About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…
We are looking for a highly experienced Data Architect to design and implement cutting-edge cloud data solutions for our customer. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS Data Tools, SQLMesh, Terraform, Snowflake and Tableau, alongside a proven ability to design scalable data infrastructures that support advanced analytics and reporting. You will provide technical leadership, guide the engineering team and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure data strategies align with long-term business objectives. Strong skills in data security, Agile methodologies, and translating complex technical concepts into business language are essential for success in this role.
Please note the successful candidate is expected to work from our customer's office in Warrington from time to time.
Required skills:
- Experience in designing and implementing leading edge on premise and in Cloud data solutions
- Experience working closely with the client and the delivery team to develop strategies and roadmaps that deliver client needs and requirements
- Designing architecture solutions that are in line with long-term business objectives
- Experience around data security
- Excellent knowledge of AWS Data Tools, SQLMesh, Terraform, Snowflake and Tableau
- Designing a data infrastructure that supports complex data analytics, reporting and visualisation services
- Providing technical leadership and direction to the engineering teams
- Building effective relationships with senior technical staff so that there is a common understanding of goals and challenges
- Meeting with clients or executive team members to engage in architectural and requirement analysis discussions
- Creating documentation and diagrams that show key data entities and creating an inventory of the data needed to implement solutions
- Helping to maintain the integrity and security of data assets
- Relevant 3rd level qualification with a strong technical focus
- Excellent knowledge and proven experience of working with IT Software Development Lifecycle methodologies with particular focus on Agile as the de facto methodology
- Experience working with Agile teams
- Experience in working with third party suppliers in the delivery of business or IT change initiatives – including experience of working with remote and co-located teams and vendors Experience leading projects based on legacy technologies in an organisation
- A strong understanding of best practices, tools and techniques for delivery management with ability to continuously improve these processes in an agile delivery organisation
- Ability to translate technical to business speak and sometimes vice versa
Key responsibilities & duties include:
- Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
- Identifying, designing and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimising data delivery and automating manual processes
- Translating business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases and data warehouses
- Defining the data architecture framework, standards and principles, including modelling, metadata, security, reference data and master data
- Defining reference architecture, which is a pattern others can follow to create and improve data systems
- Defining data flows, i.e., which parts of the organisation generate data, which require data to function, how data flows are managed and how data changes in transition
- Collaborating and coordinating with multiple departments, stakeholders, partners and external vendors
Desirable Skills:
- Experience in large enterprise data warehouse
- Ability to build and optimise data sets, ‘big data’ pipelines and architectures
- Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement and answer questions
- Excellent analytic skills associated with working on unstructured datasets
- Ability to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata
- Knowledge of ODBC and Java
- Experience with Data warehousing, Cubes and emerging EPP/MPP data designs
- Experience with Snowflake and AWS Data system preferable
- AWS Cloud Practitioner, Big Data Specialist, Tableau Professional or other similar certifications desired
- Act as an influencer to help the existing team grow into modern modelling and reporting methodologies
- Data Security
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive rates based on experience
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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]
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What We Do
We help mature organisations evolve into modern digital businesses with faster time to market, increased operational stability and security.
We offer a suite of technical services delivered by an experienced team of subject matter experts. Our services can be provided as a fully managed service or as an embedded part of your team. We focus on both short-term and long-term goals that emphasise business outcomes for our customers.
Why choose Amach:
1. Business Agility - We focus on removing your IT debt, so that your company can focus on delivering business value to your customers at pace in a secure and reliable manner.
2. Cost Reduction - We help reduce your IT costs across all domains. This includes operational costs in both cloud and your data centres, licencing, evergreening, and reducing project delivery timelines.
3. Operational Stability - We will modernise your IT systems ensuring operational stability and resilience, to ensure the end user experience for both customers and staff are enhanced.
4. Enable Innovation - By removing IT debt, we create space for your team to focus on innovation, ensuring business longevity and futureproofing. We bring both sector experience and lessons learned.
5. Security - We address the overall architecture to ensure security by convention vs configuration. We promote DevSecOps practices, so security isn’t seen to prevent teams from delivery in an efficient manner.
6. Improve Employee Experience - We create and implement your EUX strategy that adapts to a changing world, while improving security and user efficiency - resulting in improved colleague satisfaction and retention.
7. Sustainability - Achieve your sustainability goals through optimising your overall IT footprint and reducing costs.
We thrive on delivering customer value in every interaction.
If you are interested in hearing more or to see how we could help you, please get in touch [email protected]
