Vodafone
Senior Data Architect
Job Description
Role Purpose:
The Senior Data architect is a core member of the agile team implementing BI & ML solutions. The data architect designs and builds data models for such BI & ML solutions in order to fulfil the strategic data needs of the business
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
• Responsible for creating the structure and flow of data within the solution
• Develops data standards for a specific component while analysing where data standards have been applied or breached and undertakes an impact analysis of that breach and Generates a Common Information Model & Maps systems and interfaces used to manage data
• Investigates different data sources on the possible transport technologies (stream/batch, schedules/freshness)
• Collects, collates, cleanses, synthesises and interprets data to derive meaningful and actionable insights
• Sets standards for data management & discovers all relevant data sets from all stakeholders
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
• Real hands-on designing, maintaining and building conceptual, logical and physical database models
• Capable of taking responsibility for the assurance of data solutions and making recommendations to ensure compliance
• Understands data governance and how it works in relation to other organisational governance structures
• Understands the concepts and principles of data modelling and is able to produce, maintain and update relevant data models for specific business needs.
• Undertakes data profiling, source system analysis, and can present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data.
• Awareness of ethical aspects of data
• Strong experience in Business Process Modelling (BPM) & different ETL tools
• Breadth of knowledge not only in established data management and reporting technologies, but also emerging data technologies: (classic RDBM, columnar and NoSQL databases, Big Data Solutions, Data science, predictive analytics, data visualization,
unstructured data streaming technologies)
• Makes complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences
• Uses the most appropriate medium to visualise/present data to tell compelling and actionable stories relevant for business goals
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
• 6+ Overall years of experience.
• 3+ Years’ experience in a similar role working with large-scale platforms.
• 4+ Years experience with an object-oriented programming language; preferably Python.
• Hands on experience designing and implementing production grade data pipelines.
• Hands on experience with any IaC tool, preferably Terraform.
• Working in international, distributed teams
• Experience of working on projects that span multi-disciplinary areas of differing size and complexity to meet business expectations and deliver results
• Confident and able to liaise and influence at all levels within Vodafone and/or relevant customer organizations
• Able to communicate effectively across organisational, technical, and political boundaries, understanding the context
• Google Certified Professional Cloud Architects are preferred.
