Data Solution Architect

Cognizant is seeking a Data Solution Architect to join a well-established client in Sydney. This role involves creating high level designs that ensure the successful delivery of high quality solutions which align and contribute to longer term technology objectives. This role will collaborate with project teams and partners to lead and provide end-to-end solution design, design governance and hands-on delivery. Solution Architects will ensure high level solution designs are developed that:

• address the required functional and non-functional requirements,

• while aligning align with strategic business and architectural directions, and

• engage throughout the project life cycle to contribute to successful program delivery.

In your first few weeks in this Solution architect role, you can expect to:

• Wide industry knowledge of best practices, technology directions, solution design and how to innovatively apply these to shape, scope, design and build out technology based services for the client.
• Combine a knowledge of industry trends and research outcomes to influence, inform and improve technology related management decisions.
• Provide facilitate the provision of expert technical leadership across multi-disciplinary teams to promote the successful delivery of technology capabilities
• Collaborate with Domain and Enterprise architects, Technology Leads, SME's, BAU support staff, and partners to shape, promote and contribute to the development and advancement of a target stage technology and business roadmaps.
• Engage regularly with technology vendors and utilise available research services to remain abreast of market activities, best practices and to educate business representatives around technology directions
• Lead the preparation of solution designs that are aligned to target or current state domain and enterprise architectures, and strategic goals through the clear capture of functional requirements and the underlying non-functional requirements
• Ensure attention to is paid to the technical quality attributes of security, scalability, maintainability, flexibility, availability, deliverability and integration is considered along with reusing existing or emerging new capabilities.
• Ensure all facets of the design and candidate technology components are integrated to deliver an architecturally compliant solution.
• Work in conjunction with technical leads, performing hands-on development to reinforce understanding of development issues which will aid in continually improving solution designs, patterns and standards.
• Engage throughout the program life cycle to ensure that solution designs are delivered and comply with the appropriate levels of technical quality attributes
• Review & assess detailed system designs throughout the program life cycle to ensure they continue to align to original High Level Design and Domain and Enterprise Architecture strategies,
• In consultation with Domain and Enterprise Architects facilitate business engagement and build support for designing innovative solutions that help advance broader strategic capabilities.
• Utilise agile, lean & customer design methodologies where appropriate in your work

To apply for this Data Solution architect role, your soft skills, expertise, and experience should include:

• A minimum 5 years' experience designing and contributing to the delivery of innovative data driven solutions
• Exceptional communications skills to convey complex information in simple terms able to be understood by non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated talents in problem solving, collaboration, consultation and working within both formal and informal team environments
• Proven experience and technical understanding of end to end information/data related technologies and best practices including: Data sourcing, Extract/Transform/Load (ETL), Third Normal Form (3NF) modelling, dimensional modelling, reporting, as well as a sound understanding of established data management policy's and principles.
• Experience in working across a range of cloud and on-premise technologies
• Experience in working in Redshift or related DWH DB
• Basic familiarity reading and understanding software code in one or more languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl or similar.
• Strong analytical ability with a capability to pitch technical information to staff at multiple levels within the organisation (including non-technical audiences)
• Ability to rapidly acquire an understanding of complex business problems/requirements to develop solutions and designs, regardless of existing areas of expertise or specialisation.
• Ability to work at varying levels of detail from high level architecture to low level aspects of component design
• Ability to present Solution architecture models in Architecture councils and work through the approval process
• Experience and knowledge in BI Analytics and Reporting tools - Cognos, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Planning Analytics (TM1)
• Experience in these skills will be advantageous : AWS, IBM Data tool set, RPA & Data science platform

You'll receive an excellent salary and benefits package for your knowledge, expertise and flexibility. At Cognizant, taking care of employees is a priority:

• You can pursue innovative career tracks and opportunities here

• You can enhance your professional development through education and dedicated training

• We'll give you the skills you need to keep pace with the changing workplace while our compensation, benefits and wellness packages help you stay healthy and plan for the future.

If this full-time role in Sydney motivates and inspires you, please get in touch with Cognizant today. We'd love to help you get your next role.

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