Data Solutions Architect - Contract - 6 months - Outside IR35 - Liverpool/Hybrid

We're currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Data Solutions Architect to join a large-scale enterprise organisation undergoing significant investment in its data and cloud technology landscape.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping enterprise data architecture, designing scalable cloud-based solutions and influencing technology strategy across complex, business-critical platforms.

We're looking for someone with a strong background in modern data architecture who is comfortable working across multiple stakeholders, driving architectural standards and delivering pragmatic, high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data solutions aligned to enterprise architecture and business strategy.
• Define solution architecture across complex data platforms and integrations.
• Develop scalable, secure and high-performing cloud-based data architectures.
• Produce high and low-level solution designs and architectural roadmaps.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, Delivery and Business teams to ensure successful implementation.
• Champion architecture governance, standards and best practice.
• Influence technology decisions and provide technical leadership across multiple programmes.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working as a Senior Data Solutions Architect within large, complex organisations.
• Strong background designing enterprise-scale data platforms and architectures.
• Experience delivering cloud-based data solutions (AWS preferred).
• Excellent knowledge of data lakes, data warehouses and modern data platform architecture.
• Experience with data modelling, integration and migration.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience working across modern Agile delivery environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.

Desirable Experience

Experience with one or more of the following would be advantageous:

• AWS technologies including S3, Glue, EMR, RDS and Kafka.
• Lakehouse technologies such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
• Data integration tools such as Fivetran or CDC technologies.
• Teradata or other enterprise data warehouse platforms.
• Knowledge of Customer Data Platforms, CRM or marketing technology environments (beneficial but not essential).

The role will require you to be onsite 2 days a week in Liverpool

Please note due to the high number of responses if we do not get in touch with you within 48 hours your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful