Jisc is looking for a Data Architect to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis. This role is Hybrid with a blend of working from home and your nominated hub office, we have hubs in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford. In return, you will receive a competitive salary from £55,500 per annum negotiable depending on experience.
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions. Our talented people bring their own unique skills and experience to empower our members and customers with the technology they need to succeed. Take your next career step with us and you can make a real difference to the education and research sector.
About the Data Architect role:
As a Data Architect, you will be part of the Enterprise Architecture team within the Group CTO directorate. The Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for developing and maintaining a target architecture and associated roadmaps, design patterns, standards, and models to support and govern change delivery across Group CTO's Transformation Programme and the wider enterprise.
Responsibilities will include:
- Define and maintain an architectural working practice within the newly-formed Enterprise Architecture Design Authority (EADA), leading the data architecture component.
- Define and develop architectural artefacts including target architectures, design patterns, principles, standards, models, guidelines, and roadmaps, while leading the data architecture components of each.
- Lead the definition of our Architectural Data Strategy, defining how our data design and data technology platforms will develop toward a target architecture that will enable us to realise our organisational strategic goals and outcomes.
- Provide architectural expertise to Jisc's data communities, including CoPs and data governance structures, across the organisation championing data design maturation and ensuring aligned decision making and data practice.
- Work with solution and enterprise architects to lead the data design for solutions across a diverse and complex technology estate to meet project and business needs while implementing our target data architecture.
- Liaise with programme stakeholders to understand business needs and individual programme requirements and provide decision support across the transformation programme delivery workstreams as a trusted advisor.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Substantial experience working as part of an architectural or equivalent design team.
- Experience working with Salesforce, MuleSoft, AWS, Redshift, Cassandra, postgresql, and Dynamics 365.
- Experience designing solutions across all three major cloud providers.
- The ability to design data solutions across multiple business and technology domains with confidence.
- Understand modern data design patterns and technology components used to build solutions.
- Firm understanding of architectural practice and ways of working to support technical change delivery.
- Familiar with modern architectural tooling, including modelling software and UML.
Our benefits:
- Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
- 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas plus the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days
- Generous flexible pension schemes
- Protection benefit – life cover
- Annual Jisc performance award
- A range of wellbeing lifestyle benefits including company paid health care cash plan, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders and support
- A generous budget to support you with external learning and Continuous professional development
- Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
- Financial well-being support including access to preferential loan and savings plans, mortgage advice, will writing tools and support and resources to help you make the most of your money
- The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
- Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech – spreading the cost of your everyday white goods and technology
If you have the skills and experience, we require for this role and are looking for a new challenge then please click ‘apply' today to be forwarded to our online recruitment portal and become our new Data Architect.