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Job Description
Job Description
A Data Integration Engineer provides infrastructure, data integration & data visualisation cloud and on-prem solutions for all Experian BUs. They are responsible for the location, quality, performance, timeliness and all other functional requirements to ensure the right data is in the right place at the right time at the lowest cost.
Summary
- Projects - As part of Agile project teams, support the entire project lifecycle for new Data integration and data visualisation solutions:
- Working with the BU, define & design the technical solution to meet the business and technology need in terms of SLA for functional & non-functional requirements
- Confirm the design meets the Architectural, Data & Security standards
- Deliver the data integration aspects of the project including data replication, data validation, data latency, data refresh frequency
- Deliver the data visualisation infrastructure & application setup & operation
- Deliver both on-prem and cloud hosted solutions
- Service
- Provide services & support for all integration & visualisation data platforms to meet the business functional & non-functional requirements in a 24/7 operation
- Manage the SNOW ITSM queues (Incident, problem, change etc) to exceed all SLAs
- Deliver ongoing Service Improvement Plans for all data platforms to support increasing platform usage and data volumes
- Governance
- Ensure all data platforms meet data & security standards & policies
- Ensure all Vulnerabilities are managed to SLA and Archer records raised for any non-compliance
- Ensure all data platforms have an agreed and published roadmap to meet the TLMP
- Partnerships
- Manage BU stake holders and form trusted valued partnerships to form a strategic view for all data integration & visualisation solutions.
- Manage all escalations & prevent unnecessary Exec level involvement
- Manage Third party vendors ensuring value & measurable outcomes from all engagements.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce detailed technical designs approved by the architecture & security boards for all new BU solutions
- Provide advice on technical aspects of infrastructure deployment and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensure that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
- Ensure all data integration & visualisation designs are consistent in driving improvements in implementation / performance and maintainability
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific specialisms, and provides expert advice regarding their application, in relation to data integration and data visualisation
- Supervise specialist external consultancy. The specialism can be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, product or application area.
- Responsible for dissemination of technical information relating to their specific specialism, to ensure a high degree of multi aspect technical capability in the team
- Adhere to all regulatory requirements within area of responsibility and escalate issues quickly.
- Pro-actively identify risks and take steps to mitigate these.
- Ensure team members understand the importance of adhering to their regulatory obligations and responsibility for implementation of company policies and procedures.
- Ensure team members understand the operating model and the functional and individual responsibilities
- Maintain awareness of opportunities provided by new technology to address challenges or to enable new ways of working.
- Within own sphere of influence, works to further organisational goals, by the study and use of emerging technologies and products.
- Contribute to briefings and presentations about their relevance and potential value to the organisation.
- Specify and design large or complex systems. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensures they are applied effectively.
- Review others’ system and infrastructure designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology.
- Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks.
- Ensure that the system design balances functional, service quality, security and systems management requirements.
- Understand and participate in continual performance review; ensuring stretching personal objectives, a personal development plan and regular self and team feedback.
- Comply with the Training and Competency requirements and complete required training in a timely manner.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Minimum 3 Years experience with data infrastructure components & platforms e.g. AWS Data services including Data Migration Services, RDS/Postgres, Scripting/Terraform, Programming/Python, Linux, Windows, Cloud Services
- Minimum 1 Years experience with database services including SQL, Replication, on-prem & cloud hosted Databases
- Minimum 1 years experience of Tableau or similar products.
- Familiar with web architectures, APIs, cloud infrastructure, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc. and DBMS architectures, as required
- Familiar with architecture tools & utilities, e.g. MS office Suite, MS Visio, PowerPoint
- Familiar with Experian products/applications - Non-functional capabilities / requirements
- Familiar with Compliance & Security - Security related Architecture
- Good at building relationships within department and across division
- Good technical and non-technical communication skills, written & oral, internal / external, formal & informal
Additional Information
- Cloud or On-prem data integration & visualisation accreditation
- Industry or vendor specific certification is desirable.
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