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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><b><b>Senior Data Architect</b></b></p><p></p><p><b><b>What a Senior Data Architect does</b></b></p><p></p><p>A senior data architect delivers the vision for the organisation’s use of data as set by the lead data architect, providing guidance in the architecture and design of data within the firm&
39;s application landscape. </p><p>They understand a broad range of Data Management disciplines and can easily converse with and translate between non-technical stakeholders and technical practitioners.  They are accountable and responsible for the data architecture and design of all products and services to which they are assigned ensuring the product’s data:-</p><p>- meets business requirements for the product/service </p><p>- is consistent (meaning, format and values) across the organisation</p><p>- conforms to all  <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XBSI_LRoqiAv0GLC9CRyYX1zEFWy2JTKF0VVvDCLzas/edit
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61;id.g5d802cfd49_0_6" target="_blank" rel="no-follow"><u>Data Principles</u></a> and data design standards</p><p>- is aligned with Business and IT architecture and strategy.</p><p></p><p><b>Senior Data Architects:</b></p><ul><li><p>Undertake structured analysis of business data requirements, translating this analysis into data models and designs that comprise the data components of a solution in collaboration with technical and business architects and product teams in order to satisfy functional and nonfunctional requirements.</p></li><li><p>Ensure data is of consistent design across the systems which use it. </p></li><li><p>Create and maintain organisational knowledge about data and the systems it moves through enabling data to be managed as an asset.</p></li><li><p>Can be consulted on the data design of a solution and are capable of providing reusable, data design patterns to ensure consistent data.</p></li><li><p>Are familiar with a range of database and integration technologies so can be consulted on the data design of a solution .</p></li><li><p>Can identify potential risks to data by poor design decisions and can explain these to stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse data components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Work with Product Management and Technical Architects to define data roadmaps for products</p></li><li><p>Regularly connect with fellow architects to draw on and share expertise and experiences </p></li><li><p>Ensure data architectural decisions align to agreed standards and guidelines or seek exceptions as required</p></li><li><p>Contribute to populating and evolving the broader reference data architecture, best practice, and data  leadership</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><b>Essential Skills </b></b></p><ul><li><p>Communication skills (data) - Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical. Making and guiding decisions </p></li><li><p>Translate business needs into data design</p></li><li><p>Data Modelling</p></li><li><p>Metadata management</p></li><li><p>Strategic thinking within data architecture</p></li><li><p>Data governance and data standard</p></li><li><p>Problem resolutions</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><b>Desirable Skills</b></b></p><ul><li><p>Capable of supporting production of strategy for the management of data</p></li><li><p>Data Innovation</p></li><li><p>Data analysis and synthesis</p></li><li><p>Data communications</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><b>The skills we look for in future employees</b></b></p><p></p><p>All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’.</p><p></p><p>The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop and assess our people, at all grades and all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.</p><p></p><p><b><a href="http://www.pwc.com/uk/en/careers/experienced/applying-to-pwc.jhtml" target="_blank" rel="no-follow"><u>http://www.pwc.com/uk/en/careers/experienced/applying-to-pwc.html</u></a></b></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><img src="https://www.applytracking.com/tp/rj6-gI0rU-J.K" rel="no-follow" />