Hybrid Data Architect

at Bupa

• Job title: Data Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Google Cloud Platform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Data Architect responsible for shaping data architecture and governance frameworks in a healthcare company. Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure data availability and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Develop data strategy, data roadmaps, data architecture principles, patterns, and standards, and agree and communicate.
• Work alongside the data platform capability to ensure the successful delivery of data architecture.
• Identify master data sources i.e. applications, key reference data, mapping data flows between applications, identifying data duplication / reusability opportunities, identifying data recency issues / data quality issues and the development of a data catalogue.
• Develop Data Architecture collateral (data catalogue, data models etc..) to describe and communicate data architecture best practices, patterns and standards.
• Work alongside solution architects on transformation projects to ensure technical solutions are supported by appropriate data architecture approaches.
• Own the adoption and population of data modelling and cataloguing tools.
• Manage risk and ensure compliance to protect Bupa, our people and our customers - Develop roadmap, policy, and procedures to ensure consistency in how data is sourced and used to ensure data quality and integrity: Identify, map, document, and increase visibility of enterprise data for Reporting, Analytics and Data Science solutions using Bupa data architecture guidelines.
• Work with business stakeholders to develop, implement, maintain and propagate Bupa-wide data management policies, standards and guidelines related to data assets.
• Develop communication plans for data consumers so they are aware of data governance standards and available resources for accurate reporting of Bupa data.
• Advocate data use and data protection practices for Data Governance in partnership with Bupa Privacy and Security Governance teams.

Requirements

• Strong Data Governance experience covering: Data Quality, Reference Data, Master Data, Metadata, Practices, Catalogue, Classification and Glossary development
• Experience with Master Data Management, data modelling & data architecture
• Experience with Cloud (GCP) based Data Platforms, Structured and Unstructured data. - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) certification(s) or equivalent highly regarded.
• Data Modelling: - Dimensional - Entity Relational
• Strong focus on cloud first approaches
• Strong communication and stakeholders’ management skills
• Agile/Lean/Flow approach

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year.
• Management bonus scheme
• Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing
• Access to our confidential employee assistance programme
• Workplace pension
• Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.