Azure Data Architect: Enterprise Data & Cloud Integration

CWA: Civil Works Alliance; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Generous annual leave

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Civil Works Alliance is seeking an experienced Enterprise/Data Architect to lead the development and maintenance of our enterprise data architecture, ensuring alignment with business, application, technology, and implementation strategies. You will shape data structures, domains, ownership, lineage, and integration dependencies across multiple teams.

The role requires expertise in Azure cloud services, data platforms, and modelling notations (ArchiMate, BPMN, UML), plus strong stakeholder

Qualifications

• Relevant degree, professional qualification, or equivalent practical experience in enterprise architecture, data architecture, information systems, computer science, systems engineering, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining enterprise data architecture in a complex organisation, programme, or project environment.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, including data domains, entities, ownership, stewardship, authoritative sources, lineage, flows, and integration dependencies.
• Experience developing conceptual and logical data models.

Responsibilities

• Work within the Enterprise Architecture function to develop and maintain our enterprise data architecture and its relationships with business, application, technology, and implementation architecture.
• Work closely with the Enterprise Architect Lead, Data, IT, Digital, PMO, business, and delivery teams to define data structures, domains, ownership, flows, lineage, authoritative sources, and integration dependencies.
• Translate architecture information into clear models and documentation.
• Develop and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state enterprise data architecture.
• Define and maintain data domains, entities, objects, ownership, stewardship, authoritative sources, systems of record, lineage, and data flows.
• Develop conceptual and logical data models in collaboration with Data, IT, Digital, PMO, business, and delivery teams.
• Map relationships between data, business capabilities, processes, applications, integrations, and technology components.
• Develop application and technology architecture views where required to support data architecture and traceability.
• Model Microsoft Azure environments and services relevant to enterprise data, including data platforms, integration, storage, identity, security, and networking.
• Assess the data and architecture implications of new systems, cloud services, integrations, technology changes, and project initiatives.
• Support the architecture of enterprise data platforms, including data storage, processing, integration, analytics, and information exchange capabilities.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, data, applications, technologies, integrations, work packages, deliverables, and implementation milestones.
• Capture and structure architecture and data requirements and support their validation and traceability.
• Identify data, application, integration, and technology dependencies, gaps, duplication, risks, and inconsistencies.
• Assess project and solution designs against agreed enterprise architecture principles, standards, and data architecture requirements.
• Support architecture reviews, design assurance, and implementation planning.
• Develop architecture models using ArchiMate 3.2, BPMN, and UML as appropriate.
• Use Sparx Enterprise Architect to maintain architecture and requirements content and Prolaborate to publish and review architecture information.
• Support architecture model exchange using XML and XMI where required.
• Maintain architecture repositories, modelling standards, naming conventions, metadata, and controlled documentation.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather information, validate architecture models, and communicate architecture decisions and dependencies.
• Support data architecture relating to construction technologies including BIM platforms, digital twins, common data environments, asset information models, and project delivery systems.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our architecture standards, modelling practices, governance, and repository quality.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Azure data platform

Archimate modelling

UML/BPMN modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Data modelling

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

Prolaborate

Job description

Civil Works Alliance is seeking an experienced Enterprise/Data Architect to lead the development and maintenance of our enterprise data architecture, ensuring alignment with business, application, technology, and implementation strategies. You will shape data structures, domains, ownership, lineage, and integration dependencies across multiple teams.

The role requires expertise in Azure cloud services, data platforms, and modelling notations (ArchiMate, BPMN, UML), plus strong stakeholder