Data and Integration Architect
Posted 1 week ago by Langham Recruitment
£700 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Solihull
Summary: The Data and Integration Architect role involves leading enterprise data architecture and integration strategy within a complex technology landscape. The position requires defining standards, shaping target-state architecture, and ensuring seamless integration of various systems. This senior role is ideal for someone who can influence delivery teams and translate business needs into effective technical designs. The position is hybrid, requiring some presence in the Solihull office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own enterprise data architecture (conceptual, logical, physical models)
- Define canonical data models, taxonomies, and governance frameworks
- Architect data platforms (Data Lake, Warehouse, MDM, Analytics)
- Enable MI/BI, AI/ML, and reporting through high-quality, well-managed data
- Define retention, lifecycle, archival, and purge strategies
- Lead integration strategy (API-led, event-driven, batch)
- Define standards for APIs, messaging, ETL/ELT, and iPaaS platforms
- Design integrations across ERP, CRM, digital and SaaS systems
- Govern API management, security, versioning, and documentation
- Ensure integrations are scalable, observable, and resilient
- Design secure-by-design data and integration patterns
- Support GDPR, DPIAs, data classification, lineage, and auditability
- Partner with InfoSec on access control, encryption, and privacy
- Produce solution designs, integration diagrams, data flows, and interfaces
- Review designs for alignment with enterprise standards
- Support RFPs, vendor selection, and buy-vs-build decisions
- Own data and integration roadmaps
- Drive adoption of cloud-native, API-first, and DDD principles
- Act as trusted advisor across Sales, Finance, Operations, and Customer teams
- Mentor engineers and analysts on best practice
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as Data Architect / Integration Architect / Enterprise Architect
- Strong Azure experience (Data Lake, Synapse, Databricks, APIM, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid)
- Deep understanding of data modelling (relational, dimensional, canonical)
- Strong API and integration experience (REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL preferred, event streaming)
- Experience with ETL/ELT, iPaaS, Kafka/EventHub
- Solid knowledge of data governance, security, and GDPR
- Ability to produce clear architecture diagrams and documentation
- MDM, PIM/DAM, or data catalogue experience (desirable)
- Large-scale transformation or integration modernisation programmes (desirable)
- DDD, CQRS, event sourcing (desirable)
- Architecting for AI/ML data needs (desirable)
Salary (Rate): £700 daily
City: Solihull
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Data and Integration Architect | £600-£700 per day | Outside IR35 | 3 Months | Solihull/Hybrid We’re looking for a Data & Integration Architect to lead enterprise data architecture and integration strategy across a complex technology landscape. You’ll define standards, shape target-state architecture, and ensure data and systems (ERP, CRM, digital platforms, SaaS) work together securely, reliably, and at scale. This role suits a senior architect who enjoys setting direction, influencing delivery teams, and translating business needs into robust, future-proof technical designs.
Key Responsibilities
- Data Architecture
- Own enterprise data architecture (conceptual, logical, physical models)
- Define canonical data models, taxonomies, and governance frameworks
- Architect data platforms (Data Lake, Warehouse, MDM, Analytics)
- Enable MI/BI, AI/ML, and reporting through high-quality, well-managed data
- Define retention, lifecycle, archival, and purge strategies
- Integration Architecture
- Lead integration strategy (API-led, event-driven, batch)
- Define standards for APIs, messaging, ETL/ELT, and iPaaS platforms
- Design integrations across ERP, CRM, digital and SaaS systems
- Govern API management, security, versioning, and documentation
- Ensure integrations are scalable, observable, and resilient
- Security, Governance & Compliance
- Design secure-by-design data and integration patterns
- Support GDPR, DPIAs, data classification, lineage, and auditability
- Partner with InfoSec on access control, encryption, and privacy
- Solution Architecture & Delivery
- Produce solution designs, integration diagrams, data flows, and interfaces
- Review designs for alignment with enterprise standards
- Support RFPs, vendor selection, and buy-vs-build decisions
- Strategy & Leadership
- Own data and integration roadmaps
- Drive adoption of cloud-native, API-first, and DDD principles
- Act as trusted advisor across Sales, Finance, Operations, and Customer teams
- Mentor engineers and analysts on best practice
What Success Looks Like
- Reduced integration complexity and technical debt
- Improved data quality, governance, and lineage visibility
- Consistent adoption of enterprise data and integration patterns
- Stable, secure platforms supporting analytics and MIDelivery of target-state architecture milestones
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience as Data Architect / Integration Architect / Enterprise Architect
- Strong Azure experience (Data Lake, Synapse, Databricks, APIM, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid)
- Deep understanding of data modelling (relational, dimensional, canonical)
- Strong API and integration experience (REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL preferred, event streaming)
- Experience with ETL/ELT, iPaaS, Kafka/EventHub
- Solid knowledge of data governance, security, and GDPR
- Ability to produce clear architecture diagrams and documentation
Desirable
- MDM, PIM/DAM, or data catalogue experience
- Large-scale transformation or integration modernisation programmes
- DDD, CQRS, event sourcing
- Architecting for AI/ML data needs
Rate and Details
£600-£700 per day
Outside IR35
3 months
Hybrid with 3 days in the Solihull office