Hybrid Enterprise Data Architect: Growth & Governance

STARK Group; Huddersfield; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Discretionary bonus

Retirement savings plan

Life assurance

Enhanced parental leave

Employee discounts & wellbeing

Job summary

STARK Building Materials UK in Huddersfield seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to lead the data architecture vision and strategy. You will design reliable, scalable data architectures aligned with engineering standards to support operational and analytical needs.

You will maintain data models, data flows, and designs while ensuring governance, quality, and integration across enterprise systems. This role emphasizes multi-modal delivery and collaboration with engineering teams.

Qualifications

• : Extensive experience in enterprise data architectures, data modelling methods and technologies, and solution design within complex organisations.
• : Be a systems thinker, delivering transformative change, with a growth mindset and value creation as your core.
• : Proven ability to align technical solutions with business strategy, enterprise architecture, and engineering standards.
• : Material expertise in data modelling techniques (conceptual, logical, and physical) and toolsets (ER/Studio, Erwin, dbt, SQL modelling)
• : Complementary experience in enterprise application, integration, and technology architectures with business architecture.
• : Strong knowledge of enterprise data platforms, public cloud services (AWS, Databricks, Azure, ServiceNow), and integration toolsets.
• : Experience supporting Master Data Management, Data Governance, and Analytics initiatives.
• : Awareness of non-functional requirements and how to incorporate them into architecture.
• : Practitioner of TOGAF / CIS / DAMA / ITIL.
• : Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and approaches.
• : Strong multi-modal delivery expertise.

Responsibilities

• : Alignment of data services, products and designs with enterprise architecture mission and strategy.
• : Development and maintenance of the enterprise data architecture to be resilient and scalable.
• : Establish and maintain architecture standards, best practices, and documentation.
• : Provide thought leadership on consolidating services and systems for a modern data estate.
• : Collaborate with application, connectivity, integration, platform, and security teams to simplify the landscape.
• : Work with data engineering to simplify data flows and pipelines across the organisation.
• : Support data modelling that underpins MDM, analytics, and reporting.
• : Ensure data models support governance and data quality.
• : Establish modelling standards and produce high-quality models.
• : Lead iterative reviews of architectures and models with stakeholders.
• : Identify patterns to promote re-usability and future-proof data services.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Systems thinking

Business alignment

Data governance

Cloud platforms

Non-functional

TOGAF knowledge

Emerging tech eval

Multi-modal delivery

Tools

ER/Studio

Erwin

dbt

SQL modelling

Job description

STARK Building Materials UK in Huddersfield seeks an Enterprise Data Architect to lead the data architecture vision and strategy. You will design reliable, scalable data architectures aligned with engineering standards to support operational and analytical needs.

You will maintain data models, data flows, and designs while ensuring governance, quality, and integration across enterprise systems. This role emphasizes multi-modal delivery and collaboration with engineering teams.