Data Architect

Company Description

• 6th Best Large Workplace in the UK
• 1st Best place to work in Ireland #GPTW2023
• UK & Ireland’s premier Oracle partner
• Market leader in Oracle ERP and HCM Applications
• Consulting, implementation and support services
• 3000 strong,€255m/ £220m revenue business
• ERP Partner of the Year
• Won 7 Gold awards out of 7 nominations at this last year's virtually held OUG Partner awards.

We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver.

Job Description

We are seeing unprecedented growth across several of our key practice areas. We are looking for talented individuals, who want a challenging, dynamic work environment with honesty & integrity, excellence, and drive amongst our core values as well as a strong emphasis on our people and a work-life balance.

If you are interested in playing a key role in growing the Ireland Data Analytics practice, designing Data solutions for our customers, and building the Data team within Version 1 read on.

Responsibilities:

• To provide technical and design leadership to a highly skilled and motivated expert technical team.
• To design solutions that make use of the newest technologies and industry best practices.
• Working alongside other teams to keep Data Architecture Models up to date.
• Work with data analysts, engineers, and visualisation consultants to realise your designs
• Working closely with the Sales/Commercial team to support them with new Data customer opportunities.
• Technical ownership for a Data project, covering technology road-map alignment, estimation, project planning, user story/requirement creation and full development lifecycle.
• Maintain and optimize the Data Warehouse and Data Lake / Data Brick solutions to maximize performance
• Marshall teams to ensure excellent quality and consistency.
• Pull together estimates from teams for future work.
• Driving and implementing non-functional requirements for customers
• Communicate technical designs in conversation, documentation, and presentations to stakeholders of various technical abilities.
• Make effective decisions within fast-moving delivery.
• Mentoring, coaching, and developing members of your team and the wider community.
• Identify opportunities to add value to the customer in the management and delivery of its Data landscape.
• Working with business analysts and end-users to elicit requirements & assist in developing design specifications for short-, medium- and long-term future state architectures.
• Identifying technology trends and deriving relevant IT proposals, including migration strategies.
• Engaging with the software development lifecycle, providing design and technical coaching to project business analysts, solutions architects, development teams, test management, and project managers.

Qualifications

Essential criteria:

• Strong background in Data Engineering, Architecture, Solution Design, and documentation
• Strong understanding of Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, PowerApps and Power BI
• Strong familiarity of the Azure DevOps toolset & Microsoft Azure related Certifications
• Proven track record of implementing end-to-end data solutions and ELT/ETL pipeline development skills
• Experience working with solutions in the Cloud specifically Microsoft's Azure platform
• Strong SQL experience both within the SQL Azure space and on prem
• Ability to communicate well with key stakeholders and non-technical audiences
• Experience in leading data engineering projects
• Experience working with large-scale data environments in a data engineering role
• A demonstrable track record in a similar role is a necessity for this role.

Additional Information

Before you apply, here are some of the benefits we offer:

• Quarterly Profit Share
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible working policy & Remote Working 
• Incentives for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.
• Employee recognition in the form of Excellence Awards and CallOut which your peers award.
• Pathways Career Development Quarterly
• Engagement is incredibly important! Our local teams drive our engagement events!
• and much more...