Data Architect - Remote with 3/4 Days a month onsite in Newcastle

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited; North East; Hybrid; GBP 129,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited is seeking a Data Architect for a New Style Modernisation project. The contract runs from 02/11/2026 to 31/12/2026 with remote work and 3/4 days per month onsite in Newcastle.

The role focuses on understanding data requirements, documenting structures, and ensuring data flows meet governance and national statistics needs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate data architecture design, data modelling, MDM, metadata management, data governance, and event-based

Qualifications

• Data Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Data Modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Governance.
• Event-based architecture design, patterns including pub-sub and data streaming.
• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container and networking design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Understand data requirements and objectives for NS modernisation, bridging data stakeholders and teams.
• Document data structures, processes and systems for data flows and governance.
• Support technology initiatives and data-related governance across projects.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

MDM

Metadata management

Data governance

Event-based architecture

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Agile delivery

DevOps

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Data Architect
Start 02/11/2026
End 31/12/2026
Remote with 3/4 Days a month onsite in Newcastle

The role of the Data Architect in the New Style Modernisation project is pivotal to its success. As a Data Architect, the worker is responsible for comprehensively understanding the data requirements and objectives for NS modernisation, both JSA and ESA. They act as the bridge between data stakeholders, theme teams, Dataworks and other data stakeholders to be identified.

The data architect plays a crucial role in identifying and documenting the data structures, data processes and systems needed for New Style modernisation ensuring data flows to the right places and National Statistics, along with other requirements are met.

Understand the data and where it goes and for what reason. E.g., Auditing, Dataworks

Person requirements: Essential skills and experience:

• Data Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Presenting data architecture design to technical governance forums.
• Data Architecture Design: Data Modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Governance.
• Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.
• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practice (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Agile delivery methodologies and best practice.
• DevOps: Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies, tools and best practice.
• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios.

Desirable Skills:

• Communicating Data
• Data governance
• Data modelling
• Data standards
• Metadata management
• Turning business problems into data design