Location: Birmingham Hybrid: Yes Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £62,986 to £71,105 Your New Employer Do you thrive on creating robust data strategies and architectures that enable business success? This is an exciting opportunity to join an inclusive workplace that values curiosity, autonomy, and working in the open. Hays Technology are working in partnership with Birmingham City Council to recruit a Data Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping their data landscape. You will be at the forefront of leveraging data lakes, data mastery, and data modelling to enable Birmingham City Council to build a culture where data-driven decision-making is at the heart of everything they do. This is a really exciting time to be joining the Digital and Technology Services team of Birmingham City Council, Europe’s largest local authority. With unprecedented investment in people and digital, a solid strategy, empowering leadership and a newly redesigned service to get behind, they are building digital services centred on the needs of our citizens, business and communities that will deliver on Birmingham’s bold ambitions for the city of today and tomorrow. They are a multidisciplinary team at the heart of transforming public services for the UK’s second-largest city. They create, develop, deliver and operate an exceptionally diverse range of services that have a direct impact on improving the lives of 1.2m residents every day. They are embracing and promoting a truly digital, human-centred approach for the whole organisation, underpinned by collaboration, openness and innovation. The council takes advantage of unparalleled access to data, doing things at scale and new ways of using technology as an enabler to re-imagine the way services are delivered and build the digital council of the future. Responsibilities You will play a crucial role in shaping and transforming their data landscape. Your expertise and strategic mindset will be instrumental in driving our data initiatives forward. With a focus on data modelling, data mastery, the utilisation of data lakes, and the Microsoft toolset, you will be responsible for designing and implementing robust data architectures that enable data-driven decisions. Design and implement data architectures: Create and implement scalable and efficient data architectures using the Microsoft toolset, ensuring seamless integration and data flow across systems and applications. Conduct data modelling: Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models that accurately represent complex data structures and support data-driven decision-making processes. Foster data mastery: Define and implement data governance frameworks, standards, and best practices, ensuring data quality, integrity, and compliance across the organisation. Utilise data lakes: Leverage data lakes as a central repository for storing and processing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, enabling advanced analytics, data exploration, and machine learning initiatives. Implement Microsoft toolset: Utilise the Microsoft toolset, including Azure Data Services, Power BI, SQL Server, and other relevant technologies, to build data solutions that support data ingestion, storage, processing, analysis, and visualisation. Collaborate with stakeholders: Work closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, and data professionals to understand their requirements, gather insights, and translate them into practical and scalable data solutions. Drive data strategy: Contribute to the development and implementation of a comprehensive data strategy that aligns with business objectives, fosters a data-driven culture, and supports organisational growth and innovation. Stay updated with industry trends: Continuously monitor emerging trends, best practices, and technological advancements in the field of data architecture and apply them to enhance our data management capabilities. What You Need To Do Now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. 4599383 - Dale Larkin
