NewDay

Your new role At NewDay

This position needs someone with energy and passion to complement our existing development team, to contribute to our existing projects as well as work on strategic new projects. In this role you must have a desire to deliver high quality output within challenging timeline. The ability to hit the deck running and make valuable contributions quickly will be critical.

0-12 months you’ll deliver

• As a Lead Solution Data Modeler, you'll be an integral member of the Data Platforms Architecture Team and will be responsible for the design and implementation of the enterprise data strategy, ensuring the strategy supports the current and future business needs.

• The role will involve collaborating with Business and enterprise solution architects and contribute towards the overall program architecture and end to end solution.

What you’ll bring

• Work closely with key business partners to understand and document the flow of data within our business
• Create and owning a roadmap for the implementation of your data strategy
• Attend and contribute to the technical design authority, reviewing and approving changes to our architecture where appropriate
• Hold workshops with key business users to gain an understanding of current and future reporting requirements
• Oversee the translation of business strategy into technical design documents
• Build data models and process flow diagrams
• Create stories in the backlog for the engineering & development teams
• Create data mapping and definition documentation down to attribute level
• Work with Project Coordinator to plan project estimation and project roadmap
• Take ownership of design activities and ensure the product developed meets the design specifications.
• Work as a gatekeeper before the product is released to the Data Quality Community.
• Present designs and data architecture artifacts to NewDay’s internal and external customers

We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:

• Good understanding of Cloud-native data architectures in AWS or Azure.
• Requirements gathering experience in an agile data environment
• Experience of documenting requirements using agile tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience of querying data, data analysis and data profiling using SQL in standard database applications (e.g. Redshift AWS, SQL Server)
• Extensive logical and physical data modelling in traditional database technologies
• Experience of systems design techniques from redefining requirements to high level design and detailed design stage in both waterfall and agile development models
• Experience of standard Data Modelling toolsets such as ERStudio or Erwin
• Experience of relational database technologies (MS SQL Server, Redshift)
• Experience of handling different file formats specially JSON and XML
• Data Modelling using Data Vault 2.0
• Able to work on multiple projects at the same time and prioritise the work as per business needs to ensure tactical and strategic goals of data platforms are delivered to business on agreed timescales

And would love you to know or learn:

• Experience in a financial services specially Credit Cards or regulated industry
• Working on cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Snowflake)
• Experience on Stream Data processing and tools like Confluent Kafka
• Experience of design to handle similar data from various sources
• Design experience on Data Vault, Data Lake and Mart technologies in Cloud
• Experience using advanced SQL functions and query performance tuning
• Experience of design within a data science environment (AWS S3/ Jupyter notebooks)
• Experience of ETL technologies (e.g. AWS Glue, Informatica)
• Experience of Data Catalogue tools (e.g. Collibra, Informatica)
• Working experience on data analysis/discovery languages like R, Python
• Educated to degree level, or higher

About NewDay

We help people move forward with credit,
and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.

We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.

Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

Our dynamic NewDay culture

We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.

Where next?

We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive

In the NewDay Tech team, you’ll join an Expert or Leader career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.

Let’s talk about this role – contact talent@newday.co.uk

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