Data Architect

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

• We are looking for experience producing and using architecture artefacts such as data models, data dictionaries, data flows or similar documentation.
• We need the ability to understand, describe and connect domain-level data across systems or products.
• We need the ability to translate complex technical information into business-focused language and shape technical direction from business needs across a variety of stakeholders.
• A data architecture background is ideal, but adjacent experience in data engineering, solution architecture or technical architecture may also be suitable.
• Awareness of data governance frameworks, standards, policies and procedures, with a clear architectural lens, is desirable.
• Strong technical data thinking, clear communication, curiosity and the confidence to influence decisions across business and technology teams are important.

• We will have you create and shape data architecture artefacts, including data models, data dictionaries and data flow diagrams.
• We will have you work with project, product, technical and business stakeholders to translate business capabilities into practical data requirements.
• We will have you explain complex data decisions in clear, accessible language.
• We will have you support data strategy and governance by contributing to standards, policies and procedures.
• We will have you help teams make secure, consistent and well-informed data decisions.
• We will have you work across change programmes to translate business needs into clear data architecture direction.
• We will have you support delivery teams and help ensure data decisions are aligned to our strategy, governance and future technology opportunities.

• AI
• Azure
• Flow
• Support
• Cloud
• Architect

We are AQA and we are looking for two Data Architects to join our Assessment Technology team at an important stage of our data architecture journey. This is a hybrid role based in Milton Keynes or Manchester, with two days per week in the office. You will help shape how data is understood, modelled, governed and used across complex assessment systems that support learners, schools and colleges.

We offer a 35-hour working week with flexible hybrid working, 25 days annual leave rising to 30 plus Christmas closure days, and an excellent pension with up to 11.5% employer contribution. You will also gain exposure to a Microsoft and Azure environment, work across operational, analytical, insight, AI and machine-learning opportunities, and contribute to reform, digital exams and future-facing data capability.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and lived experiences.

last updated 27 week of 2026