh at ourselves and find the fun in everything. What’s on your mind?
What this role is, and what else it is called
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