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We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.\nWho are we?\nWe’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.\nLife today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.\nWe have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Standard Life as a Data Architect/Modeller in our IT Transformation team within the Retirement Solutions and Asset Management function.\nAccountable for the delivery of Asset Management's technology strategy through a significant period of transformation and enabling a suitable support model for a mature Asset Management function which is core to the success of the wider Standard Life Group.\nKey responsibilities\nDesigning, building and reverse engineering data models and metadata systems\n\nHelp delivery teams to interpret business needs and transpose these into scalable data models\n\nProvide oversight and advice to other architects and engineers within RS&AM who are undertaking the design and build of data models and technology solutions\n\nSupport engineering teams by communicating your data models in order for efficient delivery within an agile framework\n\nUnderstanding and communication of different types of data models for different purposes to support the delivery of data solutions ranging from master data management systems to reporting data marts\n\nKnowledge of how best to design data platforms to the strengths of market leading technologies such as AWS S3/lambda and Snowflake\n\nDesign data platforms which cater for different business areas, drawing links between problems to reach common solutions.\n\nDesign of semantic models in Snowflake for AI use cases or for use in Power BI solutions\n\nEffective communication with a variety of stakeholders, supporting and hosting discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics.\n\nDemonstrate awareness that data needs to be aligned to the needs of the end user, and production of logical and physical models which align to specific end user needs.\n\nUndertaking data profiling and source system analysis, and present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data.\n\nSupport for and understanding of what data governance is required and where, and taking an active role for the assurance of data solutions with recommendations to ensure compliance.\n\nActive participation in architectural governance forums and working groups and ability to support multiple projects simultaneously through design authorities\n\nSupporting the creation and on-going management of data dictionaries (business/technical)\n\nProviding input and enforcement of the information standards policy. Highlighting deficiencies and improving upon where required\n\nPromoting the availability of data from corporate systems over manual curation. 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