Description:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Data Architect to join Aviva Ireland's architecture team! The successful candidate will act as an advocate for data, evangelising its possibilities to senior business and IT stakeholders, and formulating a strategy that unlocks its potential as a valuable enterprise asset.
- The Data Architect will share that strategy, along with roadmaps, standards and principles, during collaborations with Software Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, MI specialists and other colleagues & peers for whom data is crucial
- The Data Architect will help business and IT stakeholders build pragmatic cases for making optimal use of data, within the constraints of specific deliverables and objectives
- The Data Architect will generate awareness of, and support for, exploring innovative data-driven possibilities of 'Fintech' e.g., Machine Learning
- Experience of working in a relevant data discipline
- Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to influence peers & stakeholders
- Deep expertise in designing data solutions, inclusive of data modelling and ETL patterns
- Deep expertise in warehousing, ODS and data mart patterns
- Some experience with, or at least a deep understanding of, the data lake paradigm
- Experience in marshalling data governance principles and policies
- Hands-on expertise with a variety of storage technologies (ideally SQL and NoSQL)
- An ability to think strategically or tactically, depending on the constraints