Job summary
The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) is responsible for delivering a compensation scheme that has been long awaited by the infected blood community to provide financial compensation to victims of infected blood on a UK-wide basis.
This role will lead our data platform architecture and modelling team within the Data Operations arm of the IBCA Data Directorate.
The Data Operations team is responsible for developing and running safe and secure data solutions that provide a single source of truth for those going through their compensation journey. They are designing and building a new data platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and data management and intelligence products using Databricks and Quantexa.
We are taking a product-centric approach treating data as a product and are building squads around our products, with a focus on paying compensation to those impacted by the infected blood scandal seamlessly.
You will focus on designing scalable and flexible data solutions for data management processes (including data integration and master data management), ensuring data quality, and driving a culture of problem statement driven design.
Working at IBCA gives you a huge opportunity to make an impact on those who deserve compensation, and this role suits a candidate who can spearhead solutions from the ground up to take from ideation to reality so that data is an enabler to everything IBCA does.
Job description
As the Principal Data Architect for our data platform and products, you’ll be critical to delivering data architecture and modelling capabilities. You will mature the quality of our data architecture practices and should be committed to delivering high-impact, secure data solutions to achieve IBCA’s objectives.
This post is within a data delivery setting, especially one focused on AWS, Quantexa and Databricks.
You will:
set the direction for data architecture and infrastructure and provide technical guidance for the development of designs for the data platform including integration and master data management encompassing secure by design principles
ensure designs are scalable, secure and efficient
lead efforts to integrate data from various sources of varying fidelity, ensuring data consistency, accuracy, and quality, and support the development and maintenance of these processes
be responsible for the design and implementation of logical and physical data models, and the development of data standards and data management policies
be responsible for ensuring we have the right data architecture teams in place across the data platform and its products and will collaborate with data delivery managers and wider digital service delivery teams to make sure data architecture practices are embedded consistently and to industry standard best practices
help the data architecture practices thrive, you will call on your expertise in emerging data management approaches including on data centralisation and apply these to help the organisation deliver success
develop our internal data architecture capability by developing L&D routeways, shaping careers paths and recruiting talent to the organisation
provide leadership and guidance to a team of data architects and modellers, further developing your own data architecture, delivery management and leadership skills
work with business stakeholders and across digital service teams, understanding their needs and translating them into high- and low-level architecture designs
work with industry partners to leverage the best of new and emerging tools and approaches
