Data and Analytics Architect

Cognizant ,
London, Greater London
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We are currently seeking a Data & Analytics Architect to join our Cognizant Consulting business in London. The team works passionately to secure successes for our clients by re imagining, redefining, and transforming their businesses to create new sources of value and become digital leaders. We do this by working in a true partnership relationship, ensuring our clients become digitally relevant and enabling them to maximize their own markets. We aim to achieve actionable insights and innovative solutions. This is a true testament to our team who is a well-connected practice and is focused on turning our clients’ initial ideas, visions and strategies into successful and well-landed uplift. The successful candidate will work on our client site and will sit within the Product Group. The role will be responsible for the overall architecture, including service, for a product group (product road map) and quality assurance of architectural decisions, technical designs to ensure alignment to enterprise platform and integration strategies, standards and patterns. Key responsibilities will involve: Shaping the relevant Data Architecture road maps which identifies the scope, prioritization and time frames for delivery of capability as well as addressing technical debt Producing architectural solutions including technology and service ensuring solutions consider capacity management, ITSCM, security and software licensing requirements, high level outlined architecture to detailed architecture, and where required, high level technical designs that are aligned to enterprise architecture standards, cover any required product group integration and all relevant architecture domains align with enterprise product strategies to meet agreed acceptance / definition of ready criteria Review and quality assure artefacts ensuring the quality of the delivered solution to fulfill business and non-functional requirements and adhere to strategic vision for the product group Identifying opportunities for product innovation and shape design proposals for taking this forward; driving innovation at a product level where this delivers quick wins and business benefit and is in the boundary of the product roadmap Supporting Integration and functional testing to ensure conformance to business acceptance and readiness criteria, identifying and responding to capacity, licensing and security risks. Experience and skills required: Previous experience in a solution design role in the Data & Analytics domain Experience in developing solutions in using Cloudera/Horton Works/AWS EMR related products\services Experience in designing complex and large scale ETL pipelines on AWS using EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, EMR Spark, Glue and EC2/ECS. They must also be conversant with Automation tools such as Terraform, Cloud formation and Chef/Puppet Experience of data and analytical solution designs, such as related to Data Warehousing, Data Lake and must be conversant with Data Modelling tools and techniques Experience of working across varied technology domains such as Business Applications, Data, Infrastructure, Integration and Security An interest in emerging technologies and innovation Prior background in software development (desirable) Ability to interact with clients and stakeholders at all levels Excellent interpersonal and communication skill – both oral and written A strong teamwork ethic with a proven ability to work collaboratively Highly developed critical thinking, interpretative and analytical skills A willingness to learn, grow and stretch in new roles and different industries Flexibility to travel to client sites across the UK. About Cognizant: Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients'? business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 193 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us Cognizant. This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89766936

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