Data Architect

Salary: £68,000 to £70,000 per annum

Location: Based at our office in Harlow, Essex. (2 days office-based, 3 days working from home)

Are you passionate about data management and a keen problem solver? If yes, we would love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the development of an organisation wide data strategy to support delivery of foundations objectives.
• Be the key stakeholder and advisor in all new strategic data initiatives and ensure alignment to the foundation wide data strategy.
• Define and manage a framework of principles to ensure data integrity across the organisation – including but not limited to ERP, CRM, BI, Data warehouse, external interfaces etc.
• Create and maintain appropriate Enterprise Architecture artefacts including Entity Relationship Models, Data dictionary, taxonomy to aid data traceability.
• Provide direction and technical oversight to solution delivery activity to ensure these adhere to the enterprise architecture and data governance standards.
• Champion data security principles and ensure appropriate security practices are embedded in any data strategy.
• Lead delivery against key performance measures for data integration and quality.
• Manage third party data suppliers in developing specifications that are compliant with the Enterprise data architecture.

About you:

Must haves:

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or equivalent.
• Very good working knowledge of SQL scripts and coding.
• A comprehensive understanding of the principles of and best practices behind data engineering, and the supporting technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, Cache and In-memory stores.
• Experience of architecting data solution across hybrid cloud and on-premises data platforms.
• A comprehensive understanding of data warehousing and data transformation (extract, transform and load) processes and the supporting technologies such as Amazon Glue, EMR, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, other analytics products.
• Experience implementing data solutions.
• Excellent problem solving and data modelling skills (logical, physical, sematic and integration models) including normalisation, OLAP / OLTP principles and entity relationship analysis.
• Experience of mapping key Enterprise data entities to business capabilities and applications
• A strong knowledge of horizontal data lineage from source to output.

Nice to haves:

• Computer science degree
• Azure Logic App experience
• Other Data Management tools

Motability Foundation

At Motability Foundation we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Foundation Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year.

We award grants to other charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Benefits

⭐️ WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU ⭐️

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

🌞 Holiday – 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service

❤️ Health and Wellbeing – We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

🏡 Family Friendly – We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

🌈 Diversity and Inclusion – We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

🎉 Celebrating Success – We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

☕️ Our culture – In the Motability office we “dress for our day”, it’s an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

💰 Pension – Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%

How to find out more?

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at: [email protected]

Here at Motability Foundation, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

We are a disability confident employer, so please do make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need throughout both the recruitment process and to work with us.

We are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you have applied please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we will offer you an interview.