Key Responsibilities
* Lead/support stakeholder interviews and workshops across business and technical teams.
* Assess and document the current data landscape, platforms, systems, integrations and data flows.
* Catalogue databases and data sources, identifying silos, duplication and data quality issues.
* Assess the existing GCP/BigQuery Data Lakehouse, architecture, scalability and integration patterns.
* Evaluate data governance, ownership, metadata, lineage, MDM, security and compliance.
* Develop current-state assessments, architecture diagrams, data inventories and maturity assessments.
* Define the high-level target data architecture, technology stack and governance framework.
* Contribute to data ontology design for AI/analytics use cases and the overall data strategy roadmap.
* Present findings and recommendations to senior client stakeholders and support stakeholder sign-off.
* Use Python and LLMs where appropriate to automate analysis and build data/process tools.
Skills & Experience
* 5+ years in data architecture, data strategy or consulting/advisory.
* Strong GCP / BigQuery and Data Lakehouse experience.
* Strong knowledge of data modelling, ETL/ELT, data integration, migration and architecture.
* Understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage, MDM and data quality.
* Strong analytical skills across systems, data, processes and frameworks.
* Experience building tools/processes using Python and LLMs.
* Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience, ideally at Architect, Analyst or DBA level.
* Telecom or complex enterprise experience highly desirable.
* Experience with wider GCP services, AI/ML data enablement and hybrid cloud migration would be advantageous.
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Salary description
£400.00 - £450.00 per day