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Senior Architect (Data Systems & Data Engineering)

Help us create a better future, quicker

As a Senior Architect within the Data Transformation team, you will lead the Data Engineering & Architecture team in the design of sustainable data engineering

and architectures to meet the needs of the Data Use Cases brought forward within the SPEN

business. Using your Data, system architecture and change management experience, you will collaborate to design and build the SPEN data estate and processes to meet the requirements of the RIIO-ED2, RIIO-T2 & RIIO-3 business plans.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Establish a small technical team across the data systems & operations landscape including:
• Data pipelines and APIs
• Data modelling
• Systems and databases
• Policies and process
• Steer policy development on data modelling and engineering with internal/external stakeholders including external data interfaces.
• Develop DataOps processes to encourage sustainable and scalable data provisioning /storage which encourages value creation, democratisation of data and re-use.
• Collaborate and designing data systems which proactively enable future data analytics and other value-added use cases.
• Work with Data Governance to ensure compliance with policies.
• Work with Business Intelligence, Data Science and other subject matter expert teams to identify data requirements and integration priorities.
• Work with Business Transformation to create platforms suitable for scalable/advanced analytics and to enable new tools for analytics and data science teams.
• Deliver (with Business Transformation) integrated platforms/architectures to enable a
  
  

sustainable and scalable Data Estate and enable reporting, business intelligence and advanced analytics such as Machine Learning.

• Engage with and ensure the implementation of industry best practice in the functional model, skills and capabilities when building the organisational design of the function.
  
  

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Responsibility for a CAPEX budget of circa £10million and an OPEX budget of up to £500,000 per annum.
• Leading a specialist team of data engineers and architects with a team of up to 10 direct and 20 indirect employees (contractors).
• Delivery of technology development initiatives in line with SPEN business plans within CAPEX
  
  

programme.

• Working and leading within industry forum to steer technology strategy within the networks
  
  

operation sector.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong understanding of DataOps and project delivery methodologies (such as Agile).
• Extensive understanding of information systems, and asset data and system architecture.
• Proven capabilities in information and system change delivery in an operational environment.
  
  

To be successful, as a minimum you will have

• Degree qualified in Computer Science, Data or a related discipline.
• Experience leading a team, with strong leadership and people management skills.
• Experience in delivering designs, data modelling, and architecture for data systems.
• Proven track record in developing and delivering information system and data change in a large, multi-disciplined organisation.
• Strong understanding of effective partnership working with third-party organisations.
• Ability to successfully engage with and influence both internal ScottishPower and Iberdrola groups, as well as regulatory bodies and industry working groups (Ofgem, DESNZ, ENA).
• Advanced experience in project management and cost management of capital investments in systems.
• Knowledge and experience with scalable data systems and architectures.
• High-level analytical skills and advanced data/IT abilities.
• High level of business planning, financial, and strategic thinking.
• High-impact influencing and negotiating skills with respect to technical issues and solutions.