Data Architect

Job Title: Data ArchitectLocation: West Yorkshire / hybridRate: £TBCDuration: 6 months + extensionsWhat's needed.We're recruiting on behalf of a leading national business to find an experienced Data Architect who can advise and document the standards needed to implement #data as a product# (DAAP).For a data mart to be defined as a product, it needs to have the following characteristicsIt should be discoverableIt should be valuableIt should be self explicableIt should be addressableIt should be interoperableIt should be accessible/performantIt should be secureIt should be trustworthyWe are looking for someone to help us define the technical data architecture and engineering standards needed to make the above statements true for the data products which are built the cloud (GCP, BigQuery, Looker data lake).These standards will includeBiqQuery Layout - naming standards, key consistency, suffix standards, data set layering etcLooker Semantic Layer - user view definitions, dimensions grouping, aggregation definitions, hidden join managementMetaData and Documentation - Looker and BQ field description standardsSchema Design standards - flattened views, deterministic types, order consistency, semantic description, enum constraints etcPartitioning and clustering standardsPolicy TagsStar Schema Design standardsOur client will also need to understand how to implement these standards as code and how they monitor adherence as their data engineering supplier builds the data products.The role requires a thought leader who can help guide both internal stakeholders and help drive the behaviours of 3rd party delivery partners. Someone who's been there and done it in terms of migrating an enterprise organisation to a "data as a product" framework.TPBN1_UKTJ