[Hiring] Data Solution Architect @Kainos

Role Description

As a Data Solution Architect (Manager) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for multi-skilled agile teams to design and deliver contemporary data solutions. You will be a quality-oriented pragmatist, balancing trade-offs to successfully deliver complex solutions. You will be viewed as an authority figure for data technology solutions, providing strong technical and thought leadership.

• Successfully implementing functional and non-functional designs
• Working closely with Ops and Infrastructure architects to productionise robust, resilient, and maintainable data solutions
• Collaborating with customer architects to agree on functional and non-functional designs, advising, questioning, informing, and helping the customer in making sound solution design outcomes
• Developing policy and standards, sharing knowledge, and mentoring peers
• Managing and estimating timelines underpinning solution delivery
• Owning technical solution design as part of a pre-sales process
• Contributing significantly to the data community and wider data capability
• Managing, coaching, and developing a small number of staff, focusing on employee performance and career development

Qualifications

• Experience of leading multiple teams as the data solution architect, with ownership of a system of systems
• Experience in designing, building, and productionising modern data-intensive applications including orchestration and operation
• Broad knowledge of the full spectrum of data technologies (data ingestion, transformation, storage, presentation, consumption)
• Strategic design thinking experience, including problem conceptualisation, approach and roadmap definition, architecture realisation, and risk management
• Comfortable with traditional and contemporary data warehousing concepts
• Experience of deploying data-processing platforms from vendors such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks
• Comfortable in one or more of Java, Scala, or Python with the ability to be ‘hands on’ when required
• Demonstrated ability in managing, coaching, and developing members of your team and wider community

Requirements

• Knowledge of wider Data Architecture concepts, for example Master Data Management, Masking, Data Governance, Provenance, and Lineage
• Experience of Technical Evaluation and product selection
• Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, change data capture, or data virtualisation

Company Description

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are.

Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.