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UKI TC - Data Architect - Senior Manager/Director

EY

EY

IT
Dublin, Ireland
Posted on Jul 16, 2024

General information

  • Location: Dublin
  • Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: Yes
  • Business area: Technology Consulting (Data Engineering Services)
  • Contract type: Permanent


At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.


EY has a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of experiences significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

The team and the opportunity

This is a rapidly growing area, so you will have plenty of opportunity to spread your wings and develop your skill set to keep up with the ever-growing demands of the digital landscape. Our Data Services Group team helps apply cutting edge technology and techniques to bring solutions to our clients. As part of that, you'll sit side-by-side with clients and diverse teams from EY and we'll look to you to provide our clients with a unique business perspective on how they must continue to innovate and remain competitive in this ever-changing industry. We are seeking individuals with significant client-side and people management experience, who have gained project and technology delivery experience within large recognised organisations.

By joining the Technology Consulting team, you will be helping our clients solve a wide range of challenges - from the requirement to respond to the ever-changing demands of the market, to overseeing large and complex technical transformation projects/programmes that truly transform our clients ways of working, As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.

Your key responsibilities

  • Support our clients in defining and implementing a data journey aligned with their strategic objectives
  • Create solution designs and estimates for complexity, effort and costs
  • Participate in presentations and proposals for medium and highly complex projects
  • Create high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource for Data architecture, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems
  • Design, develop and implement data strategy, data collection, transformation, data integration and data analytics solutions
  • Providing expertise and support across the enterprise information framework, including data intake, data transformation, data quality, metadata and master data management, data virtualisation, data governance, data lineage, data services, data security and data lakes
  • Lead technology consulting engagements, solution workshops and due diligence
  • Work closely with Solution Architects to help domains with data modelling understand the fundamental concepts of master systems of record
  • As a senior team member, shape and manage engagement teams as required
  • Drive business development through the winning of new clients

Skills and attributes for success


To qualify for the role, you must have:

  • Proven experience as a Data Architect, Solutions Architect, or similar role in a consulting environment
  • Comprehensive experience in developing and maintaining enterprise data models for analytics using dimensional, star, snowflake or data vault methodologies
  • Proficient in implementing and maintaining Master and Reference Data Management to ensure data accuracy and integrity across the organisation
  • Comprehensive expertise in programming languages and tools for data preparation, analysis and reporting
  • At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership
  • Excellent understanding of:
    • Data wrangling and standard data cleansing, in different formats, including CSVs and structured tables.
    • Microsoft BI toolset, including O365 tools and Power Platform (Powerapps/Powerautomate/PowerBI)
    • Azure cloud ETL toolset, including Azure SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Datalake.
    • Cloud infrastructure including Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure, Identity & Access Management, data stores connections, cloud functions concepts.
  • Familiar with Big Data infrastructures, including file-based and in-memory big data platforms.
  • Excellent understanding of cloud architectures, including data , security, platforms as a service, data privacy models.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal including ability to convey designs and solutions to both technical and business audiences
  • Strong adherence to data governance policies including security, architecture, data quality and data retention
  • Proven experience in managing the data lifecycle from various data sources to delivering reports and visualisation to end-users
  • Experience in working in Agile development environments

Ideally, you will also have:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management, or related field
  • Participation in the opensource community
  • Exposure to automation or digital transformation
  • Expert level certification in MS Azure, AWS Cloud or Google Cloud, data engineering or similar track

What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

  • Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
  • Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
  • The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

  • Pension
  • Maternity & Paternity leave
  • Discounted health insurance
  • Bike to work Scheme
  • Web Doctor - Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family
  • Recognition Awards
  • The purchase of additional annual leave
  • Cash incentives for referrals
  • Hybrid Working
  • Work Mobile
  • Free Gym membership
  • TECH MBA paid by EY
  • Travel Pass
  • Wellness rooms Available in some offices

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.


Career Progression

  • When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one.
  • Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
  • As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
  • Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
  • Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
  • We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees.

About EY
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Inclusion & Diversity
We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world. That’s Why, EY.


Apply now.

The roleholder must understand and strictly comply with workplace policies and procedures including all EY Global and Information Security policies to protect organisational data and prevent unauthorized access.

IMPORTANT: Where Agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / Profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / Profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.