Data Architect

ENDAVA AT A GLANCE  Endava is a global public technology company with over 22 years of experience working with some of the biggest global names in payments, banking, financial services, insurance, media, technology, and more. Through Digital Evolution, Agile Transformation, and Automation solutions, Endava helps its clients be more engaging, responsive, and efficient by supporting them from ideation to production.   Endava has over 10,000 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centers in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Colombia. Along with investing in long-term customer relationships, Endava recognized the importance of providing rewarding and challenging careers for people and, by doing so, has established itself as the employer of choice in certain regions.   At Endava we value career growth and expansion. You will have various opportunities to grow into the career you desire. We offer mentorship programs and multiple career tracks to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. 

We are looking for a Data Architect to join our Data Discipline full time. As a Data Architect you must be flexible and willing to work worth challenging, complex problems in order to generate strong solutions. Excellent communication skills are key, and you must be able to ask penetrating questions to uncover the root causes of challenges being presented. Our data architects are strong consultants, who are just as comfortable talking through solutions with clients as they are at coding. As a Data Architect you must value collaboration and working cross functionally to make the greatest impact for our clients and fellow team members.    In this role, you will work closely with technical leads, fellow developers, our client solutions team, and client stakeholders. You will be part of agile/scrum ceremonies and will work as a contributor within these ceremonies.    Within three months, you will have ingrained yourself with your project and its goals, while developing strong relationships within and outside of your team.   Within one year, you will have worked across various client and internal teams to build solutions, whether those be for clients or for internal initiatives. You will have engaged internally to foster and develop your skill sets and invested time in honing new ones. Being a part of the Data capability means continuing to help us live our core values and culture, as well as drive growth through quality and consistent work and interactions. 

Responsibilities

• Meet and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to establish project scope, system goals, and requirements
• Help translate business requirements into technical specifications for data consumption and use
• Provide guidance on appropriate data platform(s) (repository, database, etc.) to meet requirements   
• Accurately map data attributes between different domain models
• Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, data models and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow
• Help deploy and troubleshoot application data pipelines across various architectural environments that will vary by client from legacy to modern including application servers, queues, API gateways, databases, etc. or cloud-based equivalents

Required Qualifications

• Typically has 5+ years of experience with varied technical experience in designing/developing data pipelines and data stores
• Demonstrated experience designing data architecture(s) for Business Intelligence/Analytical usage  
• Understanding of data modeling and data mapping
• Experience with Data Warehouse and Data Mart
• Experience with TFS, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SSIS, Power BI
• Extensive experience with SQL
• Extensive experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (Oracle, MS SQL Server, GraphQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgresSQL, Redis, ElastiCache, etc).
• Experience in ETL (AWS Glue, Azure DataFactory, Apache NiFi, etc)
• Experience with a variety of data systems and performance tuning approaches
• Knowledge of a variety of architectural principles like hub and spoke, bus, event driven software architectures, etc.
• Working knowledge of Data Science technology stacks
• Working knowledge of BI data analytical products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills  
• Ability to present technical solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong ability to review existing code bases/processes and refactor for improvement vs starting over
• Strong problem solver  
• Professional presence
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Desired Qualifications

• Consulting experience
• Working knowledge of Big data on cloud platforms (Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, AWS, RDS Oracle, or RedShift)
• Python or Powershell scripting experience
• Industry experience in retail/commercial banking or wealth investment / capital markets

Endava Benefits:  We have a great Benefits Package! -Opportunity to work in an exciting and growing high-tech Global Organization -Career Development opportunities -Work/Life balance is the heart of culture  -Like to Travel? Great! We have over 51 offices in 49 cities, within 24 different countries  -Endava provides competitive full salary packages -Personal and Professional growth with continued training opportunities -Robust healthcare and benefits including Medical, Dental, vision, Disability coverage, and various other benefit options -Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical, Transit, and Dependent Care) -Employer Paid Life Insurance and AD&D Coverages -Health Savings account paired with our low-cost High Deductible Medical Plan -401(k) Retirement plan with employer match and no vesting schedule  -Need incentives to stay healthy? We offer Wellness Benefits & Gym reimbursements -Employee Assistance Programs -Wellness Benefit 
Pay Transparency: -Pay ranges are available upon request
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to a diverse workforce. We are committed to a policy of equal employment and will not discriminate against an applicant based on their age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, people with physical or mental disabilities, pregnancy or any other category protected under the laws we operate under.