The Architecture & Solution Design Chapter has ownership of our current and target Architecture, ensuring we are maximising the use of existing platforms and ensuring our architecture is fit for purpose now and in the future. This includes governance of our Architecture & Designs within the DARTH Forum and Architecture Guild including the 4 corners of Architecture: Technical, Business, Software and Data.
As a Technical Architect, you will lead the formulation of our technology and data strategy, and target architecture, aligned to the Tesco Mobile business strategy, to deliver a forward thinking architecture that is fit for our future. This role has a wide technical footprint from day-to-day data architecture support for the existing on-prem data warehouse through to helping optimise cloud based real-time data pipelines and visualisations as part of our data modernisation aspirations.
Who we are
Tesco Mobile is a totally unique business, a 50/50 joint venture between VMO2 and Tesco that launched back in 2003 and has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services, markets and customer propositions.
Tesco Mobile has more than 5 million customers and is award-winning, instilling agile methodologies and cultivating a fantastic can-do attitude across it’s teams. We’re always on the lookout for the best talent, be that from our two shareholders or the wider industry.
Working at Tesco Mobile means being employed by one of our joint venture shareholders – Virgin Media O2 or Tesco Mobile, our Head Office vacancies are advertised under both brands. Our culture is uniquely Tesco Mobile with a great sense of community, but with all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders as well. We pride ourselves on being a company where everyone’s welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. We not only celebrate diversity but recognise the value and opportunity it brings in helping us to care for human connection – we are supermarket mobile!
The must haves
In order to be considered, you must have the following experience;
A subject matter expert in your field and have experience of developing and implementing methods and standards in IT / Data Architecture
Proven track record of successful project deliveries and transformational programmes
Broad data architecture knowledge based on practical experience gained working in a systems development environment
Experience working on high profile, large scale applications both on-prem and in the cloud
The other stuff we are looking for
We’d also love you to bring;
Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence experience
Logical Data Modelling leading into physical database design
On-boarding of large databases e.g. vendor selection, enterprise storage sizing and planning
Experience with Master database management tools