Data Architect

Contract Data Architect

Greenfield Data Platform

Outside IR35 | £600-£675 per day

Initial 6 months | Start January

Hybrid - Manchester (1-2 days per week on site)

Overview

This is a great piece of work with a supply chain management consultancy who are building a greenfield data platform from scratch. Following a recent business split, data preparation is currently manual, and spreadsheet driven. The goal is to design a scalable, cloud-based platform to ingest, standardise, and enrich client data, initially for internal use and later as the foundation for client facing products.

This is a hands-on Data Architect role with full ownership of architecture, standards, and core data modelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and own a universal core data model
• Define ingestion patterns for varied client data sources including APIs, file uploads, batch, streaming, and CDC
• Architect scalable ETL pipelines handling hundreds of millions of rows
• Recommend and help select the most appropriate cloud platform and data stack
• Set modelling standards and architectural principles in a fully greenfield environment
• Advise on AI and ML usage for data identification, categorisation, and enrichment
• Ensure alignment with GDPR and ISO requirements
• Support infrastructure as code practices using Terraform

Environment

• Fully greenfield data estate
• Cloud agnostic, with early AWS prototyping
• Client data from highly variable third party sources
• Microsoft 365 for internal operations
• Power BI used in a bespoke, consultant driven manner

Required Experience

• Strong Data Architecture experience on greenfield data platforms
• Enterprise data modelling and large scale data design expertise
• Modern ETL and data ingestion architecture experience
• Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
• Comfortable operating autonomously and hands on