Data Solution Architect

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Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?

Essential Experience And Capabilities

• Highly capable, hands-on, Data Analytics leader.
• A superb technologist, with a strategic focus, while still being an effective Architect practitioner.
• Can lead estimation and planning activities and ensure that the team and client delivers to them.
• Experience of leading a technical engagement or solution, making all the significant decisions that affect technology choices and approach.
• Capable of providing technical thought leadership and guidance to clients.
• Experienced at leading data analytic activities and helping organisations adopt appropriate technologies and techniques successfully.
• Leads standard-setting and architecture. Ensures successful evolution and adherence to these within project.
• Able to devise and cost viable, winning engagements for sales proposals.
• A highly credible and public facing thought leader, who can provide advice and guidance to clients. Actively develops and manages relationships with clients and 3rd party suppliers.
• Excellent understanding of data analytics technology deployment and operation as well as functionality.
• Excellent communicator, able to explain, persuade and justify decisions and concepts to people at all levels.
• Detailed understanding of data tools, techniques, methodologies and best practice.
• Excellence in three or more architectures and/or technologies having successfully applied them in a commercial environment.
• Breadth of knowledge across the Kainos areas of operation.
• Competent in security, performance tuning, capacity planning, resilience and availability across heterogeneous architectures.
• Ability to motivate and inspire technical staff, inside and outside Kainos.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Ability to balance project demands with those of the wider organisation.
• Strong ability to make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of technical and commercial demands.
• Complies, and ensures team members comply, with all confidentiality and non-disclosure policies and/or agreements and ensures security of information at all times.
  

Desirable Experience And Capabilities

• Proven ability to develop and manage a technology consulting practice.
• Ability to evangelise and drive data initiatives in organisations.
• Strong skills in the latest technologies.
• Well-known in the industry and participates in community activity, for example, publishing papers, speaking at conferences or contributing to open source projects.
• Experience of consultancy led business development.
• Has spent significant time working away from home base and/or on a client site.
  

Personal Attributes

• Constructive, professional, credible and can communicate effectively with clients, partners and colleagues.
• Excellent at managing personal time and priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills and partner management.
• Creative, articulate, enthusiastic, responsible, logical, and thorough.
• A good team player capable of delivering results in less than perfect circumstances.
• Pragmatic, tolerant of ambiguity, willing to backtrack and seek multiple solutions.
• Capable of working at an abstract level.
• Mature, non-confrontational style.
• Quality focused.
• An effective mentor and teacher.
• Highly flexible (including willingness to work away from home base).
• Visionary and entrepreneurial, with a positive "can do" attitude towards addressing the technical challenges facing Kainos and clients.
  

Who You Are

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren’t abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honestwhen dealing with others; respectfulof how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.