Data Architect
Data Architect
Telford/ Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite
£600 per day inside ir35
6 months duration
Active SC clearance
We're looking for an experienced Data Architect to join a major public-sector programme, providing client-side leadership across enterprise data architecture, governance, solution assurance and strategic planning.
This is a senior architecture role where you'll work across a complex data estate spanning cloud, on-premise and SaaS environments, helping shape data strategy and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and business objectives.
What you'll be doing
- Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, principles and patterns.
- Provide architecture governance, design assurance and technical oversight.
- Develop strategic roadmaps for data platforms and data products.
- Assess the impact of business and technology change across the data landscape.
- Work closely with enterprise architects, delivery teams, security teams, suppliers and senior stakeholders.
- Support modern data capabilities including data products, metadata management, data fabric and data virtualisation.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance across architecture and engineering teams.
- Support wider transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
What we're looking for
- Strong experience in Enterprise Data Architecture within complex organisations.
- Experience working across large-scale on-premise, cloud and SaaS environments.
- Strong knowledge of AWS and Azure architecture.
- Understanding of data governance, data integration, metadata management, data fabric and data virtualisation.
- Proven experience in architecture governance and design assurance.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience working across multiple technical teams, suppliers and business functions.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Public-sector or regulated environment experience would be highly desirable.
If this role is of interest, apply now or email your CV to me directly at (url removed)