Data Architect

Job summary

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) exists to help improve the quality, sustainability and productivity of health and social care in England. We have an international reputation for our approach to producing guidance and information on effective practice that supports better decisions and helps the health and care system to prioritise its investment. We are one of the world leaders in the work that we do!

To achieve NICE's strategic transformation ambitions and to continue to support our essential live services, it is crucial that NICE's data assets are managed appropriately and that the processes for developing, maintaining, and publishing guidance can rely on consistent, accurate well-structured data.

This role will be at the heart of ensuring NICE takes an enterprise view of its data assets, that NICE can clearly understand, manage, and use these data assets effectively in line with its strategic ambitions. The role will support the AD - Data Management and Information Architecture, and the rest of the Data Management and Information Architecture team in building data management capabilities at NICE, focusing on business intelligence, data integration and data warehousing to provide good quality data for decision making to all NICE staff.

Main duties of the job

As a Data Architect, you will:

o Be responsible for designing and developing NICE data architecture blueprint in support of NICE business objectives.

o Be responsible for enterprise data model development for master, operational and analytical data.

o Contribute to the definition of the organisation's data strategy and data roadmap to ensure delivery against the business objectives.

o Play a key role in the data governance function at NICE to ensure that data is aligned to NICE business strategy.

o Establish implementation patterns and standards for recording, processing, and sharing data across the systems at NICE in accordance with the agreed data principles and policies.

o Work proactively to ensure the organisation designs technology architecture that considers data, especially master data and data quality.

o Provide advice to agile multidisciplinary delivery teams and oversee the implementation and adherence to data architecture over the full product or service lifecycle.

o Ensure best practice standards and principles are followed for the assessment and development of data models.

About us

You will be joining a growing team of data architects and information architects responsible for NICE data and information architecture and providing data warehousing and business intelligence services.

We offer a range of benefits including:

NHS pension scheme which is one of the most generous in the UK.We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance including work from home, compressed hours and flexi start/finish times.

Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants and more.

Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays

Access to modern offices with showers, bike storage facilities and refreshments such as tea and coffee.

Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Eco-NICE, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.

If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.