Senior Data Architect - Ireland

We are currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Architect to join our team. As a Senior Data Architect, you will play a critical role in establishing data governance frameworks, managing event-driven and self-service data architecture, and ensuring data quality and improvement. If you are a data enthusiast with expertise in data warehouse, governance, and emerging technologies, including data streaming, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

What you will do: 

• Improving data quality and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. 

• Managing event-driven and self-service data architecture. 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Ensuring data-related projects align with data architecture and business objectives, adhering to standards and policies. 

• Setting principles for naming, governing, managing, modelling, transforming, storing, searching, and delivering data. 

• Establishing end-to-end data architectural accountability and refining enterprise architecture for the data governance framework. 

• Proposing and governing proof of concepts for modern technologies to enhance data architecture capabilities. 

• Collaborating with business units to establish and validate data design requirements. 

• Defining and validating performance and scalability objectives through testing. 

• Consulting on data architecture matters to ensure accurate and secure data usage, suggesting updates based on evolving needs. 

• Managing metadata repositories for the data warehouse, including data models, dictionaries, lineage, and quality controls. 

• Evaluating data architecture artifacts to keep them current, accurate, relevant, and accessible. 

• Performing code reviews, advising data team members and application developers on data development practices. 

Skills required: 

• Five to seven years of experience in data architecture, technology infrastructure, event-driven and self-service architectures, and data quality operations. 

• Strong understanding of data warehouse, data governance, MDM (Master Data Management), and metadata architectures. 

• Expert knowledge of cloud-based databases like BigQuery, traditional relational databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, SQL*Server), and familiarity with emerging technologies such as GCP. 

• Familiarity with technologies such as GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and data streaming platforms like Apache Kafka, Pulsar, or Rabbit MQ. 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field, or a combination of education and relevant experience. 

Nice to have: 

• Leadership and mentoring experience. 

• Ecommerce experience