Local authority serving Northampton and other local towns is seeking to hire a data expert to help connect various teams, as well as work with senior leaders and service managers
West Northamptonshire Council is seeking to hire a data architect to serve as a “vital link” between teams and help make real an ambition “to be the leading local council in digital innovation”.
The authority is advertising an 18-month posting, with a mandate to “design data models to fulfil the strategic data needs of the organisation and support the council’s services”. The role, which offers a salary of between £63,510 and £66,561, also comes with a remit to work with “stakeholders to design and deliver the data-management strategy, ensuring this aligns with WNC policies and data architecture principles”, according to the job advert.
The postholder will “act as the vital link between our business teams to understand what we need to do, our technology teams to drive the right strategic technology decisions for the council and our transformation teams to make that a reality”.
The advert adds: “We want to be the leading local council in digital innovation. To achieve this, we need the right people inputting into the technology roadmap, ensuring the technology strategy is aligned to the business strategy.”
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The chosen candidate will be expected to work with senior managers and heads of service as “the lead consultant for data architecture”.
“You need to get under the skin of their service provision and ensure that the data architecture is aligned to their service goals and needs,” the advert says,
The lead data architect will also work with other technical experts – including enterprise and solution architects, and information government professionals – with the aim of ensuring “seamless working practices and collaboration”. The new recruit will also be expected to “mentor and develop junior architects in the team”
West Northamptonshire is keen hear from applicants with experience of “implementing data standards, data governance, data principles and policies into another government organisation”.
The advert adds: “You will be [helping] to deliver a vast portfolio of work supporting key strategic projects in parallel to fixing data foundations as well as translating the organisations data strategy into designs, working closely with various business areas, understanding their data needs and future integration.”
The role is open for applications for an unspecified period of time.
West Northamptonshire Council was established in 2021 as a unitary authority, serving a local population of more than 400,000 residents. The new body replaced previous district and borough councils serving the areas of Daventry, South Northamptonshire, and Northampton – the town where the single-tier entity is now headquartered. WNC also took on duties formerly fulfilled by the now-defunct Northamptonshire County Council.
