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Location: Westminster, London

About The Job

Job summary: The Data Architect is a key member of the EA Team and is responsible for setting the vision for the UKEF’s use of data, through data design, to ensure that data is managed properly and meets the organisation’s needs.

It is essential that you are positive, proactive and collaborative with a commitment to providing excellent customer service.

Job Description

The key responsibilities and deliverables for this post are working with your UKEF colleagues and customers to ensure that UKEF is able to meet evolving customer demand using a secure, scalable and robust enterprise architecture blueprint.

You will design and build data models to fulfil the strategic data needs of the organisation, as defined by the Enterprise Architect. You will design, support and provide guidance for the upgrade, management, decommission and archive of data in compliance with UKEF’s data policy. You will provide expert advice on data including the definition and maintenance of our data technology architecture, including metadata, integration, data dictionaries, business intelligence and our data reporting capability.

The Main Activities Of Your Role Will Be

• Communicating between the technical and non-technical: You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
• Communicating data: You can use the most appropriate medium and tooling to visualise data, to tell compelling stories that are relevant to business goals and can be acted upon.
• Data analysis and synthesis: You can translate data into valuable insights that inform decisions. You can effectively involve teams in analytics and synthesis to increase consensus and challenge assumptions.
• Data governance: You can understand data governance, how this applies to data architecture and how it works in relation to other organisational governance structures.
• Data innovation: You can explore new, more efficient and effective ways of deriving value from data. You can optimise and design data to support business opportunities.
• Data modelling: You can produce data models and understand where to use different types.
• Data standards (data architect): You can identify and establish data standards for an organisation.
• Metadata management: You can understand metadata management and the tool options to support its delivery.
• Problem management (data architect): You can identify where data resolutions can contribute to resolving an organisation’s problems.
• Strategic thinking: You can take an overall perspective on business issues, events and activities, and discuss their wider implications and long-term impact.
• Turning business problems into data design: You can work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into data designs.

Person specification

Essential

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience.
• Recognised architectural qualification e.g. TOGAF, BCS

Knowledge

• Working knowledge, with the ability to demonstrate extensive experience in the field of data architecture.
• Knowledge of the creation of and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models.

Skills/Ability

• Creating and delivering data architectures.
• High level stakeholder relationship management.

Experience

• Leadership and management in a data architecture function.
• Experience of working across the business to ensure strategic needs are captured within the vision and roadmaps of the data and enterprise architectures.
• Experience of advising and developing the future state architecture of an organisation to meet strategic needs.
• Experience of applying best practice Data Management methods.
• Experience of applying best in practice architectural concepts and processes.

Behaviours

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

• Technical Questions
• Presentation - the topic will be agreed by UKEF and shared with the relevant candidates ahead of the interview