Digital Data Architect Belfast CC

EFDNI; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Belfast City Council is recruiting for a full-time permanent post in the Corporate Services Department, Digital Services. The role focuses on leading the design, delivery and evolution of the council’s technical data architecture, ensuring solutions meet business needs within scope, time and cost constraints.

You will lead a skilled data team, covering analytics platforms, data lifecycle management and data modelling, providing technical leadership across Digital Services and multi-disciplinary

Responsibilities

• Lead, oversee and ensure the design, delivery and ongoing evolution of the council’s technical data architecture, ensuring data solutions (operational reporting, analytics and integration) meet business needs within scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
• Lead and develop a team of data professionals (data analytics platforms, data lifecycle management and data modelling) and provide technical leadership in Digital Services across multi-disciplinary delivery teams.

Job description

ID: 2266

Department:

Corporate Services Department

Section:

Digital Services

Salary:

£58,602 – £62,195 per annum

Vacancy closing date:

19 Oct 2026: Before 12 midnight

About the role

This is a full-time permanent post

As Protestants and males are currently known to be under-represented in this job group, in Belfast City Council, applications from these groups would be particularly welcome.

And as young people (people under the age of 35), people with a disability and people from minority ethnic communities are currently under-represented in Belfast City Council, applications from these groups would be particularly welcome.

As part of our commitment to equality of opportunity we offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post. Further information can be found in the application pack.

Belfast City Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All applications for employment are considered strictly on the basis of merit.

You willbe responsible to the relevant Digital Delivery Manager for leading, overseeing and ensuring the successful design, delivery and ongoing evolution of the council’s technical data architecture, ensuring that technical data solutions (including operational reporting, analytics and integration) meet business needs and are delivered within agreed scope, quality, time and cost constraints.

You will also be responsible for leading and developing a team of highly skilled data professionals (responsible for data analytics platforms, data lifecycle management and data modelling) and for providing technical leadership in Digital Services and across multi-disciplinary delivery teams.