Do you love data? I mean, really loooove data and the power behind it?

If so, I may have the perfect opportunity for you.

We are working exclusively with one of the UK's Top Data Analytics organisations who provide very cool solutions for leading retail and FMCG businesses including Morrisons, Muller, Coop and EasyJet to name a few.

ROLE: Data Architect

SALARY: Competitive! Plus pension scheme, 25 (plus your birthday off), team building days, flexible and home working environment, free parking and personal development days

LOCATION: Cranfield

The Data Architect will be working on ground-breaking projects as my client change how FMCG companies anticipate the demand of their products. The core of this is creating, developing and curating a huge and diverse data asset that has potential to significantly reduce waste and increase sales.

Responsibilities of the Data Architect:

– Transform logical design papers into physical design proposals
– Set principles of physical design for others and ensure compliance
– Collect data platform requirements and manage the implementation of suitable solutions
– Optimise database design for performance, cost, security and maintainability
– Advise on technology stack improvements
– Analyse improvements to software lifecycle process
– Implement and ensure compliance to software lifecycle process
– Lead a team of database developers in deploying robust database designs
– Design improved data engineering pipelines and demonstrate through proof of concept
– Create a platform for data asset curation (data lineage visibility & data dictionary)

ESSENTIALS: (If you are missing some of the below please do not let this put you off! Let us have an informal chat!)
– Experience working with and analysing diverse datasets
– Demonstrable database & data warehouse design experience
– Good understanding of advantages of different database design patterns (Kimball, 3NF, Star
Schema, Snowflake, Data Vault)
– Able to communicate principles and techniques of data engineering and database object design

DESIRABLES:
– Team leadership
– Software lifecycle management
– Experience working with or implementing robust test regimes
– DBA experience
– Experience of Grocery supply chain advantageous, but demonstration of abstracting specific
business logic to generalised concepts is equally important

Covid has not impacted them at all, phew! In fact, their business has grown and we've made multiple hires for them since the pandemic. So, if this sounds like a company you want to join please do apply