Data Architect

Venesky Brown; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Venesky Brown is working with a public sector organisation in Glasgow to recruit a Data Architect for an initial 6-month contract with potential to extend. The role is hybrid, with a mix of home working and office-based time.

You will lead the design and governance of enterprise data models, ensuring standards across solutions while collaborating with Data Engineers to support analytics, AI and ML use cases.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience as a Data Architect in modern cloud data environments.
• Expertise in designing conceptual, logical and physical data modelling.
• Experience designing data models for enterprise data warehouses, lakehouses and analytics platforms.
• Strong governance, metadata management, lineage and data quality disciplines.
• Experience implementing data contracts, data cataloguing, and governance tooling.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience operating within agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, maintenance and governance of enterprise, logical and physical data models across data products.
• Define and implement data architecture standards, modelling conventions and best practices to ensure consistency across solutions.
• Design scalable data structures that support reporting, analytics, AI and machine learning use cases.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure data solutions are aligned to the target architecture.
• Establish and maintain data governance practices, including metadata management, lineage, quality and stewardship using an established data catalogue.
• Provide architectural oversight for new data contracts, data marts, integrations and platform enhancements.
• Support the development of trusted, reusable and discoverable datasets to accelerate AI and advanced analytics initiatives.
• Lead data modelling reviews, design workshops and technical decision-making with business and reporting stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, standards and documentation, whilst mentoring delivery teams on data modelling and architectural best practice.

Skills

Data Architecture

Cloud environments

Data Modelling

Governance & Metadata

Data Contracts & Cataloguing

Stakeholder Communication

Agile Delivery

Job description

Salary: £55,000 - 78,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience working as a Data Architect within modern cloud data environments.
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing conceptual, logical and physical data modelling.
• Experience designing data models for enterprise-scale data warehouses, lakehouses and analytical platforms.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, lineage and data quality disciplines.
• Experience implementing data contracts, data cataloguing, and governance tooling.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience operating within agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, maintenance and governance of enterprise, logical and physical data models across data products.
• Define and implement data architecture standards, modelling conventions and best practices to ensure consistency across solutions.
• Design scalable data structures that support reporting, analytics, AI and machine learning use cases.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure data solutions are aligned to the target architecture.
• Establish and maintain data governance practices, including metadata management, lineage, quality and stewardship using an established data catalogue.
• Provide architectural oversight for new data contracts, data marts, integrations and platform enhancements.
• Support the development of trusted, reusable and discoverable datasets to accelerate AI and advanced analytics initiatives.
• Lead data modelling reviews, design workshops and technical decision-making with business and reporting stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, standards and documentation, whilst mentoring delivery teams on data modelling and architectural best practice.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Machine Learning

More:

We are working with a public sector organisation in Glasgow to recruit a Data Architect for an initial 6-month contract with potential to extend, at a rate of £600/day inside IR35. The role is hybrid, with a mix of home working and office-based time.

last updated 36 week of 2026