- Delivering Data platform solutions. Focus on Cloud Warehousing
- Free access to company holiday homes
- Buy & sell holidays
- Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
- Matched pension contribution
- Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
- Life assurance and Critical illness cover
- Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
- Free local gym access
- Local bar / restaurant discounts
We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.
We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 800 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.8 billion loan book.
Job Description
As the Data Solution Architect, you will report into the Lead Solution Architect and be responsible for thought leadership and solution design for various projects and programmes across the business. You will be joining the business at a time of huge tech change as we deliver our new company wide platform. As such much of your initial work will be supporting Cloud Warehousing and the delivery of our new Data Bricks Platform (although prior Data Bricks experience isn't essential) More broadly, you will be ensuring that the right capabilities exist to enable the strategic priorities of your stakeholders and wider organisation, with a particular focus on data architecture.
You will create and maintain the technical roadmaps for your assigned remit and ensures that changes are designed, appraised and documented. You will enjoy support from your direct Solution Architect team, wider data and BA Teams as well as the broader Tech Teams.
You will essentially be using your expertise to supporting the development of the overarching IT Strategy, target architecture and target operating model for our business as we go through a period of tech transformation and beyond.
Duties include (but not limited to):
- Continually improve the maturity of the Architecture practice within Together
- Maintain the technical components of the Together Metamodel, data, applications and technology.
- Create Architecture documents
- Act as a trainer and mentor to technical colleagues in the business
- Work with key business stakeholders: understanding requirements, reviewing current capabilities and then co-creating blueprints to help them achieve their aims
- Evaluate and adopt innovative data technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
- Support Director of Data and BI in managing the data platform roadmap, including upgrades, migrations, and technical change initiatives.
- Align data architecture with other architectural domains / contribute to Enterprise Architecture repository
- Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams, ensuring data solutions are implemented as designed.
- Reference and incorporate conceptual / logical data models and entity definitions managed by the Technical Data Steward into solution designs
- Ensure that data flows, APIs, and integrations respect the defined entities and relationships
Essential skills & experience
- Strong background in Architecture in a technology function
- A strategic thinker; capable of balancing long-term and immediate business requirements
- Experience working within agile and waterfall delivery models
- Cloud Data Warehouse experience (i.e. Azure Databricks Lakehouse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and hybrid architectures.
- Knowledge or understanding of various Architecture methods (SOA, Event Driven, Micro services)
- Knowledge & experience of data modelling tools and techniques including 3NF, Kimball, Data Vault etc
- Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (i.e. Terraform).
- Proficiency using Architecture tooling (i.e. Bizzdesign, Ardoq, Enterprise Architect)
- Experience working in a Salesforce / nCino environment
If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.
Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.
