Lead Data Architect

🕒 April 24

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Aker Systems

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Venture Round on 2020-07

AI • Data Infrastructure • Cybersecurity

Aker Systems is a data infrastructure company that specializes in modernizing cloud data environments to empower enterprises with real-time data capabilities. Their mission is to enable secure, seamless, and enterprise-scale data flow in the public cloud, supporting organizations in becoming data-driven. Aker Systems is recognized for its contributions to innovation and has recently received accolades for its workplace culture and leadership in data management.

📋 Description

• Engage with stakeholders, both internal and external, to understand business requirements, provide strategic guidance, and ensure that data solutions meet their objectives • Support the design, development, and implementation of data architectures that meet the needs of our clients, ensuring alignment with security, performance, and scalability requirements • Utilise extensive experience with AWS tooling and other cloud providers to architect and deploy secure, cloud-native solutions for batch and real-time data processing • Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, ensuring best practices in data architecture, security, and cloud computing • Proficiency in data modelling, ETL processes, data warehousing, distributed systems and metadata systems • Utilise Apache Flink and other streaming technologies to build real-time data processing systems that handle large-scale, high-throughput data • Ensure all data solutions comply with industry standards and government regulations, maintaining the highest levels of data security and integrity • Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences • Support the sales and pre-sales teams by providing expert advice and input on proposals, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with client needs • Advise and support on breaches of data standards and make recommendations about how they should be resolved • Stay up to date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies, data architecture, and security practices, and apply this knowledge to continuously improve our offerings.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data architecture, with a focus on secure, large-scale, and complex projects • Extensive experience with AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and Redshift. Experience with other cloud providers (e.g., Azure, GCP) is a plus • In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Apache Flink for real-time data processing • Proven experience in mentoring and managing teams, with a focus on developing talent and fostering a collaborative work environment • Strong ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into actionable technical plans • Desirable skills in Scala and Spark to support wider programmes of work • Hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform, both their ‘services’ and ‘how’ to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach • Having worked in sensitive data environments and ideally have experience facing off to cyber security specialists • Understand and apply recognised data modelling patterns and standards.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays • company paid medical insurance • life assurance • pension scheme • annual training allowance • wellbeing allowance • virtual GP • Employee Assistance plan • and more.