Data Architect

We have an opportunity for an experienced Data Architect to join our Cloud Data Engineering Architecture team within a prestigious FTSE 100 financial organisation.

As a capable and experienced Data Architect, you will have a detailed understanding of Cloud hosted databases, Data Warehouses, and Data Science Machine Learning and AI Data Hubs; you will be responsible for designing and implementing data architectures, data integrations, data models and data engineering standards.

• Defining and maintaining data architecture standards and principles, including modelling metadata, data security, and reference data
• Transforming business requirements into designs for data integration, data streaming & transformation, data models for databases, data lakehouses, data warehouses, data lakes
• Clearly communicating and collaborating on data architecture designs with colleagues and stakeholders
• Defining a reference data architecture, with best practice patterns for data engineers to follow to build and improve data systems
• Undertaking analysis of data architecture and software alternatives, documenting associated benefits, costs, and risks
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement in the strategic application of data architectures

• Demonstrable software engineering skills in designing data models using formal techniques
• You are confident defining data standards across subject areas, acting as the escalation point for breaches of data standards and making recommendations for resolving standards violations
• Exposure to modern cloud database systems such as Snowflake
• Experience of building ELT/ETL or data pipelines, following Data Vault 2.0 or equivalent methodology, for Business Intelligence or Data Science systems
• Excellent communication skills with a meticulous attention to detail. You are able to understand abstract concepts, and apply mathematical and statistical methods to data in order present findings to management and stakeholders in an easy-to-understand way

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

We are proud supporters of Women in Data®.  Connect, engage and belong to the largest free female data community in the UK – visit: www.womenindata.co.uk to join our community.