Technical Architect - Enterprise Data Platforms

Working in a dynamic environment, the Technical Architect is responsible for the Enterprise Data Platforms covering Data Science, Data Engineering and Data Analytics capabilities. This central role owns the strategic roadmaps for each of the Data Platforms and plays a key role from a governance, standards and best practice perspective.

The Technical Architect works closely with enterprise architects, solution architects, and other cross-functional roles to enable the delivery of platforms that can fulfil the capability needs of the federated business domains.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Understand business requirements and strategy in order to ensure our platform capabilities are fit for purpose.
• Own the core data platform capabilities; this pertains to overall accountability for the platform roadmaps.
• Invested interest in the day-to-day health of the platforms, ensuring they run optimally and remain cost-effective
• Champion the Data Platform technologies across the organisation to address a broad set of use cases and improve adoption.
• Research, test and recommend new emerging technology in a fast-moving market that could be relevant to easyJet - assess it and promote its adoption
• Identify new risks to the business from a platform perspective: apply appropriate risk mitigation actions
• Primary point of contact with the platform software vendors on all technology-related topics – issues – or upgrades
• Provide technical expertise, assurance, and guidance to development teams (both easyJet and 3rd parties) around data acquisitions and data curations onto the platform.
• Prepare and maintain design artefacts for platform designs, including AS-IS, TO-BE and transitional states, guaranteeing they meet the functional and non-functional requirements

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED

• Solid understanding of data concepts
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Strong knowledge of the core Databricks platforms and architecture
• Understanding of cloud-native services (PaaS, SaaS) and how they can compliment the core data platform (e.g. AWS : Airflow, Glue, SageMaker, DMS etc.)
• Strong understanding of data acquisition patterns
• Strong understanding of data serving patterns/access patterns
• Strong understanding of Data Management principles (security and data privacy) and how they can be applied to solutions, e.g. access management, data privacy, handling of sensitive data (e.g. GDPR)
• Understanding of Data Science Tooling for Machine Learning (e.g. MLFlow, Sagemaker)
• Experience with Data Analytics Tooling for dashboarding and visualisation (e.g. Tableau, Looker, Databricks SQLAnalytics, Power BI).
• Understanding of interactive Web Apps for custom Data Analytics (e.g. Dash, Shiny, Flask)
• Understanding the typical SDLC for “productionising” cloud-based data applications
• Understanding of open source big data processing frameworks such as Spark

What you’ll get in return

> Competitive base salary

> Up to 20% bonus

> 25 days Annual Leave

> BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

> 7% pension

> Life Assurance

> Flexible benefits package

> Excellent staff travel benefits

>Work away options

This full-time role will be based in Luton and will be 40 hours per week, hybrid working- 2 days a week

About EasyJet

Ready to make your next move? How about make your mark? Join a team with unstoppable drive and passion at easyJet.

At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate roles, we’ll give you everything you need to make a personal impact on our growing business. We believe in sharing new opportunities, stepping up to challenges and supporting each other with our Orange Spirit.

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