EY Director Data Architect - Digital & Emerging 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

924084167

Your key responsibilities
• As a Data Architect, you will support our clients in defining and implementing a data journey aligned with their strategic objectives.

• Create solution designs and estimates for complexity, effort and costs
• Participate in presentations and proposals for medium and highly complex projects.

• Create high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource for Data architecture, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems.
• Design, develop and implement data strategy, data collection, transformation, data integration and data analytics solutions
• Providing expertise and support across the enterprise information framework, including data intake, data transformation, data quality, metadata and master data management, data virtualisation, data governance, data lineage, data services, data security and data lakes.

• Lead technology consulting engagements, solution workshops and due diligence
• Work closely with Solution Architects to help domains with data modelling understand the fundamental concepts of master systems of record.
• As a senior team member, shape and manage engagement teams as needed required

• Drive business development through the winning of new clients.

To qualify for the role, you must have
• Proven experience, with solid experience as a Data Architect, Solutions Architect, or similar role in a consulting environment.

• Comprehensive experience in developing and maintaining enterprise data models for analytics using dimensional, star, snowflake or data vault methodologies.
• Proficient in implementing and maintaining Master and Reference Data Management to ensure data accuracy and integrity across the organisation.
• Comprehensive expertise in programming languages and tools for data preparation, analysis and reporting

• At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership
• Excellent understanding of:
• data wrangling and standard data cleansing, in different formats, including CSVs and structured tables.

• Microsoft BI toolset, including O365 tools and Power Platform (Powerapps/Powerautomate/PowerBI)
• Azure cloud ETL toolset, including Azure SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Datalake.
• Cloud infrastructure including Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure, Identity & Access Management, data stores connections, cloud functions concepts.

• Familiar with Big Data infrastructures, including file-based and in-memory big data platforms.
• Excellent understanding of cloud architectures, including data , security, platforms as a service, data privacy models.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal including ability to convey designs and solutions to both technical and business audiences

• Strong adherence to data governance policies including security, architecture, data quality and data retention
• Proven experience in managing the data lifecycle from various data sources to delivering reports and visualisation to end-users
• Experience in working in Agile development environments

Ideally, you’ll also have
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management, or related field

• Participation in the opensource community.
• Exposure to automation or digital transformation.
• Expert level certification in MS Azure, AWS Cloud or Google Cloud, data engineering or similar track.

What we look for

We’re interested in candidates with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer

You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
•We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
•You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.