Job Description:

Data Solution Architect - Customer
£750.00 per day (Umbrella)
6 Month Contract
London (Hybrid)

Our client is seeking an experience Data Solutions Architect to design customer data solutions within our Data Architecture & Design Team.

Within this role you will work with stakeholders to define future data strategies, deliver measurable outcomes like better personalisation and data quality, and ensure solutions align with business goals. The role covers managing, governing and extracting value from customer data systems.

You'll collaborate across architecture, product, analytics, governance, security, and CRM teams while assessing changing and shaping effective data solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across Customer-focused initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership on Customer data architecture, ensuring solutions support consistent, trusted Customer data across all channels.
• Propose design patterns and solutions that enable Customer data management, integration, enrichment, and governance.
• Create and maintain design artefacts for Customer data solutions to enable engineering teams to build effectively, or solutions to be acquired and integrated.
• Review Customer data solutions for compliance with design principles and functional/non-functional requirements.
• Lead design decisions and best practices for Customer data management, identity resolution, and master data management.
• Stay abreast of industry trends in Customer data technologies and Retail data strategies.

Skills Required:

Essential -

• Proven experience designing and/or selecting secure, scalable, performant Customer data solutions in a Retail environment
• Understanding of data lake/lakehouse solutions and their role in Customer data architecture
• Strong knowledge of Analytics and Reporting best practices for Customer insights
• Familiarity with Data Governance and enterprise security requirement
• Ability to create Key Design Principles (KDPs) and Key Design Decisions (KDDs)
• Excellent communication skills for presenting solution proposals to senior stakeholders
• Experience of reviewing and approving designs produced by others, checking for architectural alignment and recommending changes where appropriate

Desirable -

• Experience designing Azure-based Customer data solutions, including storage, transformation, metadata management, orchestration, lineage, and logging.
• Understanding of Machine Learning/AI applications for Customer personalization.
• Familiarity with capabilities supported by Databricks for Customer data processing.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodology
• Review and mentoring others.

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to apply! Please note that in the event of high volumes of applications, we will only be able to respond to successful applications in the first instance.

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