Data Architect – Data Server Skills Microsoft SQL Server, Azure

SENIOR DATA ARCHITECT – EMEA ROLE – £90,000 – Hemel Hempstead

Purpose statement

To accelerate its digital transformation, my client is looking for an experienced Data Architect to help design and shape its future digital platform strategy. As a Data Architect you will provide technical leadership and determine the logical design and information management strategies necessary to store, move and manage data in a new target state or an alternative version of an existing state. We look for people who are open to new ideas and to challenge conventional paradigms. Our Data Architect will part of fast-moving team who are defining an entirely new digital operating model in what feels like a start-up, therefore they must be outgoing and enthusiastic about new technologies and what they may bring.

Location: (Hemel Hempstead – UK, London; Voisins-le-Bretonneux – Paris; Ratingen – Dusseldorf; Kerkrade; Milan; Madrid)

Key Responsibilities

• Determine integrated modelling standards, guidelines and best practices and approved modelling techniques to ensure the accuracy, validity, and reusability of data
• Supervise the creation and maintenance of all conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Assess existing models to improve performance, reliability and scalability of data models, recommending new technologies, architectures and business workflow improvement
• Supervise the data modelling staff and the data administration team, providing data architecture best practices and guidelines
• Establish metrics for tracking and measuring the value of data architecture initiatives, measuring model reuse, impact on project costs or improved data consistency across diverse initiatives * Ensure the continuity and improve existing reports and communicated with senior managers
• Build the database server solution that will hold the data architecture, in conjunction with IT team to ensure the solutions adapt to the software environment of the company
• Lead the roadmap of software investments that will increase the efficiency of the data architecture, in close collaboration with the Global IT Team

Required Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum 10+ years professional experience in Business and IT, predominantly in Business Analytics
• University Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or an engineering filed with a focus on Data Architecture
• Proven experience in the maintenance and development of data models and data systems with large amount of data.
• Data Server Skills Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, Oracle, Database Shell Script
• Project Management experience
• Other Excel (Visual Basic), Access, SQL, Tableau, Qlik (or similar)
• Good knowledge of Sales Force and Adobe platforms * Good communication and networking skills to interact across matrix organization
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Matlab, R.

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