Data Architect

Data Architect

Location: Leeds – 2 days per week

Employment: Permanent / 12-month FTC

Clearance: BPSS

About Amber Labs

Amber Labs is a specialist technology and digital transformation consultancy, delivering secure, high-quality solutions across complex programmes and highly regulated environments.

We work across areas including Digital, Data, Cloud, Architecture and Automation, supporting organisations where strong technical delivery, governance and engineering standards are essential. We foster a collaborative, supportive environment where people are encouraged to share ideas, develop their expertise and have a real impact.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Data Architect to join our team and support the design and delivery of modern data architecture across complex technology initiatives.

You will be responsible for developing data architecture and modelling approaches, working across data governance, master data, metadata and event-based architectures. You will also work closely with technical and delivery stakeholders, presenting architectural designs through governance forums and helping shape wider technology initiatives, projects and programmes.

This role would suit someone who can take complex business and technical requirements and translate them into practical, scalable data architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop data architecture and data models, applying appropriate patterns, standards, tools and best practice.
• Present data architecture designs and recommendations to technical governance forums.
• Develop architecture across data modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), metadata management and data governance.
• Design and apply event-based architecture patterns, including publish/subscribe and data streaming.
• Work with public cloud technologies and cloud hosting, including AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Apply appropriate containerisation, networking and cloud architecture patterns.
• Support Agile delivery methodologies and ways of working.
• Work with DevOps, CI/CD methodologies, tools and best practice.
• Shape and support technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios.
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to understand problems and translate them into effective data architecture solutions.
• Contribute to data standards, governance and architecture best practice across programmes.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Data Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Experience presenting data architecture designs to technical governance forums.
• Strong knowledge of:
• Data Modelling
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Metadata Management
• Data Governance
• Data Standards
• Experience designing event-based architectures, including pub/sub and data streaming patterns.
• Strong understanding of public cloud technologies, including cloud hosting, containers and networking design patterns.
• Hands-on or strong architectural knowledge of AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Understanding of DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies and best practice.
• Experience shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes or portfolios.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex data concepts clearly.

Desirable Skills

• Communicating data and presenting data concepts to different audiences.
• Data governance.
• Data modelling.
• Data standards.
• Metadata management.
• Turning business problems into effective data design.

Technologies & Tools

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Microsoft Azure
• Lucid
• GitHub
• GitLab

What’s In it For You

We believe benefits should be practical: things that genuinely support your day-to-day, give you flexibility and help you keep developing.

Here are a few of our perks:

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Remote-first working, with access to our Liverpool Street office
• Personal training budget to support your professional development
• Perkbox membership, with discounts across retail, travel, dining and wellness
• Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service
• Regular team socials
• Referral scheme offering up to £3,000 for successful hires
• Your choice of PC or Mac

How We Work

We’ve worked hard to build a team of people who are experts at what they do. Because of that, we’ll trust you to get on with your job and give you the space to do it well. But you’ll always have plenty of support around you whenever you need it - whether that’s to sense-check an approach, tackle a tricky client challenge, or simply bounce ideas around.

We keep our structure flat and our processes straightforward. If you have a good idea, you’ll be encouraged to run with it, and if something could be done better, we’ll encourage you to say so. Ultimately, we work with people who take pride in their work, support their team and want to leave things better than they found them.

Learn more about how we work.

What Happens Next?

Once you’ve applied, our in-house Talent team will review your application and, if it looks like there could be a good fit, they’ll be in touch.

For most of our roles, there are two interview stages: one focused on your technical expertise, and another focused on how you communicate and approach your work. We’re big believers that both are equally important!