Data Architect

Data Architect - Hybrid (2 Days On-Site Per Week)

Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Data Architect to join a growing data function undergoing significant transformation. The successful candidate will shape enterprise-wide data architecture, ensuring high-quality, well-governed, scalable data solutions that support operational, analytical, and regulatory needs.

This role suits someone who is confident designing end-to-end data architectures, working across complex technology landscapes, and engaging senior business and technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Data Architecture & Modelling

• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Create and maintain data architecture blueprints covering ingestion, integration, storage, lineage, and consumption.
• Apply appropriate modelling techniques
• Lead design reviews and ensure models align with business needs and domain boundaries.

1. Data Governance & Metadata Management

• Contribute to data governance frameworks, ownership models, and stewardship processes.
• Build and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, and metadata standards.
• Ensure adherence to governance policies including lineage, retention, access control, and security.
• Support governance forums and drive consistent data definitions across the business.

1. Data Quality Architecture

• Embed data quality rules and controls across ETL/ELT and streaming pipelines.
• Develop data quality metrics, monitoring frameworks, and alerting mechanisms.
• Work with engineering teams to automate profiling, scoring, and remediation.
• Ensure data quality and lineage are embedded in reusable architectural patterns.

1. Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Leadership

• Lead discovery sessions to translate business needs into architectural data requirements.
• Communicate architectural decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Navigate ambiguity and align product teams, SMEs, and governance bodies.
• Prepare high-quality documentation and present to review boards when required.

1. Delivery Governance & Technical Leadership

• Oversee the implementation of data architecture standards across engineering teams.
• Provide technical guidance on integration, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and storage.
• Conduct design assurance to meet non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, cost).
• Coach engineers, analysts, and stewards on modelling, governance, and data quality practices.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Data Architect or Solution Architect with strong data focus.
• Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, metadata, stewardship, and glossaries.
• Experience embedding data quality controls and monitoring into pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse, BigQuery, Redshift).
• Ability to manage complex stakeholder landscapes and lead architectural design.
• Ability to create high-quality architectural artefacts and documentation.