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DDAT - Lead Data Architect – Data Fabric Strategy
| Posting date: | 06 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | £67,820 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 December 2024 |
| Location: | BS34 8JH, SN13 9NR, SW1A 2HB, SN6 8LA |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 374143 |
Summary
The Enterprise Data Architecture Team has primary responsibility for ensuring the best use of data across the Department, supporting and overseeing the work of data architects across the Ministry of Defence’s complex business landscape. We champion the development of coherent data architecture strategies across the nineteen different Defence organisations to ensure that Defence’s data landscape is more than just the sum of its parts, minimising the time-to-data-value for data users and reducing the burden on data producers.
Reporting to the Chief Data Architect, the Lead Data Architect will have specific responsibility for developing our data fabric, including the enterprise Defence Data & Analytics Platform (DDAP), across the whole Defence enterprise, including front line operations, suppliers and the various public sector Defence organisations. You will engage with data teams and data users across the Defence enterprise to understand the user needs of the organisation. You will push us to improve our data landscape and champion the use of the right technology to reduce the time-to-value for data users. You will have a relentless focus on productivity and efficiency and ensure the various federated data teams across the Defence enterprise can develop products that give decision makers timely and secure access to high quality data.
As a core member of the data architectural leadership team, you will be key to our data architectural governance, reviewing and refining data architectural outputs from individual Defence organisations, and acting as formal reviewer through your role as member of the Data Architectural Reference Authority, with a specific focus on data management technology. You will support lead data architects in different parts of Defence to develop data architectural plans for their area and champion the importance of data architecture to senior leaders to ensure the continual improvement of Defence’s data landscape.
Responsibilities
1. Ongoing design and adoption of Defence’s data fabric:
Developing, championing and communicating conceptual and logical designs for the data fabric and DAPP to senior and peer stakeholders across Defence
Overseeing procurement and solution design for individual data fabric and DAPP components and supporting their rapid deployment and adoption.
Liaising with business areas and understanding their data product landscape
Overseeing the design of data products/services for a range of Defence data users.
2. Acting as a key data architecture governance stakeholder
Ensuring projects across the Defence enterprise publish data to and consume data from the fabric
Managing a small team Data Architects to support you in Data Fabric design
Supporting and developing civil servant data architects
Managing external resources to provide surge capacity in the team
Working alongside Head of Enterprise Data Architecture (peer) to actively review data architecture strategies across the Defence enterprise
3. Managing a small team Data Architects to support you in Data Fabric design
Supporting and developing civil servant data architects
Managing external resources to provide surge capacity in the team
For more information on the Data Architect profession please see the Government Digital and Data Framework;
https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/data-architect#chief-data-architect
Remote working within this role is something that can be discussed at interview stages or with your future line manager if you are found successful.
Reporting to the Chief Data Architect, the Lead Data Architect will have specific responsibility for developing our data fabric, including the enterprise Defence Data & Analytics Platform (DDAP), across the whole Defence enterprise, including front line operations, suppliers and the various public sector Defence organisations. You will engage with data teams and data users across the Defence enterprise to understand the user needs of the organisation. You will push us to improve our data landscape and champion the use of the right technology to reduce the time-to-value for data users. You will have a relentless focus on productivity and efficiency and ensure the various federated data teams across the Defence enterprise can develop products that give decision makers timely and secure access to high quality data.
As a core member of the data architectural leadership team, you will be key to our data architectural governance, reviewing and refining data architectural outputs from individual Defence organisations, and acting as formal reviewer through your role as member of the Data Architectural Reference Authority, with a specific focus on data management technology. You will support lead data architects in different parts of Defence to develop data architectural plans for their area and champion the importance of data architecture to senior leaders to ensure the continual improvement of Defence’s data landscape.
Responsibilities
1. Ongoing design and adoption of Defence’s data fabric:
Developing, championing and communicating conceptual and logical designs for the data fabric and DAPP to senior and peer stakeholders across Defence
Overseeing procurement and solution design for individual data fabric and DAPP components and supporting their rapid deployment and adoption.
Liaising with business areas and understanding their data product landscape
Overseeing the design of data products/services for a range of Defence data users.
2. Acting as a key data architecture governance stakeholder
Ensuring projects across the Defence enterprise publish data to and consume data from the fabric
Managing a small team Data Architects to support you in Data Fabric design
Supporting and developing civil servant data architects
Managing external resources to provide surge capacity in the team
Working alongside Head of Enterprise Data Architecture (peer) to actively review data architecture strategies across the Defence enterprise
3. Managing a small team Data Architects to support you in Data Fabric design
Supporting and developing civil servant data architects
Managing external resources to provide surge capacity in the team
For more information on the Data Architect profession please see the Government Digital and Data Framework;
https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/data-architect#chief-data-architect
Remote working within this role is something that can be discussed at interview stages or with your future line manager if you are found successful.