Data Architect/Tech Lead
London, England, United Kingdom
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As part of the data practice, we are focused on creating a modern architecture and implementation practice that can deliver data platforms and data projects to our clients. The ideal candidate will have a strong architecture and software engineering background, have led teams of engineers or other architects, be able to perform in a client-facing role to senior stakeholders, and will be to contribute to the 6point6 internal data strategy, thought leadership and sales and marketing efforts.
Role and responsibilities
- Independent manager expected to have a large impact on the success of the organisation and client projects guiding teams to deliver data services, platforms and applications.
- Provide engineering and technical leadership whilst being engaged in hands-on technical deliverables including responsibility for the build of data processing systems.
- Partner closely with the product and delivery lead to manage project scope and ensure technical deliverables are met.
- Participate in business development activities, proposals, bids and pre-sales, promotion and delivery of big data engagements.
- Participate in thought leadership about architecture and big data by creating thought leadership materials as directed.
- Build client relationships and establish credibility by demonstrating knowledge of various aspects of data engineering and data architecture, and identify opportunities.
- Perform engagement management responsibilities, including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review and client management.
- Line manage, mentor, train and develop more junior staff, including graduates.
Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience with programming and software engineering best practice – specifically Java, Scala or Python, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, etc.. Ability to design solutions as well as review code.
- Expert overall knowledge of data technology and trends, especially of AWS data products (Glue, EMR, MSK, Redshift, etc.) and big data technologies (Cassandra, HBase, Kafka).
- Experience working with large datasets at sale
- Experience in design, build and delivery of (at least one):
- data warehouse and analytics platform
- data lake or data acquisition platform
- batch based ETL pipelines and orchestration tooling
- stream based data processing
- event sourced systems
- Good knowledge of both open source and vendor data platforms.
- Good understanding of data architecture, architectural concepts, methodologies and approaches.
- Excellent understanding of data modelling, SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Good data and system analysis skills.
- Good knowledge of search and graph technologies, for example ElasticSearch and Neo4J.
- Experience working with both structured and unstructured data, data contracts and serialisation technologies such as Avro, Protobuf and Parquet.
- Good knowledge of non-functional drivers for design.
- Must be security clearable:
- UK/EU passport or Indefinite Leave to Remain or Right of Abode
- resident in the UK for the last five years
- abroad for no longer than three months
- no criminal record
Why 6point6?
At 6point6, we drive the right change in every organisation through the positive impact of technology. Leading with strategy, architecture, and design, we connect cloud, data, and cyber to engineer and deliver large-scale, complex transformations across public and private sectors. We help organisations realise the value of their business strategy, allowing them to engage in a more meaningful way with their end customers.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, for more details of our benefits package please see - https://6point6.co.uk/careers/
Tags: Avro AWS Big Data Cassandra Data strategy Docker Elasticsearch Engineering ETL Git HBase Kafka Kubernetes Microservices Neo4j NoSQL Open Source Parquet Pipelines Python Redshift Scala Security SQL Unstructured data
Perks/benefits: Competitive pay
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