Data Architect

A professional services organisation is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and evolution of its enterprise data landscape. This is a hands-on role within a data and architecture function, responsible for shaping integration patterns, master data management, and the data warehouse, ensuring data is trusted, well-governed, and fit for analytics and decision-making.

• Define and maintain conceptual and logical data models across operational systems, MDM, and the data warehouse
• Lead the design and implementation of an enterprise Master Data Management capability
• Design and govern data integrations between core systems (e.g. Finance, HR, CRM, case/matter management systems)
• Own and evolve the organisation’s data architecture blueprint across ingestion, transformation, modelling, and consumption layers
• Provide architectural oversight for data warehousing and BI semantic models
• Work closely with data engineers, integration developers, BI teams, and third-party system integrators
• Establish data standards, quality rules, ownership, and stewardship models
• Contribute to and embed decisions agreed via a Data Governance forum
• Ensure compliance with data protection, information security, and regulatory requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in data architecture, integration architecture, or senior data engineering roles
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing, dimensional modelling, and slowly changing dimensions
• Experience with iPaaS and integration platforms (MDM experience highly desirable)
• Exposure to cloud-based data platforms (e.g. Azure analytics services)
• Experience working across enterprise data domains such as Finance, HR, and CRM
• Understanding of data governance, metadata management, and GDPR principles
• Comfortable working in agile environments and across multidisciplinary teams