Role: Data Architect

Length: Initial 6-month engagement

Location: Hybrid - Telford

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Pay Rate: £550 - £650 per day

Clearance: Active SC Clearance

They're looking for a Data Architect who can take ownership of the solution design and guide delivery teams through complex technical decisions ensuring solutions are robust, governable and deliverable into live service.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong, hands-on data architecture experience and the ability to lead technical delivery in complex environments.
• Senior client stakeholders and internal delivery leadership
• Experience with multiple data storage technologies used in data warehouse and data lake solutions, such as: Relational DBMS, NoSQL, Graph databases, Cloud object storage & DB as a service
• Architecture and design concepts for ETL/ELT solutions, using a range of tooling
• Designing and applying data virtualisation technologies, particularly at enterprise scale
• Architecture and design concepts for data exploitation solutions and technologies, including: Analytics, Reporting, APIs
• Expertise in data modelling within large, complex IT estates, implementing multiple data architectures and integrating data management/governance tooling
• Modern ways of working such as Agile, CI/CD, DevOps and test automation
• Delivery across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments, including cloud migration programmes

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing data architectures, including cataloguing, metadata, lineage, quality, ownership and classification, to ensure data is trusted, discoverable, secure and fit for purpose from source to consumption.
• Providing architectural direction on the safe and governed adoption of AI and agent based capabilities within data and analytics platforms
• Producing architectures and designs for complex end-to-end data solutions, including data storage and management, ETL/ELT, reporting and analytics
• Advising clients on architecture/infrastructure, platform and engineering best practices across data warehouse/data lake solutions and modelling concepts
• Taking ownership of client requirements, deliverables and accountabilities, ensuring adherence to architecture governance processes, industry best practices and alignment with the client's architecture vision
• Driving solution development and documentation, ensuring good architectural practices are applied throughout the life cycle
• Managing relationships with vendors, third parties and key internal stakeholders

Are you interested in this position? If so, then please respond with your CV and I will be in touch ASAP.