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Technical Architect – Enterprise Data Platforms

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
2 to 4 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Description

COMPANY

We have disrupted the way people travel since we started 25 years ago, and we don’t intend on stopping. We may be facing the biggest challenge in our history, but we are confident that throughout the pandemic we have taken the right action to build back stronger and better – and we want you to play a part in that and #belongherewithus.

We know that flexibility, balance and wellbeing are more important than ever right now. Whether that’s working remotely, part time, or needing extra support when times are tough – we are always #happytotalkflex.

We’re Europe’s leading airline – with a network of over 1000 routes across 35 countries. We lead the industry in data, digital, web, engineering and operational innovations, to make travel easier and great value for our customer.

We have also been named as Britain’s Most Admired Company of 2020 in the transport sector, retaining the leading position for a second year running. We support. We empower. We excite. And we do it our way. We’re uniquely different. We’re easyJet.

JOB PURPOSE

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 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 ensure they run optimally and remain cost-effective
  • Drive rationalisation of data platforms according to the strategy and enforce simplification and standardisation
  • 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
  • Assist with 2nd & 3rd line platform support where required
  • Provide technical expertise, assurance, and guidance to development teams (both easyJet and 3rd parties) around data acquisitions/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
  • Shape the future of the data domain and aid in landing new “data” capabilities into BAU – considering people, process, and technology
  • Assist with evaluating and selecting new technology; experience with running or supporting vendor RFI and RFP proposals.
  • Support solution architects in the creation of end-to-end design architecture. Accountable for the related technical design and any amendments resulting from Technical Design Assurance (TDA)
  • Good high-level understanding of the end-to-end pipelines, data products/solutions running on the platforms

COMPETENCIES

  • Ownership and Delivery. Has a clear focus to deliver results, working to targets, reviewing progress and adapting their plans accordingly, motivating themselves/the team to achieve.
  • Customer and Shareholder Value. Understands who their customers are and seeks to exceed their needs, focussing on the importance of safety for both customers and employees.
  • Business Performance. Understands business and external environment, is cost-conscious and understands the longer-term perspective and implications of decisions.
  • Innovation and Change. Is open to new ways of doing things and questions existing approaches, views change as an opportunity, comfortable working in a dynamic and ambiguous environment.
  • Building relationships. Have good working relationships with development team, Enterprise architects, business stakeholders and broader IT function.

PERSONAL QUALITIES & BEHAVIOURS REQUIRED

  • Stakeholder management skills at all levels.
  • Proactive in identifying problems and translating these into non-technical descriptions that can be widely understood
  • Operates with high Integrity – can and does deliver what they say they will
  • Confident in presenting to business and IT audiences – “influence others through evidence”
  • Structured, organised, and outcome-oriented
  • “Automation first” mindset when building and deploying solutions; considerations for self-healing and fault-tolerant methods to minimise manual intervention and support activities.
  • 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 team player

Requirements of the Role

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

DESIRABLE

  • Airline/retail experience
  • AWS
  • NoSQL experience – (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, HBASE, CosmosDB)
  • Traditional business intelligence/data warehousing understanding/experience
  • Data Migration experience (e.g. Hadoop to “X”)
  • Provisioning infra-as-code – serverless data pipelines.
  • TOGAF certified.
  • Solution architecture background – thinking beyond the data layer.
  • Experiencing working with containerisation solutions in a data context, e.g. Kubernetes.
  • Tokenisation/anonymisation techniques
  • Change Data Capture techniques
  • Understanding of DevSecOps / MLOps – operating model, tooling and practices

BENEFITS

  • Competitive base salary
  • Up to 20% bonus
  • 25 days holiday
  • BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
  • 7% pension
  • Life Insurance
  • Flexible benefits package
  • Excellent staff travel benefits

We’re Europe’s leading airline flying more than 82 million passengers to more than 33 countries! But we’re not just known for our size and innovation, we’re known around the world for our incredible staff who are at the heart of everything we do.

Aerospace & Defence
Luton
8,000 employees