Contract

Data Solution Architect – SC Cleared

Ref: BBBH68215_1789135364

England

Whitehall Resources currently require an experienced Data Solution to work with a key client.

**Please note this role requires active SC Clearance and Falls INSIDE IR35**

Purpose –
* Designs application products to meet user needs and align with strategy and standards.
* Provides a consistent set of application product architecture views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
* Solution communication champion, making the complex simple to understand.
* Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.

Top 3 responsibilities, as stated by end user:
* Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
* Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high-risk issues, or delivering architecture design.
* Ensure that architecture design artefacts are produced to agreed quality standards and timescales and presented effectively at governance forums.

Broader responsibilities, as stated by consutling:
* To design and represent architecture solutions
o Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of projects / initiatives
o Build relationships and work collaboratively with other Digital professionals
o Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases, to drive decision making on best solution design
o Make technology choice proposals for Products
o Create high-level solution architecture documentation and architecture design artefacts for governance, including all relevant SME input.
* To ensure compliance of design with approved design in the Digital Blueprint
o Ensure technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
o Engage with Domain and Lead Solution Architects and engineers to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs
o Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt
* To maintain Product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint
o Be accountable for product architecture, contribute to product roadmaps, in alignment with engineering
o Identify, capture, iterate and implement architecture patterns
* To contribute to, and build capability in, the Architecture community
o Sharing best practice and reference architectures
o Participate/Support development of the Architecture Community of Practice

Skills –
* Significant Architecture experience
* Government/Public client experience (SC cleared or at least SC eligible)
* Analytics & Reporting: Data warehousing, data lakes, business intelligence (BI) and analytics technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice.
* Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
* Architecture design informed through the use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
* AWS Solution expertise and relevant certification – EMR / Spark (Hadoop) / AWS / Data Modelling-Mapping / GitHub / GitLab

Technologies –
* Azure
* AWS
* Power BI

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.