Whiteshield: Data Architect

<div><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Design and implement scalable, secure, and high‑performing data architectures across cloud and hybrid environments</li><li>Define enterprise data models, standards, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency and interoperability</li><li>Architect modern data platforms (data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses) to support analytics, AI, and operational use cases</li><li>Lead client engagements as a trusted advisor on data strategy, architecture, and platform design</li><li>Translate business and policy objectives into structured data solutions and pipelines</li><li>Establish data governance practices including data quality, lineage, cataloguing, and access control</li><li>Design data integration strategies across multiple systems, APIs, and external data sources</li><li>Enable AI and advanced analytics use cases by ensuring data is structured, accessible, and production‑ready</li><li>Collaborate with engineering teams to implement pipelines, orchestration, and real‑time/streaming architectures</li><li>Balance long‑term architecture vision with rapid delivery in dynamic environments</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>7+ years data architecture experience with deep Oracle and SQL Server expertise</li><li>Informatica PowerCenter (or equivalent ETL platform)</li><li>Change Data Capture (CDC) for incremental and near real‑time sync</li><li>Complex source‑to‑target mapping across large schema landscapes</li><li>Bidirectional sync with conflict resolution strategies</li><li>Data quality profiling, validation, and reconciliation frameworks</li><li>Data governance, lineage tracking, and metadata cataloguing</li></ul><h3>Good to Have</h3><ul><li>Domain‑driven data modelling (database‑per‑service patterns)</li><li>Liquibase or equivalent schema change management</li><li>Physical schema design from logical/conceptual model</li></ul><h3>Tech Stack</h3><ul><li>Data Platforms: Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake</li><li>Databases: Postgres, MSSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch</li><li>Processing: Spark, Python, SQL</li><li>Cloud: Azure, AWS, or GCP</li><li>Orchestration: Airflow, Prefect, or similar</li><li>DevOps: CI/CD, Docker, Terraform</li><li>Analytics&BI: Power BI, Tableau, Looker</li></ul><h3>Benefits</h3><p>Meaningful impact: Your work helps shape products used at national scale - enabling people to access services, opportunities, and support that make a real difference in everyday lives.</p><p>Creative freedom: You will have room to explore ideas, test approaches, and raise the bar for design quality - even in complex, regulated environments. We value thoughtful experimentation and encourage new ways of working.</p><p>High‑calibre collaboration: You'll work alongside talented people across policy, data, design, and technology - bringing different perspectives together to solve complex problems well.</p><p>Flexibility that works: We operate in an outcome‑driven, remote‑friendly way that respects individual working styles. Trust, autonomy, and balance are core to how we work.</p><p>Supportive culture: You will join a team that values respect, inclusion, and wellbeing - where people are encouraged to do their best work without burning out.</p></div>#J-18808-Ljbffr