Senior Enterprise Architect (Data) - HMRC - G7

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Main Duties

A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architect and supports the Chief Data Architect. At this level, you will:

• Maintain, enhance and evolve the Enterprise Data Model ensuring alignment to business data needs now and into the future.
• Promote the use of data models and data architecture in designs, providing oversight and governance to project teams who are undertaking new initiatives.
• Provide oversight and advice to data architects who are undertaking the design of data models.
• Support the management of data dictionaries.
• Define, enhance, and promote data standards, ensuring Data Architects and projects are working to the standards.
• Work with solution and technical architects to make sure that the organisation’s systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

You will need to demonstrate within your application the following essential criteria:

• Ability to guide the organisation to make the correct data decisions, promoting reuse and standardisation to achieve value for money.
• Experience in Data Modelling for operational and analytical systems, including conceptual models through to physical schema deployments.
• Experience in developing and governing Data Principles, Policies, Standards, Processes and Procedures.
• Experience in Master Data Management, Data Quality and Data Governance.
• The ability to simplify complex and technical information by using appropriate and accessible language for non-technical audiences.
• An understanding of how all parts of the business model work together including processes, data models and IT operating models.
• Capable of guiding the decision-making process, explaining trade-offs, and making a recommendation based on all the available information.
• The ability to look beyond the immediate problem and identify the wider implications across the enterprise.

Desirable Criteria:

The following skills and experience are desirable:

• Experience of developing data architecture capabilities for operational and analytical systems
• Experience with an Enterprise Data Catalogue and Business Glossary
• Experience of cloud data technologies, enterprise integration tools and Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) tools
• Understanding of the data lifecycle and implications for GDPR
• Either have or work to achieve professional IT qualifications such as TOGAF or CITP
• Experience of Enterprise Architecture modelling using ArchiMate and BPMN notations
• Experience of using Abacus and PowerDesigner

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be asked to give a technical presentation at interview. Details of this will be provided prior to interview.