Data architect

You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences. You can advocate on behalf of a team and communicate what it does, to create trust and authenticity. You can successfully respond to challenges.

You can use the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling stories that are relevant to business goals and can be acted upon. You can present, communicate and disseminate data effectively, appropriately and with high impact.

You can translate data into valuable insights that inform decisions. You can effectively involve teams in analytics and synthesis to increase consensus and challenge assumptions. You can identify and use the most appropriate analytical techniques, and you have an understanding of analytical tools. You can demonstrate numeracy. You can show an awareness of advances in digital analytics tools and data manipulation products, and can keep up to date with them. You can collect, collate, cleanse, synthesise and interpret data to derive meaningful and actionable insights.

You can understand data governance and how it works in relation to other organisational governance structures. You can participate in or deliver the assurance of a service.

You can recognise and exploit business opportunities to ensure more efficient and effective performance of organisations. You can explore new ways of conducting business and organisational processes.

You can produce data models and understand where to use different types. You can understand different tools and compare different data models. You can reverse engineer a data model from a live system. You can understand industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards.

You can develop and set data standards for an organisation. You can communicate the business benefit of data standards, and champion and govern those standards across the organisation.

You can understand a variety of metadata management tools. You can design and maintain the appropriate metadata repositories to enable the organisation to understand its data assets.

You can log, analyse and manage problems to identify and implement the appropriate solution. You can ensure that the problem is fixed.

You can take an overall perspective on business issues, events and activities, and discuss their wider implications and long-term impact. You can determine patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. You can effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions and activities.

You can work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into data designs. You can create optimal designs through iterative processes, aligning the system requirements and organisational objectives with the user needs.