Data Architecture Consultant - London

In this role you will:

• Understand client requirements and defining them as architectural models 
• Support end-to-end design of data and data platform architectures, using architecture blueprints 
• Support the development and delivery into production of data architecture, coaching delivery teams during delivery using a variety of methodologies 
• Analyse and resolve architectural problems, working closely with engineering, data science and operations teams 
• Provide technical architecture assessments 
• Provide best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns for use across data engineering and architecture communities 
• Communicate and provide guidance to senior client leadership and teams 
• Contribute data and platform architecture expertise to new sales activities

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Solid understanding of key architecture concerns such as availability, scalability, operability and maintainability 
• Knowledge of and experience of the application of modern architecture principles and patterns 
• Hands-on experience in development, deployment and operation of data technologies and platforms such as:
  • Integration – APIs, micro-services and ETL patterns 
  • Execution Paradigm – low latency/Streaming, batch and micro batch processing 
  • Data platforms – Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka etc.) and Data Warehouse (Teradata, Redshift, BigQuery etc.) 
  • Languages and scripting: Python, Java etc
  • Cloud Services - AWS, GCP, Azure and Cloud Native
  • Analytics and ML tooling – Sagemaker, ML Studio
  • Visualisation Tools - PowerBI, Tableau
  • DevOps – Ansible, Jenkins, ELK 
  • Containerisation – Docker, Kubernetes etc 
  • Orchestration – Airflow, Step Functions, Ctrl M etc.

• Knowledge of foundation infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, Security and Compute Optimization
• Knowledge of Data Migration techniques and processes is desirable