Job details

Excellent academic record including a minimum 2:1 degree in a technical/numerate discipline from a good university

Demonstrable expertise in a relevant consulting or technology area, strong client-facing skills and evidence of continued career progression.

You will have a successful track record as a data warehouse architect involved in creation and ownership of a diverse range of solutions from early concepts and feasibility through to validation, delivery and optimisation.

Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Management Information/Analytics solutions plus exposure to and understanding of various business problems including eCommerce, Content Management, Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management, Mobile Data and Enterprise Application Integration.

Able to differentiate between established/proven technology and pioneering/immature technology.

Familiar with architectural design patterns (such as client server, distributed databases, operational data stores, meta data management, data marting, analytical warehouse, data warehouses) and with adhering to design principles and reference or strategic architectures.

 Comfortable in influencing client decisions regarding technology.

Good working knowledge of open/industry standards and methodologies including UML, RUP and Data Modelling and be able to articulate solutions in full using a number of different architectural views (functional and use case, static or component based, dynamic or interaction based, deployment or physical based etc) working autonomously or as part of a team.

Excellent understanding of how application, data, infrastructure and network design combine to achieve high performance, availability, resilience and scalability of solutions

comfortable in critiquing existing services or designs to identify weak points or refactoring opportunities and ensure completeness.

Ability to identify and control both technical and project/commercial risks and facilitate issue resolution, liaising with the Project or Delivery Managers within Detica or client organisations as appropriate..

• Shaping, justifying and communicating innovative solutions and providing strong architectural/high level designs to develop a workable solution.
• Estimation of low level design, development and total ownership costs
• Bid preparation: definition of the technical solution and estimates.
• Involvement in the recruitment and coaching/mentoring of technical staff
• Supporting and/or leading proposal and proposition development
• Management of project and programme activities and technical teams
• Management of supplier organisations and technology partners
• Defining performance metrics for operational sign off
• Establishing configuration management control
• Production of relational and/or dimensional data models.
• Hands-on design and direction of the solution.
• Responding to client requests, anticipating problems and meeting client needs using innovative approaches.
• Leading and working within a multi-disciplined team including client design / development teams and technology partners.
• Full development life cycle involvement.
• Sharing knowledge and assisting team members.
• Contributing to improve development approaches and quality of deliverables.
• Progress reporting and highlighting issues before they become a problem.

• Extensive experience of one or more relational databases such as Oracle, IBM UDB, NCR Teradata, Netezza, DATAllegro, Informix, SQL Server and of analytical data stores such as SAS, Sand Technology and Alterian.
• Extensive experience of Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)/Data Management/Data Quality Management tools such as Informatica, PowerCenter, Ascential Data Stage, Ab Initio, Business Objects Data Integrator, Oracle Warehouse Builder, Trillium, DataFlux and SAS ETL Studio.
• Query and reporting tools, such as Business Objects / Crystal reports, Microsoft Reporting Services, SAS.
• Multi-dimensional analysis tools such as Hyperion Essbase, Microsoft Analysis Services, Oracle OLAP, SAS OLAP, Microstrategy and Cognos.
• Experience of visualisation/specialist analytical tools & technologies would be an advantage.
• Experience of complementary technology areas such as Java/J2EE, EAI and .NET (and associated concepts including Object-Oriented and Service-Oriented design) an advantage.
• Excellent commercial/pragmatic abilities in order to understand and interpret clients' requirements and address constraints of time, cost and quality.
• Bid preparation and sales support experience - definition of the technical solution including conceptualisation, estimation and risk assessment. Use of different views and specification techniques. Very strong hands-on design and direction of the solution.
• The ability to establish and maintain relationships with client stakeholders and to work across different projects or clients. 
• A strong element of creativity to shape innovative solutions combined with strong architectural design experience in order to develop a workable solution.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills in order to be able to communicate technical solutions in non-technical terms with senior client stakeholders, drive selection and agreement of options, align business and technical teams and motivate delivery teams.
• Excellent written skills to imbue solution documentation with clarity and focus as well as detail.
• Good team management skills.
• A high degree of personal motivation and resilience to overcome setbacks with the ability to work in consistently high pressure environments.
• The ability to speak confidently on technical subjects with limited preparation commanding respect and authority and to liaise with clients on difficult or sensitive topics.
• Full development life cycle experience.
• Demonstrable knowledge of a software development methodology and structured approaches to development.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• To apply for this role you must be a British citizen (you can hold another nationality) and must have or be able to obtain Security Clearance.  For this process you will have to be able to prove your residency for the last 5 years.

Salary & Benefits

Competitive Basic Salary

Benefits

·          Discretionary bonus scheme

·          Access to Group Personal Pension scheme

·          Access to the BAE Systems Share incentive Plan

·          Private medical insurance covering yourself   

·          Travel insurance / Personal accident

·          25 days annual leave

·          Life assurance

·          Income protection

·          Interest free season ticket loan

 

In addition, extra benefits outlined below can be purchased using your flexible benefits allowance:

·          Pension scheme

·          Additional private medical insurance

·          Additional income protection

·          Additional life assurance

·          Life assurance for your spouse/partner

·          Critical illness insurance

·          Ability to select/exchange holiday

·          Childcare vouchers

·          Charitable giving

·          Bikes to work

·          Health assessments

·          Dental insurance

·          Employee discount scheme