Chief Data Architect

About Us:

Our team is a multi-disciplinary, global team providing round-the-clock development and operations - including product and project management, community enablement, governance, data architecture, data engineering, data science, and analytics expertise.

We are involved in every aspect of Dyson's global business - from finance to product development, from manufacturing to customer experience - data is receiving record-breaking investments and a mandate for 2021 and beyond, looking to deliver solutions that create substantial and tangible business value.

Data and analytics excellence at Dyson is achieved by a varied and cooperative global community spread across Dyson locations from the UK to Chicago, from Shanghai to Singapore. Domain-specific experts form analytics teams, supported by a central team at the hub. All teams benefit from significant recent investments in cloud technologies and tools, coupled with a broad scope and non-stop ambition and momentum; data and analytics are recognized across the organization, to the highest level, as crucial to all of Dyson's strategic objectives.

As the 'hub' team providing the data, technology and community provision enabling Dyson's global data and analytics capabilities, Global Data Function (GDF) is responsible end-to-end for data from foundations (DQ, MDM) to management (data platforms, integrations), to value realization (analytics enablement and delivery).

About The Role:

This role will require the incumbent to work closely with both internal and external project teams in the Americas, Europe, and South East Asia with the responsibility of advancing the cloud architecture on key business-focused data solutions. They will work closely with Senior Management to develop a multi-cloud platform framework for enterprise-level data analytics.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the business on creating strategic, data-focused solutions.
• Owning the definition of data architecture components for information management solutions to facilitate storage, integration, usage, access, and delivery of data assets to be implemented on the organization’s data environment.
• Creating and approving conceptual, logical and physical architecture diagrams for operational enterprise data and analytics solutions
• Designing conceptual, logical and physical data models using recognized data modeling approaches (e.g. 3NF relational, Kimball dimensional) in standard modeling tools using the ArchiMate modeling language
• Designing the data integration architecture based on solution requirements e.g. real-time, near real-time, batch.
• Supporting, defining, and managing work packages that deliver elements of an information management solution e.g. data warehouse, data mart, ETL service, operational data store

About You:

• Have a good understanding of the GCP, AWS or Azure data landscape
• Strong architecture and data modeling skills
• Good understanding of networking and security concepts
• Resilient and comfortable with high-pace change.
• Deep understanding and knowledge of business and technology trends
• Must be comfortable proactively working with the Data Engineers on GCP or AWS.
• Knowledge on ArchiMate, UML
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills
• Effective change agent
• A visionary with a proven history in strategic planning, individual/team development, and service delivery
• Works collaboratively in bringing both business and technology stakeholders together to deliver technology solutions that enable tangible business benefits

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We understand that great minds don't think alike, and it takes all types of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard for race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other aspect of diversity.