Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect

£65,000 to £75,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)

Manchester city centre (hybrid working)

Please Note: We’re open to applications from candidates who may require flexible working arrangements. There’ll be an opportunity to discuss your flexible working requirements during the interview process, and at offer stage.

This role is eligible for Skilled Worker (Tier 2) visa sponsorship

We’re looking for a Senior Data Architect to join us in Manchester to manage and develop our future ERP Platform data and reporting architecture, while making sure that what we currently have in place is fit for purpose. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – splitting your time between home and the office.

As a Senior Data Architect, we’ll look to you to help us make the most out of our ERP Platform data assets and reporting capabilities; using these to influence decision making. Working closely alongside our project and enterprise architecture teams, you’ll own the ERP Platform data architecture roadmap for capabilities.

What you’ll do

• Be accountable for our end-to-end ERP Platform data architecture 
• Analyse the different processes, data, and reporting requirements from across the business
• Design new data models, logical models, data flows, and datamarts
• Develop and prepare functional specifications for data architecture
• Develop data architecture guardrails including a data reference architecture
• Work closely alongside colleagues to define metadata layers, technical strategy and optimal integration within our existing IT landscape

This role would suit people who have

• Experience working in a Data Architect role
• A proven track record of successfully managing data architecture at a solution level
• Experience working with data warehouse and business intelligence solutions
• Experience in modelling and governing data in motion and data at rest
• A good understanding of ERP solutions (e.g. SAP)

Why Co-op?

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

• Private healthcare
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• YuLife – an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

Building an inclusive work environment

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

We welcome applications from candidates who need Skilled Worker (Tier 2) visas to work in the UK.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

Please be aware that we may close applications for this role early