Data Architect

WeServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & health check

Shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Data Architect to shape data strategy and enterprise data architecture across multiple sites in the UK. You will lead data governance, develop data models, and provide technical leadership across business and technology teams to enable smarter decision-making in a mission-critical environment.

The role is full-time and hybrid, based at Devonport or Leicester, with two onsite days per week. Security clearance (SC) will be required.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data architectures.
• Experience with data governance, information management and metadata management practices.
• Ability to lead senior stakeholders and provide strategic architectural leadership.

Responsibilities

• Defining enterprise data strategies, standards, policies and governance frameworks across the organisation.
• Developing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models to support objectives.
• Providing technical leadership on data architecture, information management and analytics.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data governance

Data models (conceptual/logical/phys)

Stakeholder leadership

On-prem deployments

Education

Degree in IT/CS/Engineering/Business

TOGAF certification

CDMP certification

Job description

Job Title: Data Architect

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol, Plymouth, Devon or Leicester – Hybrid Working

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76607

Shape the future of data that supports the Royal Navy

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Data Architect at Babcock Technology Centre, Devonport or Leicester, near Plymouth, Devon or Leicester, Leicestershire.

As part of our Digital Solutions team supporting Submarine Support Engineering, you'll help deliver the engineering assurance, information management and business solutions that keep the Royal Navy at sea. This is an exciting opportunity to influence enterprise-wide data strategy, drive digital transformation, and enable smarter decision-making across a complex and mission-critical environment.

The role

As a Data Architect, you'll provide strategic leadership for data platforms, information assets and enterprise data architecture. You'll ensure data is trusted, accessible, secure and aligned to business goals while helping to unlock the full value of organisational data. Working across business and technology teams, you'll play a key role in shaping data strategy, governance, analytics and future digital capabilities.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Defining enterprise data strategies, standards, policies and governance frameworks across the organisation.


• Developing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models that support business and operational objectives.


• Providing technical leadership and expert guidance on data architecture, information management, analytics and emerging technologies.


• Ensuring data solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements and regulatory obligations.


• Leading the identification and resolution of data-related challenges while driving continuous improvement and innovation.

This is a full-time, permanent role based at Babcock Technology Centre, Devonport or Leicester, working 37.5 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation of two days per week onsite.

Essential experience of the Data Architect:

• Significant experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data architectures within complex organisations.


• Strong knowledge of data architecture frameworks, methodologies, standards and best practices.


• Experience developing conceptual, logical and physical data models.


• Experience with data governance, information management, data quality and metadata management practices.


• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and providing strategic architectural leadership and assurance.


• Experience of on-prem technology/deployments.

Qualifications for the Data Architect:

Essential:

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.


• Recognised architecture, data management or IT certification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.

Desirable:

• TOGAF certification.


• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or equivalent industry-recognised certification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.


• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 12/11/2026