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Lead Data Architect

Lead Data Architect

Dublin

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Lead Data Architect to lead the data architecture function for Aviva with a vision of becoming a data driven and AI enabled organisation. As a lead data architect, the role involves ensuring architecture governance for end-to-end data delivery across the lines of business.


Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Lead the enterprise data roadmap including current, target and transition states in line with the Data & AI strategy.

  • Maintain the market solution architecture designs and playbooks for adoption of modern data warehousing tech like Snowflake and strategic data platform & analytics capabilities.

  • Ensure successful delivery of market initiatives working alongside the solution architects and data architects from the programme.

  • Own the target state data & analytics platforms architecture and transition states from current state, per LoB. Ensure supporting identification and quantification of pain-points for the latter, and overall roadmap acceptance and alignment with the business teams.

  • Steer and quantifying the value of data platforms transformation. Shape overall data roadmaps, co-created with domain SMEs from the business, to give an overall and coherent view across data in Aviva.

Skills & Experience:

  • Data architecture expertise with rich experience in delivering large scale data transformation programmes.

  • Experience in delivering Snowflake as an enterprise capability & deep knowledge of its ecosystem.

  • Experience in key data architecture functions across ingestion, transformation, visualisation, metadata management leveraging tools like Snowflake, AWS services, dbtCloud, Collibra.

  • Experience in delivering data products aligned to business requirements and aligned to the data mesh principles in the modern data warehousing paradigm.

  • Practically leading successful technical adoption of modern data warehousing capability into an enterprise organisation.

  • Strong senior stakeholder communicator, with experience in executive communication.

What will you get for this role?

  • Competitive market leading salary depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.

  • Generous pension (employee contribution matching of up to 14% if you contribute 8%)

  • Annual performance related bonus and pay review.

  • Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays, and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.

  • Free car parking

  • Generous Health & dental insurance contributions after six months

  • Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme and Approved Profit Share Scheme

  • Cycle to Work benefit scheme.

  • TaxSaver Travel Scheme

  • Family friendly parent’s (matching paternity and maternity leave) and carer’s leave.

  • Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products plus discounts for Friends and Family

  • Employee Assistance Programme

  • Volunteering days

  • Professional qualification support and transparent career progression plans

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