Data Architect

The Role

As a Data Architect at Flooid, you will support customer projects by translating business and solution requirements into practical data designs, database changes and implementation approaches for our retail technology platform.

Working as part of customer project and engineering teams, you will collaborate with project managers, solution specialists, engineers and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, shape solutions and deliver agreed technical outcomes. You will provide data-related expertise throughout design, build, testing, deployment and early-life support, using established standards and patterns.

The role contributes across the customer project lifecycle, including discovery, estimation, solution design, implementation, testing, deployment and resolution of delivery issues.

This role combines customer-focused project delivery, database design, technical analysis and problem solving in a collaborative engineering environment.

The Responsibilities

As a member of the Data Management Team, you will deliver data-related work for customer projects and support agreed team priorities, including:

Customer Solution Design

• Work with customer and internal stakeholders to clarify business, integration and data requirements for assigned projects.
• Translate agreed requirements into practical database, interface and data-processing designs using established Flooid patterns.
• Identify design dependencies, constraints and delivery risks, and raise them with the project team.
• Produce clear solution documentation that supports build, testing, deployment and ongoing support.

Customer Project Delivery

• Deliver assigned data and database work packages to agreed scope, quality and project timelines.
• Provide technical input during project discovery, planning, estimation and design reviews.
• Support configuration, development, testing, deployment and handover activities for customer solutions.
• Investigate and resolve project issues, communicate progress clearly and escalate risks or blockers promptly.

Project and Technical Collaboration

• Work closely with project managers, business analysts, solution specialists, engineers and testers to coordinate delivery.
• Explain technical options, assumptions and impacts clearly to technical and non-technical project stakeholders.
• Contribute evidence-based estimates, status updates and delivery information for assigned work.
• Work with engineers and technical leads to implement agreed customer solutions using appropriate data technologies.

Data Performance and Optimization

• Support assigned database changes intended to improve performance or reliability.
• Assist with investigation of database performance issues.
• Suggest improvements to data processing efficiency within assigned areas.

Data Quality and Standards

• Update database schemas, data definitions and documentation for assigned work as directed.
• Follow agreed data standards and design guidance.
• Support quality and maintainability of assigned data deliverables.

Platform Development

• Support minor improvements to database tooling and automation within agreed team priorities.
• Review and provide feedback on specific technologies when requested.
• Assist with limited improvements to data-related processes and tools.

Technical Knowledge

• Apply technical knowledge of SQL, XML/XSD, relational databases and data modeling.
• Share practical knowledge with colleagues within day-to-day work.
• Assist with problem-solving for assigned data-related issues.

Requirements

• Experience delivering technical work within customer implementation or software delivery projects.
• Experience working with relational database platforms such as DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Good hands-on experience in SQL and PL/SQL.
• Experience working with XML and XSD technologies.
• Experience interpreting documented customer requirements and contributing to technical solution design.
• Experience supporting project testing, deployment, issue resolution or production handover.
• Experience contributing to database development, integration or configuration tasks within software delivery environments.
• Ability to organize assigned work, meet project commitments and communicate risks or blockers early.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly to customers, colleagues and project stakeholders.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience with XSLT and related XML transformation approaches.
• Awareness of software development practices, including collaborative working and maintainable code.
• Experience working within Java-based application environments.
• Exposure to retail or commerce technology environments.

About You

You enjoy applying technical knowledge to real customer challenges and contributing to successful project delivery.

You are comfortable working with detailed technical information and working with documented solution requirements. You collaborate well with others and support assigned tasks that contribute to practical, high-quality technical outputs.

You will demonstrate:

• Good analytical and problem-solving capability.

• The ability to communicate technical information clearly.

• Good collaboration skills.

• A focus on delivering practical technical solutions.

• Maintain and develop relevant technical knowledge.

• Understand how assigned work supports customer needs.

Benefits

At Flooid you will find a fun, professional and supportive environment where people genuinely care about the work they do and the customers they serve.

We value contribution over job titles, encourage openness and collaboration, move quickly, and believe in rolling up our sleeves to get great things done.

Location: Hybrid. UK based. You should be able to work from the Birmingham office weekly.

Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday.

Salary: Up to £80,000 dependant on experience

• Flexible working - To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi-working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events.
• Holidays - We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around 25-30 days holiday plus public bank holidays per year.
• A flexible pension - We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner
• Company sick pay - We offer peace of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy
• Family benefits - We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme - An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero-emission electric vehicle
• Online learning platform -We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e-learning courses.
• Financial, physical and wellbeing support - To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme
• Access to a discount platform - Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations
• Professional subscriptions - We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it’s required to perform your job role
• Charity giving - support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll, saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay
• Cycle to work scheme - Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work
• Rewarding long service - We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team

If you believe you have the skills and experience to carry out this role, although feel you do not meet 100% of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway! Research suggests that certain groups of the population will apply for a role if they meet 60% of a roles requirements, while others will only apply if they hit 100% - we encourage applications from anyone with the skills, experience and attributes that will make you a great addition to both the role they are applying and the company overall.

Flooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.