Data Architect - #234597

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Role Summary

As part of our investment into Technology, Operations and Product, Kantar is looking for a dedicated Data Architect to join our engineering community and help us define and drive the future of our bespoke Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) built on cutting edge technologies on Azure Cloud. We are also leveraging Azure Data Governance product suite to enrich our Data Management capabilities.

You will partner with our software engineering teams, architects and product managers to drive data governance and data architecture leadership for our ambitious product roadmaps!

Kantar is investing in a major technology transformation to harness and enrich our technology capabilities in Data Engineering and Data Science space, and our commitment to delivery excellence across our engineering function is critical to underpin this. This is an exciting time to join Kantar on this journey and play a pivotal role in building great solutions for our customers and clients! Reporting into Kantar’s Technology division, this role will be instrumental for the end-to-end delivery of Kantar’s data product roadmap.

Key Responsabilities

The Data Architect will have to:

• Produce industry-standard conceptual data models, and be involved in designing the logical/physical representation

• Ensure data models are optimal for the various access patterns (e.g., Data Analytics, Data Science, Application – real-time & batch)

• Ensure data models are catalogued and change management is documented and approved

• Define data guardrails in the form of data dictionaries and data mappings to be adopted by the enterprise for consistent data definitions

• Assess the impact on models resulting from upstream changes or downstream consumption changes

• Play a governance role, driving Master Data Management/Reference Data Management principles to support our Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) and respective products

• Implement policies around cost management and play a key role in capacity forecasting

• Define Data Governance framework and data architecture designs – focusing ownership on the centralised data models

• Define access management approaches and techniques to secure our data – keeping in mind regulatory and privacy requirements

• Produce as-is assessment and technology recommendations to improve the technical capabilities for Data Quality, Data Privacy, Reference Data, Metadata (RDM) and Master Data Management (MDM)

• Be an ambassador for the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) and Data Catalogue capabilities

• Be an ambassador for good data design principles to best support the end users/applications

• Guide and collaborate with engineering teams during implementations

• Play an SME consultant role in encouraging standard processes in data modelling to the product domains/divisions, recommend improvements to existing models

• Collaborate with team members to understand requirements and priorities for the functional and non-functional aspects of a data product/application

Capabilities and experience

Essential Experience

• Demonstrated ability in a similar role

• Deep experience in creating enterprise data models (Conceptual, Logical) using industry-standard toolsets

• Data literate: understands how to derive value from trusted data and partners with end-users to elicit and translate requirements into suitable data structures

• Worked with Data Catalogue tools (e.g., BIGID, Alation, Purview)

• Experience with anonymisation/tokenisation techniques to support both storing and consuming the data

• Experience in setting up scalable access management frameworks to ensure only the right consumers can view the appropriate data

• Rich experience in Technology stacks (Cloud-native) on Data Management and Governance aspects (Data Privacy, Data Quality, RDM and MDM)

• Experience in implementing Data Governance framework and technology stack for a complex Enterprise Data Platform (EDP)

• Experience in implementing analytics and BI report ecosystem for seamless and secure data consumption

• Experience building and supporting production-grade applications in the public cloud (esp. Azure or AWS)

• Define data modelling principles – both traditional and modern (OLTP, DWH, Data Vault, Feature Engineering for Data Science, API Schema)

• Understand the benefits of Reference Data Management and Master Data Management – and have been involved in implementation that involved one or both.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in developing data products/applications related to Analytics & Data Science

• Knowledge of data privacy methodologies for safe and secure data democratisation

• Worked in designing models that play to the strengths of Azure Synapse and/or Databricks consumers.

• TOGAF certified

• Experience with modern cloud data technology stacks e.g., within Azure

• Knowledge on Microservice, event-driven, and API led architectures

• Training, certification and/or extensive reading in SAFe / Lean-Agile development practices

Skills

• Ability to communicate fluently in English – especially when conveying technical detail and business value

• Excellent organisational and analytical abilities

• Outstanding problem solver

• Experience working with remote teams across multiple countries

• Invest on continual learning to cross/up skill on the ever-evolving technology landscape

• Stakeholder Management skills at all levels

• Confident in making pitches to business and IT audiences – “influence others through evidence”

• Self-directed, comfortable with challenging and leading on best practice, and adaptable to shifting business requirements and occasional ambiguity.

• Personable, approachable, highly self-motivated and driven

• Innovative and positive teammate

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.