Information Architect (Data Modeller) (12 months)

Coventry Building Society have an exciting new role for an Information Architect (Data Modeller), to join the Data team.

While people will always be at the heart of our Society, we also recognise the increasingly powerful role data will play in our future success. So, as we grow, we're continuing to strengthen our capabilities and now have an exciting opportunity for a Data Modeller within our Information Architecture team.

As a Data Modeller you will play a crucial role in designing and managing data structures that support data products and self-service as part of our data as a service methodology. You will work with the Architecture and Data Product teams to design and model data solutions within our Lakehouse data platform.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing and modelling data solutions
• Providing expert knowledge and experience to design data models for the support of long-term strategic solutions
• Designing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models using industry best practice, enforcing alignment to the Society's technical reference architecture.
• Analysing data-related system integration challenges and propose appropriate solutions.
• Recommending opportunities for reuse within existing data models

This a hybrid role based in Coventry, there is a requirement to be onsite once a week - with the flexibility to be present more often for peer collaboration and events.

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Passionate about delivering high quality data products, you'll have knowledge of data products and a good understanding of the drivers of value in the data product area. You'll ideally have experience of JIRA and understand scaled agile ways of working.

To be successful in this role, it's essential that you're able to demonstrate:

• Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Modeling: Ability to design models at all levels of abstraction using data modelling tools
• Normalization & Denormalisation: Understanding of data normalisation rules and when to apply denormalization
• Database Technologies: Strong knowledge of databases technologies
• Strong data related programming skills (SQL, Python, PySpark)
• Data Warehousing: Understanding of data warehouse design principles (star schema, snowflake schema, data vault)
• ETL Processes: Familiarity with ETL tools and data integration techniques
• Metadata Management: Ability to define and manage metadata for data governance.
• Data Governance & Quality: Knowledge of data standards, lineage, and quality frameworks
• You will have either a Data Modelling related qualification and/or Data Development experience in a commercial environment

Desirable skills for this role are:

• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud data services (e.g. AWS Redshift)
• Experience of working in Finance related data development environment

We're one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We're officially recognised as a 'Great Place to Work' and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We're serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you'll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we'll consider alternative working patterns.Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We're proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the

Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.