Company Description

Informa PLC is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.

Our purpose is to champion the specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions. Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Informa Markets creates global platforms for industries, specialist markets and customers to trade, innovate and grow, delivering over 550 events annually, specialist digital content and actionable data solutions.

Job Description

Informa Markets is on a transformation journey and opportunities for Informa Markets to achieve its objectives at a large scale and within a complex landscape of businesses and fragmented technology estate requires a highly effective, delivery focused enterprise architecture practice.  This role will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing innovative data management solutions and automation systems that support our organization's goals. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, provide technical leadership, and ensure the scalability, performance, and security of our systems.

What you’ll be doing:

The is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:

• Act as bridge between Architecture and delivery teams by creating HLD and LLD as well as contributing to architecture governance by proactively discovering architecture pitfalls.
• Design and implement robust architecture for managing large-scale data and automating complex processes.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineering teams on best practices in data management, integration and automation.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies and software engineering tools into existing systems and data landscape.
• Lead the design and implementation of data warehousing, ETL processes, and data analytics platforms.
• Perform assessments and detailed analysis to build POCs and Minimum Viable products using cloud services/capabilities for messaging and serverless workflow orchestration.
• Evaluate and assess out of the box cloud services categorically event driven, messaging and API capabilities that can be leveraged for Enterprise integration Architecture
• Creating quality Artefacts demonstrating critical architecture domains for technical as well as non-technical audience
• Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in data architecture and automation technologies.

Qualifications

Hands-on experience on architecting modern data and integration solutions to help real-time data exchange and automation.

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect, Data Architect, or similar role, with a focus on data management, integration and automation.
• Strong expertise in database technologies, ETL tools, data warehousing (e.g. AWS Redshift)
• Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling, data warehousing, and data lake design principles.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python
• Experience in establishing data governance frameworks, data quality standards, metadata management, and data lineage practices.
• Proficiency in automation and orchestration tools (e.g., GitLab CI/CD) and an understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Knowledge of security best practices, data encryption, access control, and familiarity with compliance requirements relevant to data management (e.g., GDPR).
• Familiarity with machine learning algorithms, generative AI, data analytics platforms, and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.
• Excellent technical, analytical skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Team player and able to work effectively at all levels of an organisation with the ability to influence 
• Working knowledge of Functional monitoring tools and Custom metrics.
• Understanding good coding standards, industry standard best practices
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology is preferred

Additional Information

Alongside a competitive salary, Informa also offers the following employee benefits:

• Season ticket loan & Cycle2work
• Money purchased pension scheme & life assurance
• Eye care and childcare vouchers
• 25 days annual holiday, increasing to 27 days after 2 years, plus an extra day off for your birthday
• Informa's colleague Share Incentive Plan matches every share purchased with a free share
• Informa offers a £250 Healthy Lifestyle subsidy to spend on fitness activities and classes
• You are given permission to take 4 days off per year to volunteer with an approved scheme

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.  As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under local law.