Data Architect/Analyst - 12 month FTC

AND Digital; Leeds; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in the UK seeks a Data Architect to enhance clients' digital capabilities. You will leverage your data modelling experience to design efficient database structures and contribute to enterprise data architecture. The ideal candidate is proficient in tools such as ERwin and PowerDesigner, possesses strong relational and NoSQL understanding, and excels in stakeholder communication. The role offers a blended working model with significant benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays

Share scheme

£1000 flexifund for personalized benefits

Gym membership

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data modelling, architecture, or database design.
• Proficiency with modelling tools such as ERwin, PowerDesigner, or similar.
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL data structures.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and metadata management.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Understand data architectural designs and ensure alignment.
• Participate in design reviews contributing data modelling expertise.
• Develop and maintain data models using standard tools.
• Translate business processes into efficient data structures.
• Document the enterprise data landscape.
• Contribute to the design of data persistence layers.

Skills

Architectural Comprehension & Alignment

Design Influence & Feedback

Model Creation & Maintenance

Requirements Translation

Data Landscape Documentation

Data Service Support

Pipeline Code Integrity

Performance & Optimisation

Technology Adaptation

Education

Proven experience in data modelling

Proficiency with modelling tools

Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL data structures

Familiarity with data governance frameworks

Experience with cloud data platforms

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Tools

ERwin

PowerDesigner

Job description

Who We Are

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

Key Skills

• Architectural Comprehension & Alignment: Proactively understand data architectural designs for data services, applications, and persistence layers, ensuring all data models and schemas align with the overall architectural vision, technology choices, and data flow principles.
• Design Influence & Feedback: Participate in design reviews to provide data modelling expertise and constructive feedback on proposed new services or application architecture, highlighting potential data impacts on scalability, performance, and integrity.
• Model Creation & Maintenance: Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models using industry-standard tools (e.g., ERwin, PowerDesigner), covering relational and NoSQL modelling techniques.
• Requirements Translation: Work closely with stakeholders to understand business processes and translate them into efficient data structures and database designs.
• Data Landscape Documentation: Contribute to the overall documentation of the enterprise data landscape, mapping how data flows between different applications and services as defined by the underlying architecture.
• Data Service Support: Contribute to the design of data persistence layers and define data schemas for API documentation (e.g., OpenAPI specifications).
• Pipeline Code Integrity: Experience using SOLID principles when designing and reviewing code for data transformation pipelines and code-based data models ensuring high code quality, testability, and maintainability.
• Performance & Optimisation: Evaluate and optimise model designs for performance, scalability, and storage efficiency, including indexing, partitioning, and denormalization strategies, always considering the target architecture (e.g., cloud platform or service fabric) in your choices.
• Technology Adaptation: Model data structures across various environments including relational databases, NoSQL stores, and cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks).

Experience

• Proven experience in data modelling, architecture, or database design
• Proficiency with modelling tools such as ERwin, PowerDesigner, or similar
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL data structures
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and metadata management
• Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable Skills

• Experience with API schema design and OpenAPI specifications
• Working knowledge of software development principles (e.g., SOLID, DRY) as applied to data pipeline code and modelling tools

Why join AND Digital?

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.

A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.

A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.

A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Share scheme
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
• PLUS many more

For a full list of benefits - click here

Equal Opportunities

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.