Lead Technical Architect

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10 months ago
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Lead Technical Architect

£202.57 PAYE - £261.56 UMBRELLA per day

Full Time

3 month contract

Cardiff - Predominantly Remote

Our Client is looking to recruit multiple Lead Technical Architect on initial 3 month contracts who are based inCardiff.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead the definition of technical strategies, visions and designs across teams based on Google Cloud Platform best practice to achieve organisational objectives.
  • Direct the delivery of technical strategies, visions and designs across teams.
  • Drive best practices in cloud-based data engineering, automation, and DevOps for data solutions.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other engineering teams to define architecture principles and patterns.
  • Lead and guide the team, contributing to team skill growth and knowledge sharing.
  • Design and implement scalable, reliable data models in the Google Cloud Platform.
  • Ensure the security, compliance, and performance of Google Cloud Platform data solutions.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Significant experience with Google Cloud Platform for data and analytics.
  • Ability to define strategies and visions across teams based on best practice, which align with organisational objectives.
  • Ability to direct the implementation of strategies and visions for example by creating and implementing roadmaps or plans.
  • Ability to make and guide architectural decisions, identify and address associated risks, and use governance and assurance to make design decisions.
  • Can define architectural principles and patterns using best practice.
  • Ability to produce relevant data models, explaining which models to use for which purpose and advising on industry best practice.
  • Can develop and maintain strategies in response to feedback and findings.
  • Ability to create technical designs characterised by high risk, impact and complexity.
  • Can lead and guide others in creating technical designs to achieve organisational objectives.
  • Can understand the impact on the organisation of emerging trends in data tools, analysis techniques and data usage.
  • Ability to communicate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, mediate in difficult architectural discussion and gain support from stakeholders for architectural initiatives.
  • Can work collaboratively in a group and adapt feedback to ensure its effective.
  • Can use feedback to optimise and refine standards for technical designs throughout the lifecycle.
  • Ability to track emerging internal and external issues, solve problems with the most appropriate actions influencing colleagues across the organisation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
  • Cloud Platform Certification (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
  • AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
  • Google Professional Architect
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer

Desirable

  • Google Professional Data Engineer
  • Data Engineering Certifications (e.g., Cloudera, Databricks)
  • Data-related Certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Data Scientist Associate, Databricks Certified Data Engineer)

If this role is of particular interest and matches up well with your skills/experience then please do apply immediately.

If this role is of interest and you meet the above criteria, then please apply immediately


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