Data Architect

Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation.  We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.   

Data Engineering supports stakeholders within various projects across various industries. The team analyses Stakeholder use cases, defines data processes, carries out the design and development of data engineering software products & facilitates the data processes on multiple projects.  

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a data architect / software engineer who has experience within software engineering projects with some software coding skills to:
  • Work with stakeholders on data management solutions and use case definition
  • Work on our customers standard data management system, a system database ensuring data continuity between the different engineering professions and beyond
  • Manage or support the data management process for projects, to include Microsoft Cloud infrastructure, including development & validation of scripts and utilising the Microsoft Azure toolset.  In the context of supporting use case definition the candidate will work with stakeholders to assess needs and in the context of system development the candidate will be supporting the engineering and architecture of developments, whether they are new features or bug fixes.
• The successful candidate will be report to the Data Lead, and working within a team of data architects and software engineers to support data engineering activities across projects;
  • Analysing & collating use cases
  • Designing and Producing data & tool development plans
  • Interface documents
  • Conventions and liaising with tool developers, also able to support software development and the data population, administration, verification & validation throughout the project phases
• We work witin a Scrum framework.  A typical list of tasks for a Data Architect / software engineer within the team:
  • To collate stakeholders 'use cases' and produce the database SRDB user requirements documentation
  • To develop and document the database tool and content development, verification & validation plan
  • To develop and formalise database ICDs
  • To develop and formalise the database naming convention & population rules
  • To support the development of the database tool and any updates, either liaising with development team or supporting solutions
  • To validate data management tool software solutions
  • To develop and formalise the database change process
  • To administrate and manage the database population, maintenance and delivery to the database stakeholders as required
  • To develop and formalise the database tool & content validation plan
  • To perform database tool validation
  • To track database content validation status and provide a validation status report as required
  • To provide database documentation for the Project Reviews

Essential skills

• Intermediate level Database Management System development and administration experience, including SQL, EMF Query2 or other Query language
• Working within an engineering context 
• Intermediate level Good knowledge of object oriented programming
• Good skills covering reporting platforms including PowerBI or Tableaux

Experience

• Experience in a data team.
• Experience of working in Scrum development methodology
• Experience of working in Agile Working with JIRA Advanced level. Has significant professional working experience 
• Can lead small teams ensuring high quality delivery where applicable.
• Intermediate level Preferred.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

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