Data Architect

As a Data Solution Architect (Manager) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for a multi- skilled agile teams to design and deliver contemporary data solutions. You will be a quality orientated pragmatist, where you balance trade-offs to successfully deliver complex solutions. You will be viewed as an authority figure for data technology solutions, providing strong technical and thought leadership.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Successfully implementing functional and non-functional designs
• Working closely with Ops and Infrastructure architects to productionise robust, resilient, and maintainable data solutions
• Working closely with customer architects to agree functional and non-functional designs. Advising, questioning, informing, and helping the customer in making sound solution design outcomes.
• Working with your peers to develop policy and standards, share knowledge and mentor those around you
• Managing and estimating timelines underpinning solution delivery
• Owning technical solution design as part of a pre-sales process
• Making a significant contribution to the data community and wider data capability
• Managing, coaching and developing a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development. You’ll also provide direction for your team as you solve problems together

Minimum (essential) requirements:

• Experience of leading multiple teams as the data solution architect, with ownership of a system of systems
• Experience in designing, building and productionising modern data-intensive applications including orchestration and operation
• Broad knowledge of the full spectrum of data technologies (data ingestion, transformation, storage, presentation, consumption) being able to integrate these into successful solutions
• Strategic design thinking experience, including problem conceptualisation, approach and roadmap definition, architecture realisation and risk management
• Comfortable with traditional and contemporary data warehousing concepts
• Experience of deploying data-processing platforms from vendors such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks.
• Comfortable in one or more of Java, Scala, or Python with the ability to be ‘hands on’ when required
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing members of your team and wider community.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of wider Data Architecture concepts, for example Master Data Management, Masking, Data Governance, Provenance and Lineage  
• Experience of Technical Evaluation and product selection
• Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, change data capture or data virtualisation