Data Architect

Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex enterprise data platforms within consulting and public sector delivery environments.

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Remote (UK-based)

Sector: Consulting, Public Sector

Eligibility: Applicants must have the existing right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Architect (20+ years' experience) to lead the design and delivery of complex enterprise data platforms within consulting and public sector delivery environments. The role requires strong architectural leadership, the ability to influence senior stakeholders, and deep experience designing modern, scalable data architectures that enable business transformation, advanced analytics, and AI‑enabled solutions across large organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end‑to‑end design of enterprise data architectures supporting complex transformation programmes.
• Define modern data platform architectures, including lakehouse, distributed analytics, and event‑driven ecosystems.
• Provide architectural oversight of data engineering environments, including ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration, and DataOps practices.
• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost‑optimised data platforms aligned with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
• Lead architecture workshops, design authority, and governance forums, ensuring alignment between business strategy and technology delivery.
• Translate business and analytical requirements into practical architecture solutions, articulating design decisions in terms of business value, risk, and outcomes.
• Define and govern architecture artefacts including data models, architecture diagrams, and technical standards.
• Implement data governance, master data management (MDM), and reference data strategies, embedding security, privacy, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR).
• Provide leadership and mentoring to architects, engineers, and delivery teams and contribute to architectural capability development and client solutions.

Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Platforms

• Design architectures supporting AI workloads, model training pipelines, and inference services.
• Integrate AI outputs into operational and analytical workflows.
• Support model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure AI solutions align with governance, ethical, and regulatory standards.

Essential Experience (Minimum Requirements)

• 20+ years' experience in data architecture, enterprise data platforms, or large‑scale technology delivery.
• Significant experience delivering consulting engagements ideally within UK public sector organisations.
• Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise‑scale data and analytics platforms.
• Experience leading architecture governance and design authority forums.
• Strong ability to engage senior stakeholders and translate architecture decisions into business value.
• Deep knowledge of modern data architectures, cloud data platforms, and distributed analytics ecosystems.

Technical Expertise

• Cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Modern architectures including data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse platforms.
• Streaming and event‑driven data architectures.
• Data modelling, SQL, and modern data engineering ecosystems.
• Integration patterns including API‑led and event‑based architectures.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and discretionary bonus.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Remote and flexible working.
• Professional development and training investment.
• Private healthcare and pension contributions.
• Wellbeing and employee assistance programmes.