AWS Data Architect

Data Architect - Initial 6 months Inside IR35 Contract

Henderson Drake has partnered with a leading Data Consultancy to appoint a Senior Data Architect to own the end-to-end technical architecture of the VWG DTO data ecosystem.

The role is accountable for delivering a modern, scalable, AI-ready, governance-aligned data platform, while driving platform maturity and a multi-layered re-platforming agenda.

• End-to-end technical architecture across the full e2e stack.
• Engineering leadership across ingestion, transformation, BI, QA, Dev Ops.
• Re-platforming One Reporting’s analytical substrate to Redshift, enabling zero-copy data sharing, unified lineage and AI/LLM workloads.
• Re-platforming the ingestion and integration layer from Airbyte→Adverity to support harmonised vendor management, higher observability and stronger schema governance.

• Deep experience in cloud data architecture (AWS, Redshift, Glue, S3, Lambda, Bedrock).
• Strong expertise in ingestion frameworks (Airbyte, Adverity), schema governance and pipeline orchestration.
• Hands‑on understanding of BI, modelling, lineage, metadata and harmonisation.
• Experience leading large engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of data governance, taxonomy,  and compliance.
• Excellent communication and client‑facing leadership capability.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and analytical modelling for high‑volume datasets.
• Hands‑on experience with dbt / dbt Cloud for modular transformations and testing.
• Experience with pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Proficiency in Dev Ops/Data Ops practices, including CI/CD, Git, environment automation and deployment strategies.

• Initial 6 month contract (Extensions highly likely)