Senior Data Architect

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Reference number

466284

Salary

£56,861 \- £66,704
Plus a role specific skills allowance of £1,300 (non\-pensionable and non\-contractual) may be payable.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28\.97%
GBP

Job grade

Grade 7### Contract type

Permanent### Business area

Data Growth and Operations### Type of role

Architecture and Data

Digital

Information Technology### Working pattern

Flexible working, Full\-time, Job share, Part\-time, Compressed hours### Number of jobs available

3
Contents
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• Location


• About the job


• Benefits


• Things you need to know


• Apply and further information

The locations for this role are Newport and Titchfield (Fareham).

This role is aligned to ONS hybrid working principles, which are based on attending the office with purpose. The postholder will be expected to contribute to the organisation’s overall 40% office attendance, in line with business and role requirements.

Due to workforce controls you can only select Manchester / London / Darlington / Edinburgh if you are an existing ONS / UKSA employee contracted to that location. If you are not contracted at one of these sites, these options are not available to you.

Only existing ONS contractual homeworkers can select Homeworking.

Applicants who select a location they are not eligible for will be removed from the recruitment process and will not be considered for alternative locations. Please refer to attachments for further terms and flexibilities.

The induction process for the role will be conducted in person.About the job
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Job summary

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

ONS will be designing, planning, and delivering a mandatory, questionnaire\-based, whole\-population census of England and Wales in 2031\. The data collected helps shape public services, guide policy decisions, and support long\-term planning across government and society

We’re recruiting a Senior Data Architect to join our Data Products, Services and Governance (DPSG) directorate.

Data Products, Services and Governance (DPSG), which sits centrally within ONS, provides a cross\-ONS capability for data, including data access and preparation, and the provision of data and linked data products.

DPSG develops and manages the systems and processes that underpin the distribution of data across ONS and beyond. DPSG provides data to ONS, academia, wider government, and other external users in a safe and controlled way, supporting and encouraging users to maximise data utility, enabling innovation and statistical and research use.

Job description

As a Senior Data Architect, you will be responsible to \- deliver the data models, data journeys, understand/capture the data (and metadata) management including data governance specifications and mechanisms, identify data transformations, ensure data/ technical standardisation, define data volumes and high level non\-functional requirements, define and design the enabling technologies.

Responsibilities

• Work across stakeholders, including business and technical teams to ensure data architecture plays a key role in the design of an end\-to\-end data pipeline.


• Lead on data architecture contributions to support the design and development of a end to end statistical data pipeline.


• Contribute to the design and delivery of our Enterprise Metadata Management programme.


• Participate in cross\-government data architecture communities, to help set direction and share your expertise.


• Champion the work of the DALI division across ONS.


• Contribute to the ongoing implementation of the ONS data strategy (including data principles, policies and standards) and provide advice to stakeholders on how to comply with the strategy.


• Line management of a small team one or two data architects or apprentices, and/or matrix management technical work.


• Play a role in the Data Architecture branch leadership team, particularly supporting the development of technical capabilities of your colleagues.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Communicating between the technical and the non\-technical (Practitioner) \- Listen to and interpret the needs of technical and non\-technical stakeholders, and manage their expectations. Manage active and reactive communication, support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.


• Data Modelling(Practitioner) \- Produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas. Explain which models to use for which purpose. Understand industry\-recognised data modelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them. Compare and align different data models


• Metadata Management (Practitioner) An ability to design a metadata repository/ service, suggest design changes to improve metadata repositories/ service, ensure application of metadata standards, advise less experienced members of the team about metadata management.


• Data Standards (Practitioner) \- Create data standards for different subjects and ensure senior leaders understand them. Work with subject matter experts across the organisation to introduce data standards best practice. Monitor compliance with policies and standards in the organisation. Make recommendations about how the organisation should resolve breaches of standards.


• Communicating Data(Awareness) \- Understand the appropriate media to communicate findings. Shape communications for the audience.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together


• Seeing the Big Picture


• Making Effective Decisions


• Changing and Improving

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Communicating between the technical and non\-technical (Practitioner)


• Data Modelling (Practitioner)

Alongside your salary of £56,861, Office for National Statistics contributes £16,472 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our valued colleagues across the organisation.

Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that our careers site will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.

Inclusion \& Accessibility

At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

ONS are committed to flexible ways of working that support a healthy work\-life balance. ONS has already considered how this job could be right sized for applicants working flexibly and we are happy to explore options with you about working part time, in a job share or flexibly, in line with our hybrid working policies.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.### Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.Security Clearance

For ONS the requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying and the department will consider eligibility by exception on a case\-by\-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.

If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available on Gov.uk on this link or contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss, as failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.

At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:

• Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and secu

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