Data Architect jobs in Germany

Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID: SF19441

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting edge defence technology to ground breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Lead Data Architect at our Malvern site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

As a Lead Data Architect, you will join the Data Science, Engineering and Assurance group take ownership of the Data Architecture developing and owning the Data Migration Plan.

Day-to-day, you will be responsible for its evolution, adoption, and deployment of the Data Migration Plan into secure customer environments. You will set the technical direction, making pragmatic architectural decisions providing hand-on leadership to a team of Data Engineers and Analysts.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Mapping and documenting data flows identifying where unstructured and structured data resides and how it moves within and between systems
• Designing and maintaining data architecture and defining how data is structured, stored and accessed across systems
• Blending strategy and delivery maintaining and refining the target architecture and roadmap, establishing standards and governance
• Working closely with engineering to ensure designs are buildable, testable and supportable

Essential experience of the Lead Data Architect:

• Extensive experience in data architecture including ownership of architecture on complex programmes
• The proven ability to take an established architecture, own it and evolve it through clear roadmaps, standards, patterns and governance
• Strong knowledge of data governance: metadata, lineage, data quality, stewardship, and lifecycle management
• The ability to lead engineers with clear technical direction, pragmatic decisions and mentoring them in a multidisciplinary environment
• Previous experience designing and governing architecture for constrained environments
• Operating as a Data Architect with a security mindset of the architecture

Essential qualifications for the Lead Data Architect:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week-based Malvern. Hybrid working patterns available. This role will involve travel to customer sites.

The Malvern facility is noted for its work in electronic warfare, surveillance and complex system integration, contributing significantly to the UK’s defence capabilities. Developing technologies for military and civilian applications, including sensors, communications and cyber security

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be willing to go through DV Clearance.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)