Data Architect

Solirius Reply; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

Flexibility to work from home

10 days allocated for development training per year

Generous Discretionary Bonus

Statutory & Contributory Pension

Private Healthcare Cover

Discounted Gym Membership

Job summary

Solirius Reply is looking for an experienced Data Architect to deliver high-quality services to public sector clients. You'll design and implement scalable data architectures, translating complex business requirements into practical solutions. This role demands strong communication and leadership skills, as you'll work with diverse stakeholders and lead technical initiatives. Join us to contribute to exciting projects and benefit from a dynamic work environment offering 25 days annual leave, private healthcare, and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data architecture and design.
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring junior staff.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to produce clear documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data architectures meeting business requirements.
• Translate complex requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Lead technical design workshops with stakeholders.

Skills

Data architecture design

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

SQL

Programming languages (Python, Scala, Java)

ETL/ELT design

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

About Us

Solirius Reply delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients’ needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 400 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields, to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

About You

You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for working with data to solve real‑world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high‑quality, data‑driven solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you’re comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into robust data architectures and platforms. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.

The Role

We are looking for experienced Data Architects to work on our projects with our public sector clients, helping to deliver Solirius’ services to the highest standard.

The role will involve working with multiple business and technical stakeholders, helping them to design data solutions and architectures which will then be implemented by the delivery teams.

As a Data Architect, you will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, using your experience and judgement to resolve complex data and architectural challenges in alignment with client needs. You will proactively manage escalations and take ownership of delivering effective, scalable, and secure data solutions.

Successful candidates will also be expected to take an active role in practice development: developing new data services to help with Solirius’ business development – creating and updating data architecture artefacts, liaising with other Solirius practices to maintain practice profile and contributing to the development of more junior practice members.

In addition to technical leadership, you will play a key role in identifying and shaping new business opportunities, working closely with stakeholders across client organisations to understand strategic objectives and deliver value‑driven, data‑led outcomes.

You must be a strong and confident communicator, capable of influencing both technical and non‑technical audiences. You will lead and mentor technical teams, build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups, and foster collaborative, cross‑functional working environments.

Your role will require innovative thinking, applying best practices and emerging data technologies to solve complex business problems in creative and pragmatic ways.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end data architectures that meet business, technical, and security requirements.
• Translate business and analytical requirements into scalable, secure, and cost‑effective data platforms.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise data architecture, data strategy, and governance standards.
• Lead data architecture reviews and technical design workshops with stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Support Agile delivery teams, defining MVP data architecture and providing ongoing technical direction.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across business, product, and IT to gain buy‑in and drive data‑driven decisions.
• Define data models, data flows, metadata standards, and integration patterns.
• Contribute to data engineering, automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices for delivery at scale.
• Ensure data security, privacy, compliance, and risk management are embedded in the solution.
• Produce clear data architecture documentation using standards such as conceptual, logical and physical models, C4, Archimate, and cloud‑native diagrams, including high‑level designs and relevant data artefacts.

Key Experience

• Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and senior‑level communication, including C‑suite.
• Proven experience in client‑facing and/or consultancy environments.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business and analytical requirements into scalable and resilient data architectures.
• Strong track record in designing and delivering end‑to‑end data platforms in enterprise settings.
• Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling.
• Deep understanding of data platforms, data integration, and analytics architectures.
• Ability to design solutions that meet both functional and non‑functional requirements, including performance, scalability, security, and compliance.
• Broad experience with data governance, data quality, master data management, and regulatory requirements.

Key Skills

• Advanced knowledge of cloud data platforms: Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong experience with data warehousing, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with SQL and at least one programming language such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• ETL/ELT design and data pipeline orchestration.
• Streaming and event‑driven data architectures.
• Agile and DevOps delivery methodologies applied to data platforms (DataOps).
• Expertise in data architecture and modelling (conceptual, logical, and physical).
• Familiarity with modern integration technologies and patterns (e.g., API‑driven, event streaming, service mesh).

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Flexibility to work from home
• 10 days allocated for development training per year
• Generous Discretionary Bonus
• Statutory & Contributory Pension
• Private Healthcare Cover
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Paid Fertility LeaveCycle to Work and Electric Vehicle schemes
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Annual Away Days
• Monthly Company Socials

Equality & Diversity

Solirius Reply is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.