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Job Description
Due to continued growth within our professional services, we are looking for a Solution Architect to join our data practice - working with some of the best data professionals in the country.
You will play an integral part in taking our data services to market - providing technical and strategic thought across the whole lifecycle of data projects from presales through to sign-off and support.
A day in the life of an Aiimi Solution Architect:
- Taking on technical ownership of data projects and transitioning them from presales to delivery
- Translating customers business goals and data strategies into technical delivery roadmaps - making expert recommendations on data tools and technology stacks
- Architect data and digital solutions that deliver against business strategies and IT roadmaps
- Implementing data and digital platforms using technology from the Microsoft Azure stack
- Effort estimation and planning of data projects including resource planning and sizing
- Providing technical leadership and direction across data architecture, data engineering, data visualisation and data science
- Thought leadership around new technologies and approaches for value delivery from data
- Drive the creation, evolution and socialisation of the service playbooks
- Support the sales team in responding to framework bids, technical presales requests as well as with existing account mining from a data and digital perspective
- Support technical partnership conversations with existing, new and potential partners
- Expert knowledge of data platform architecture, concepts and approaches
- Advanced knowledge of data management, data governance and data privacy (GDPR)
- Advanced presentation and communication skills (both tech and non-tech audience)
- Experience in influencing business and technical stakeholders towards desired outcome
- Knowledge of Agile data project management and DevOps/DataOps
- Demonstrable experience in delivering data projects from concept through to completion
- Implementation of data platform using Microsoft Azure stack (AWS and/or GCP would be of added benefit)
- Experience of using technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Analysis Services, Databricks and Power BI (or equivalent technologies within AWS or GCP stack)
- Experience of implementing centralised data repositories and/or Data warehouses
- Competitive starting salary
- Up to 10% of basic salary in flexible benefits (to include death in service and critical illness cover as standard plus private healthcare, dental, pension etc.)
- 25 Days holiday (excluding bank holidays) - increasing by a day every 2 years
- Flexible working
- Promote training and personal development
- Bi-annual company retreats