Data Architect - new job in London, UK

Lorien's Leading Banking client are looking for 2 permanent Data Architects, open to UK wide.

Join us as a Solution Architect

• This is an exciting opportunity to use your technical expertise to collaborate with colleagues and build effortless, digital first customer experiences
• You'll be simplifying the bank through developing innovative data driven solutions, inspiring to be commercially successful through insight, and keeping our customers' and the bank's data safe and secure
• Participating actively in the data engineering community, you'll deliver opportunities to support our strategic direction while building your network across the bank

What you'll do

We'll look to you to lead and inspire a team of data engineers to drive value from data for the customer. You'll be working closely with core technology and architecture teams to deliver strategic data solutions, while driving data engineering strategies to build a scalable data architecture and customer feature rich dataset.

We'll also expect you to be:

• Driving the automation of data engineering pipelines through the removal of manual stages
• Developing and sharing your knowledge of the bank's data structures and metrics, advocating change where needed for product development
• Developing a strategy for streaming data ingestion and transformations
• Educating and embedding new data techniques into the business through role modelling, training and experiment design oversight
• Driving Agile and DevOps adoption in the delivery of data engineering

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this senior role, you'll need to be an expert level programmer and Data Engineer with a qualification in Computer Science or Software Engineering. You'll also need a strong understanding of data usage and dependencies with wider teams and the end customer, as well as extensive experience in extracting value and features from large scale data.

Along with knowledge of architecting and delivering to big data production and machine learning platforms, you'll have an understanding of data platforms built on AWS using Lake Formation, EMR, Glue and SageMaker.

You'll have experience of MLOps and the machine learning lifecycle, and ideally a certification on AWS Solution Arch and ML Speciality. Knowledge of other data platforms on Clouder, Snowflake and Terradata would be beneficial, as would knowledge of infrastructure and security design for a data project.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Experience of ETL technical design, automated data quality testing, QA and documentation, data warehousing, data modelling and data wrangling
• Extensive experience using RDMS, ETL pipelines, Python, Hadoop and SQL
• A good understanding of modern code development practices
• Good critical thinking and proven problem solving abilities

It would be ideal if you have experience of using Oracle, Unix scripting, Java, cloud, API, NoSQL and Kafka.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age