Data Architect

About AND Digital

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014.

• Proven track record of leadership of teams and problem solving at the enterprise scale in the field of Data Architecture, Science or Analytics. With hands‑on technical delivery of client‑facing data projects across the full SDLC from design to migration, integration and live service in a multi‑vendor environment.
• Strong skills in languages such as Python, R, SQL or Scala, alongside experience of using modern and traditional data technologies including:
  Elastic Search, Mongo
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL, mySQL/maria
  
  DB, Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop, Kafka, Splunk/ELK or other logging and monitoring tools, BI and Data Warehousing solutions and ETL and migration technologies. This should be backed with strong cloud‑native data engineering skills e.g. AWS RDS, Aurora, Redshift, Kinesis, Glue or Azure Cosmos
  
  DB, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, SQL DB etc.
• Proven experience in quality assuring data programmes, including non‑functional testing and performance tuning.
• Hands‑on experience of modern software delivery, including CI/CD and Dev Ops practices with a deep understanding and extensive track record of delivering complex data solutions using Agile methods including Scrum, SAFe etc.
• A keen understanding of industry best‑practice around standards, quality and continuous improvement in the field of Data Engineering.
• Experience in conducting large scale enterprise batch and real‑time processing from varying sources.
• Experience in building and designing scalable and extensible enterprise data architectures.

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem‑solving.

• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
• An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
• Monthly and quarterly team socials – on us – ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
• A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.
• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan.

Permanent career opportunity based in Leeds (Hybrid). Start ASAP ideally Jan 2026. Hybrid Working – 2 days/week remote (WFH), and 3 days/week working on‑site in the Leeds office. A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large‑scale Government projects.

• Data Architect with in-depth experience of data modelling for both No
  
  SQL and relational databases, including structured and unstructured data environments.
• Defining / designing data models, data flows + data lifecycle processes across multiple integrated systems.
• Strong experience of AWS cloud platforms, No
  
  SQL technologies (eg Dynamo
  
  DB), data lineage, metadata + traceability tools (eg…