Job Title: Data Solution Architect

Job Description

This role focuses on designing end-to-end data solutions that align with the organisations technology strategy and roadmap. You will translate business requirements into robust, secure and cost-effective architectures, ensuring that products and features deliver the desired business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define detailed end-to-end solution designs for data products and features that support the overall technology strategy and roadmap.
• Translate requirements produced by business analysts into clear, implementable solution architectures that meet customer needs and expected business outcomes.
• Engage proactively with stakeholders, platform architects and enterprise architects to inform and validate solution designs.
• Ensure solution designs remain cost-effective and aligned to strategic objectives throughout the agile development lifecycle.
• Manage and prioritise the backlog of design activities, ensuring a smooth flow of work into agile delivery teams and individual PODs.
• Ensure non-functional requirements are consistently defined, articulated and embedded into infrastructure, security and application designs.
• Identify, manage and escalate architectural risks and issues in a timely manner so that project managers and stakeholders are not surprised by emerging concerns.
• Apply and adhere to established governance processes, ensuring architectures undergo the appropriate level of assessment at the right stages in the agile process.

Essential Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex requirements and design appropriate solutions.
• Proven capability to influence and champion new ideas and technical directions within an organisation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders and engineers to ensure solutions adhere to agreed principles and architectural direction.
• Ability to decompose non-functional requirements into detailed infrastructure and security designs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt style and level of detail to suit different audiences.
• Experience taking responsibility for significant architectural decisions and providing clear justification for those decisions.
• Strong technical and business stakeholder management skills, engaging confidently from developer level to executive management.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Approachable and supportive team member with a collaborative attitude in a demanding, fun, fast-paced agile environment.
• Proactive mindset with strong drive, motivation, determination, dedication, resilience, honesty and enthusiasm.
• Personal maturity and confidence to listen, reflect and adapt based on feedback from others.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, building trust and strong working relationships across functions and levels.
• Keen learner who demonstrates continuous improvement and actively develops technical and architectural skills.
• Technology-savvy and comfortable working with evolving tools, platforms and architectural patterns.
• Pragmatic approach, balancing ideal architectural patterns with real-world delivery constraints

Location

Manchester, UK

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