Contract/Permanent Opportunity

Azure Cloud Data Architect

Hybrid (London 2x per Week)

Must have Active Security Clearance

Job responsibilities

Architecture of solutions

• Architecting Enterprise Data Platform on Cloud particularly on Azure to support regulatory financial institution
• Designing Functional Architectures for Service Quality
• Designing and maintaining Non-Functional Requirements, e.g., Capacity planning, availability, performance, housekeeping, monitoring and foundational capabilities of the Enterprise Data Platform

Designing the application solution delivery and good understanding of Cloud Infrastructure solutions

• Leading technical teams as appropriate in data and analytics delivery implementation and support
• Performing technical assessment and evaluation of Cloud Services and other Cloud SaaS/IaaS/PaaS solutions

Documenting solution architecture

• Cloud Data Platform capabilities, Use Cases, Applications, including integrations
• Collaborate with Cloud Security and Cloud Infrastructure offices
• Maintaining documentation

Other Azure Cloud data Architect activities

• Assist in deploying data solutions and applications.
• Assist in second line support problem determination and resolution of solution issues
• Assist in designing, developing and implementing Enterprise Data Platform enhancements to agreed standards utilising standard processes and procedures.
• Assist in supporting Data Analytics development and production teams
• Assist in supporting the Data and Analytics team to resolve incidents
• Provide architectural oversight and support for the data solution and infrastructure environment

Required knowledge and experience

• 10-15 years of experience in Cloud Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Hyperscalers specially Microsoft Azure technologies across the Data Lifecycle.
• Have experience in architecting and solutioning Azure based projects.
• Hands on knowledge in ADF, Databricks, PowerBI
• Experience in various Azure services across Data Ingestion, Data Modelling, Data Governance, Data Quality, Reporting and Visualization and Analytics capabilities.
• Experience in setting up Foundational and Advanced Capabilities of Azure Cloud Data Platform
• Relevant technical experience managing, developing and upgrading applications, within application/solution design
• Strong understanding of data modeling techniques in Relational, Document, Graph, and BigData platforms servicing OLTP, OLAP and mixed model architectures
• Excellent documentation skills and ability to complete high quality architecture artefacts in a timely fashion to meet project timelines for governance gates.
• Experience of end-to-end data solution architecture/design methods and patterns for example design in areas such as data sourcing, data warehousing, data lakes, ELT/ELT, streaming, data delivery, data visualization
• Experience in application integration using services-oriented and/or middleware approaches
• Have experience in leading projects relating to system integration, data migration, data warehousing experience with cloud-based data platforms; experience driving technical workshops with technical and business clients to derive value added services and implementations