FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Data Architect to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in either London, Glasgow, Durham or Lytham St Anne's. Our client is seeking a Data Architect to establish data stewardship and governance, support data migration and transformation programmes and bring experiencefrom mature data governance environments to help improve its data maturity. The role requires strong consultative and interpersonal skills to bring stakeholders on board, set data standards for suppliers, and influence partner behavior. The Data Architect will be responsible for enforcing data governance frameworks across both internal teams and outsourced partners. Responsibilities:
1. Contribute to and execute on the IT strategy to ensure the delivery of Business goals
2. Work with EA peers (e.g., Cloud and Security, Business, Application and Infrastructure Architects) to analyse enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as requirements for change across enterprise architecture viewpoints.
3. Assure conformance to key data architectural principles for all data solutions in the business to follow by working with service partners.
4. Ensure that solutions underpin and actively support the delivery of business value from data, and identifying where additional data capture may be required.
5. Ensure data governance is reflected in the software delivery lifecycle.
6. Define appropriate longer-term data storage and management strategies.
7. Define and maintain canonical Conceptual Data Models, high-level Data Flow models and Data Lifecycle models.
8. Define and maintain data glossaries at enterprise level.
9. Define and maintain data sharing principles between platforms to minimise impact of change on connected systems, while ensuring data consistency and reliability are not compromised.
10. Define and maintain enterprise data standards.
11. Contribute to Enterprise Architecture development and implementation.
12. Engage with subject matter experts across the business and service partners to deliver technology solutions and business insight.
13. Collaborate with service partner architects to ensure the most appropriate data solutions are selected
14. Lead process of assessing and implementing data model changes to support effective data insights and enable effective information for key decisions.
15. Ensure the processes and procedures are in place for data platforms to achieve their potential, and monitored regularly to ensure they are fit for purpose.
16. Work with the Security Architect and Risk Management to ensure that data solution design takes account of regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR), and to contribute to definition of risk mitigation plans, where appropriate.
17. Ensure that source systems and data platforms are following the correct architectural principles to support the business, both as-is and for future change, and provide expert guidance where change is required.
18. Create appropriate data governance frameworks, and ensure the appropriate levels of engagement from the service partners.
19. Ensure Privacy by Design so that any data compliance standards are applied consistently and correctly across all data platforms.
20. Support project deliveries in making sure that any changes to data platforms are understood in their entirety, and the changes being implemented follow architectural principles and align with business strategies.
21. Define acceptance criteria for project deliveries to meet, and assess compliance against those criteria for projects seeking approval to proceed.
22. Support Design Change Governance and Assessment of Change Materiality.
23. Identify, define and manage relevant architectural waivers and risks.
24. Contribute to definition of risk mitigation plans, where appropriate.