Healthcare is changing beyond recognition. Accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, a host of technologies including mobile, artifical intelligence and advanced analytics are uniting to transform the way we diagnose, treat and care for people throughout their lives. Our mission is to enable our customers lead longer, healthier and happier lives by becoming one of the worlds most digitised and customer centric healthcare companys. To help us achieve this goal, were expanding our data architecture team to design data solutions and shape our technology roadmaps and standards in the Data domain. As the Lead Data Solutions Architect your role will be to engage across our businesses to translate their business and technology requirements into data solution architecture and designs, and support delivery implementation. You will be responsible for driving best practice, educating technology and business colleagues on data models, technologies and solution designs, and development of Bupas data strategies. How youll help us make health happen: • Develop solution options, architecture, and designs, and the support the selection of data technologies to address business requirements across Bupa. • Act as the subject matter expert on data for projects and programmes, collaborating with other architects to shape the data components underpinning the solution being created. • Contribute to the development of wider enterprise architecture and architecture practice by developing reference architecture, data standards, models, patterns, and governance. • Maintain relevant data architecture and design documentation for one or more products/applications/ domains. • Provide technical leadership and guidance to developers on all aspects of data architecture and standards, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and policies. • Design, document and implement data governance processes and controls for managing data, and data quality approaches solution and opportunities for improvement. • Support and implement the approach for data migration, including data mapping, data migration designs, data migration testing and execution. • Develop and refine enterprise-grade data patterns, blueprints, processes and related enterprise artifacts as required. Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role: • Proven experience as a data architect in a large, complex organisation, ideally within the insurance or healthcare domains. • Expertise in data integration, data management, and data consumption techniques • Solid understanding of operational data stores and various database technologies. • Technically strong, combined with business and commercial acumen. • Excellent ability to elicit and evaluate business and technical requirements as they pertain to data solutions. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organisation. Benefits Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more: • 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell • Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind • An enhanced pension plan and life insurance • Annual performance-based bonus • Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available • Various other benefits and online discounts