Lead Data Architect
Posted 1 day ago by Sanderson Recruitment Plc
£900 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Wiltshire, UK
Summary: The Lead Data Architect role involves overseeing enterprise data architecture for a leading financial services company, focusing on aligning data strategies with business goals. The position requires designing scalable and secure data architectures while leading data modeling initiatives and ensuring data governance. This role is hybrid, based in Wiltshire, and offers an initial contract of six months with potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Architecture Leadership: Define and maintain the overall data architecture and strategy, ensuring seamless alignment with business goals and the broader Data & Insights (D&I) vision.
- Design & Modeling: Lead the conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling for key data initiatives.
- Standards & Governance: Establish, maintain, and enforce Data Platform standards, policies, and guidelines to ensure data consistency, quality, and security.
- Roadmap Enablement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to accelerate the decommissioning roadmap, modernizing our data landscape.
- Solution Delivery: Create architectural blueprints, artifacts, and guardrails that enable practical, secure, and efficient development.
- Innovation: Keep abreast of the latest data technologies and trends to recommend and implement cutting-edge solutions.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable experience operating as a Lead Data Architect or senior-level data engineering professional within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong command of enterprise data modelling techniques and modern data warehousing principles.
- Hands-on expertise with major cloud data platforms such as Azure and/or AWS.
- Proven track record of translating high-level business requirements into robust, scalable technical architectures.
- Strong stakeholder management.
Salary (Rate): £900 daily
City: Wiltshire
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Lead Data Architect- Up to £900 pd via Umbrella
Wiltshire/Hybrid working
Initially for 6 months with long term potential
Leading Financial Services company is looking to bring in a Lead Data Architect to take ownership of enterprise data architecture across multiple platforms and strategic programmes.
You will bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution, designing robust, scalable, and secure data architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Architecture Leadership: Define and maintain the overall data architecture and strategy, ensuring seamless alignment with business goals and the broader Data & Insights (D&I) vision.
- Design & Modeling: Lead the conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling for key data initiatives.
- Standards & Governance: Establish, maintain, and enforce Data Platform standards, policies, and guidelines to ensure data consistency, quality, and security.
- Roadmap Enablement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to accelerate the decommissioning roadmap, modernizing our data landscape.
- Solution Delivery: Create architectural blueprints, artifacts, and guardrails that enable practical, secure, and efficient development.
- Innovation: Keep abreast of the latest data technologies and trends to recommend and implement cutting-edge solutions.
What You'll Need
- Demonstrable experience operating as a Lead Data Architect or senior-level data engineering professional within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong command of enterprise data modelling techniques and modern data warehousing principles.
- Hands-on expertise with major cloud data platforms such as Azure and/or AWS.
- Proven track record of translating high-level business requirements into robust, scalable technical architectures.
- Strong stakeholder management
Reasonable Adjustments:
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