Data Fabric Architect — Lead Defence Data Platform

Matchtech; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Life assurance

Generous holiday allowance

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Employee discount portal

Support for Armed Forces

Volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Matchtech are supporting a client in the Defence & Security sector in Farnborough to recruit a Data Architect - Fabric for a permanent role. You will lead end-to-end Data Fabric architecture, including integration, processing, storage, metadata, governance and consumption patterns, shaping the technology roadmap across environments.

You will mentor Data Fabric Engineers and Data Analysts, ensuring security, scalability and operability as the platform evolves, while communicating complex concepts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data architecture and/or data platform engineering.
• Proven track record evolving architecture with roadmaps, standards, patterns, and governance.
• Proficient knowledge of on-premises, cloud and hybrid platforms with governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, stewardship, and lifecycle management.
• Experience designing architectures for mission-critical environments including edge deployments and contested connectivity patterns.
• Experience leading engineering teams and mentoring in multidisciplinary environments.
• Ability to explain intricate architectural concepts to senior stakeholders with strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Fabric architecture end to end: integration, processing, storage, metadata/lineage, governance and consumption patterns.
• Establish and maintain the architecture roadmap, including tech evolution, capability increments and deployment waves.
• Direct architecture for data integration and interoperability, implementing connectors and cross-domain data exchange approaches.
• Translate high-level architectural intent into reference architectures, patterns and guardrails for repeatable delivery.
• Run architecture governance and assurance, leading data modelling across conceptual, logical and physical levels.
• Provide hands-on leadership to a team of Data Fabric Engineers and Data Analysts, ensuring security, scalability and operability of the platform.
• Stay aligned with engineering practices to ensure designs are buildable, testable and supportable.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts to senior stakeholders effectively.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Governance

Cloud and on-prem

Job description

Matchtech are supporting a client in the Defence & Security sector in Farnborough to recruit a Data Architect - Fabric for a permanent role. You will lead end-to-end Data Fabric architecture, including integration, processing, storage, metadata, governance and consumption patterns, shaping the technology roadmap across environments.

You will mentor Data Fabric Engineers and Data Analysts, ensuring security, scalability and operability as the platform evolves, while communicating complex concepts