Job Description
At WHSmith our people are at the heart of everything we do. They are the ones that go the extra mile for our customers, the ones that enable our growth. As Data Architect here, you’ll play a pivotal part in driving data integrity, governance and reuse in a relevant security context.
You will be responsible for designing and overseeing robust, scalable, and timely data constructs that inform WHS's operational, business intelligence, reporting, analytics and artificial intelligence systems in addition to customer channels.
What you will be doing:
1. Developing and maintaining the Enterprise Data Architecture and blueprints aligned to business goals and operational needs.
2. Using Retail Industry Data Models, define relevant standards for data designs, models, metadata, contracts and data quality.
3. Designing conceptual and logical data models to support business applications, repositories and data movement.
4. Leading the design and overseeing the implementation of our strategic data platforms (e.g. data repositories, lakes and warehouses).
5. Collaborating with our service teams to ensure timely movement, optimal performance, scalability and reliability from both strategic and legacy data systems.
6. Defining and overseeing the processes for data extraction, ingestion, translation and transformation with internal and ex...