Data Architect

Duration

Initial 6 months with strong extension potential

We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Architect to define and govern enterprise grade data architecture across complex, large scale data platforms. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, data engineering, analytics, and advanced data science, ensuring data products are secure, scalable, compliant, and commercially valuable.

• Own end to end data architecture for enterprise scale data initiatives
• Define and govern data architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails
• Design cloud based data platforms and integration solutions
• Ensure compliance with governance, security, privacy, and regulatory frameworks including GDPR and SoX
• Provide architectural leadership across data engineering, analytics, and ML use cases
• Guide delivery teams on performance, resilience, scalability, and cost optimisation
• Act as the senior data architecture authority and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders
• Support agile delivery, prioritisation, and architectural decision making

• Extensive experience in data architecture and data engineering at enterprise scale
• Data integration ETL ELT CDC streaming APIs and messaging
• Advanced data modelling relational dimensional and No
  
  SQL
• Data governance, security, RBAC, privacy, and compliance
• Power BI and modern data visualisation tools
• Azure ML, ML AI including generative and agentic AI exposure
• End to end delivery of complex cloud data platforms
• Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimisation
• Large scale data migration and modernisation experience

• Operates with high autonomy and accountability
• Strong influence at senior technical and business level
• Comfortable leading architecture across multiple teams
• Clear communicator who simplifies complex data topics