Solutions Architect – Data

Permanent Role

Dublin City Centre (remote initially with equipment provided)

Salary Negotiable

This role will work with a small team of specialists delivering a modern data platform, to underpin the company’s growth through digital services.

To be successful you will need to demonstrate:

Clear understanding of the impact of digitisation on the Life & Pensions sector and on IS delivery;
Solution Architecture experience, especially data architecture;
Ability to influence & effectively support Senior IS and Business leaders;
Excellent collaboration skills both with your own team and with your peers across the IS organisation.

Key Accountabilities

Specific duties

Explore and clarify architectural data requirements for all internal projects, around the collection, cleansing, storage, sharing and use of data;
Design the architecture of a typical toolbox of data technologies and communicate this design to a broad audience;
Provide architectural direction on the technical aspects of data engineering and analytics;

Research, develop & implement architectural best practice for data (data governance, data management, data quality monitoring & automated cleansing);
Provide clear, concise data models & structures needed to develop/ configure solutions that unlock business value

Essential Skills, Experience & Competencies

7+ years systems/solutions architecture experience;
Strong stakeholder management and communications skills, both written and verbal to communicate complex ideas and explain technology and systems;
Knowledge of regulations on data collection, use, storage (for example, infosec) and sharing (for example, GDPR) – in the Ireland and internationally – and how they affect technical requirements;
Architectural knowledge of the Azure & AWS public cloud platforms, associated NoSQL databases, integration and reporting technologies;