Lead Technical Architect

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 in Cardiff.

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 it’s 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

• Master’s 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.