Data Architect

Data Architect
London (Hybrid)
6 Month Contract
£500/day (Outside IR35)

Data Architect needed with Retail sector and large-scale cloud data platform experience including Databricks, Snowflake and/or BigQuery.

6 Month Rolling Contract. Hybrid Working - 2 days/week remote (WFH) + 3 days/week working from the London office. Start ASAP in March/April 2026.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects.

• Hands-on data architecture experience with 2 or more major cloud data platform implementations (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Retail industry experience strongly preferred including Retail data domains: Point of Sale (POS), consumer, trade promotion, supply chain, finance.
• Supporting the end-to-end data architecture life-cycle including: discovery, design + implementation phases.
• Large-scale data platform modernisation, consolidation + migration programmes experience.
• In-depth experience in data platform architecture + data engineering roles.
• Evaluating current platforms + designing integration and migration patterns for a future data platform.
• Performing As-Is assessments of existing data platforms including: environments, data flows, patterns, governance, performance + cost hotspots.
• Designing integration patterns to enable safe + efficient cross-platform data analytics + data sharing.
• Defining target state technical patterns for how multiple platforms converge / coexist including: data engineering, data storage, ML/AI, BI, security + governance.
• Target architecture blueprint including concrete reference architectures, pattern catalogues + technical guardrails.
• Cross cloud integration patterns including: networking, identity, data movement, catalog/governance integration.