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Data Architect (Lead and Principle)

£90,000 to 130,000 GBP

Bonus

Onsite WORKING

Location: Central London, Greater London – United Kingdom Type: Permanent

Data Architect

Location: UK-wide hybrid wit various levels of seniorirty  
Salary: £90,000 – £130,000 + bonus (DOE)
Eligibility: Must have full UK right to work – no sponsorship offered

Overview

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Data Architect to play a key role in shaping and delivering large-scale data platforms within public sector and public healthcare transformation programmes. This role blends hands-on data architecture, client-facing consultancy, and technical leadership within agile delivery teams.

You’ll lead on data strategy, data architecture, and governance approaches, ensuring data-driven solutions are designed for resilience, scalability, and compliance. You’ll also mentor and guide engineers and analysts, helping define and uphold architectural best practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead on the design and architecture of complex data systems, including data models, pipelines, migration strategies, governance processes, and data mastering.

  • Provide technical leadership and architectural assurance across agile delivery teams.

  • Work directly with public sector and healthcare clients to understand their data needs and align architecture to strategic outcomes.

  • Coach and mentor more junior team members, helping build architectural capability across the practice.

  • Define and implement data standards, patterns and processes across programmes.

  • Support technology or platform selections, considering scalability, performance, and compliance.

  • Champion modern data approaches, governance frameworks, and best practice.

Minimum Requirements

  • Proven experience in a consulting/delivery environment, delivering data architecture for UK government or healthcare clients.

  • Strong background in core data architecture disciplines – data modelling, transformation, metadata, migration, governance, and MDM.

  • Strong stakeholder management skills – able to translate between business goals and technical solutions.

  • Experience mentoring teams and influencing data delivery across wider project teams.

  • Deep understanding of modern data technologies – highly proficient in at least three mainstream data platforms or tools.

  • Able to work independently and lead complex initiatives in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.

Desirable Experience

  • Experience defining enterprise-level data architecture or operating at a solution/portfolio level.

  • Knowledge of data lake ecosystems, information handling models, and capacity planning.

  • Experience establishing or maturing data governance and stewardship frameworks.

  • Familiarity with public cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP) and data lakehouse technologies.

✅ What’s on Offer

  • Base salary: £90k – £130k (depending on experience)

  • Annual bonus

  • Flexible hybrid working (UK-wide)

  • A leadership role in the delivery of large-scale public sector data transformation programmes

If you're passionate about designing data solutions that make a difference in society, and want to play a strategic role in public service transformation, we’d love to hear from you.

Reference: AMC-AQU- LDAK

Postcode: EC1

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