DV Cleared Senior Data Architect — Enterprise Data Strategy

DataCareers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DataCareers is seeking a DV Cleared Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture in a complex Central Government environment, collaborating with Enterprise Architects, Data Engineering and governance teams to define target-state architectures.

The role covers data governance, metadata, data quality, data platforms and AI readiness, with onsite presence in central London and collaboration with senior stakeholders to set standards and roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise data architectures across complex environments.
• Proven ability to align data strategy with business objectives.
• Strong governance, metadata and data quality emphasis.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms and AI readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise data architecture and target-state roadmap.
• Develop conceptual, logical and physical data architectures and models.
• Link business objectives, information requirements, data assets and tech solutions.
• Provide leadership across data governance, data quality, metadata and information management.
• Define data architecture principles, standards, reference models and reusable patterns.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on enterprise data platforms.
• Support data integration and interoperability across systems.
• Develop approaches to data cataloguing, lineage and metadata management.
• Advance data products, data mesh, data fabric and cloud platforms.
• Ensure data is governed for AI/ML and analytics use cases.
• Produce enterprise architecture artefacts and participate in governance.
• Facilitate architecture workshops with senior stakeholders.

Skills

Data modelling

Data governance

Metadata management

Data quality

Master Data Management

Data platforms

Data warehouse architecture

Data integration

Cloud architectures

Architecture governance

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

UML/BPMN

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

DataCareers is seeking a DV Cleared Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture in a complex Central Government environment, collaborating with Enterprise Architects, Data Engineering and governance teams to define target-state architectures.

The role covers data governance, metadata, data quality, data platforms and AI readiness, with onsite presence in central London and collaboration with senior stakeholders to set standards and roadmaps.