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Role: Data Architect
Location: National - Can be based at our Bracknell, Birmingham, London or Manchester office (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: Competitive base salary, company car/car allowance plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm, Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
Working with customers to understand their business data challenges and develop data solutions to meet these requirements. Working alongside the broader Hyperscale solution architects to ensure close integration with our public cloud standards.
Security Clearance, or the willingness to apply will be required for this role.
Key responsibilities:
- Leverages knowledge of resources (e.g., roles, Microsoft Technology Centre [MTC], demo sites, virtual sites) and proactively engages product teams (e.g., engineering) to remediate escalated technical blockers by conveying impact and anticipating and addressing future potential blockers based on needs.
- You will work collaboratively with account teams to determine the best engagements for a given opportunity to maximize customer benefit and accelerate deals success. You will use your technical knowledge to show customers an inspiring digital vision, across all Public Cloud workloads, as well as deeper engagement in your core specialism.
- You will map the agreed customer vision into a strategy for implementation, resolving concerns, removing technical blockers, and validating a good business case for investment.
- You will work with the customer, wider account team resources and our partners to orchestrate a roadmap for implementation.
- Uses knowledge of customer context, and deep technical, domain, and industry knowledge to build credibility with customers.
- Leads and ensures complex technical wins (e.g., cross-workload, cross-team, cross-geo, subsidiary-level impact) by establishing rules of engagement, coaching others, leveraging knowledge of processes, tools, and programs (e.g., FastTrack, End Customer Investment Funds [ECIFs]). Ensures alignment of Microsoft technologies with future sector standards and requirements by working with industry boards and driving customer case studies and references.
Skills and experience:
- Good experience working in Azure/AWS infrastructure or data roles.
- Experience working in a technology service provider; understands the role of an MSP.
- Demonstrable evidence of working with customers to develop data solutions resulting in successful business outcomes
- Excellent communication (verbal & written), organisational, data interpretation, analytical, presentation, interpersonal, influencing and leadership skills.
- Demonstrable experience with Microsoft Data Services Portfolio including Data Warehouses, Data Factory and Synapse
- Experience in Data Architecture role with an understanding of architecture frameworks, data modelling and data warehousing
- Experience defining data lake and data warehousing architectures and supporting schemas and pipelines
- Experience with Cloud based ETL/ELT technologies and reporting tools, Power BI