Lead Data Architect - Data Fabric & Secure Platforms Hybrid

Hexwired Recruitment Limited; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Career progression

Innovative projects

Job summary

Hexwired Recruitment partners with a leading engineering and technology business to appoint a Lead Data Architect in Farnborough. The role leads the Data Fabric strategy, guiding governance and scalable deployment across secure customer environments.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams, balancing delivery pressure with architecture excellence. The successful candidate will own the data architecture roadmap, mentor engineers, and drive best practices for data processing, storage and

Qualifications

• Strong background in Data Architecture or Data Platform Engineering.
• Experience owning architecture across complex enterprise programmes.
• Knowledge of cloud, on-prem and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Experience with data governance, metadata, lineage and lifecycle management.
• Understanding of scalable integration patterns, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working within secure, regulated or mission-critical environments is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end Data Fabric architecture.
• Define architecture roadmaps, standards, governance and best practices.
• Lead data integration and interoperability strategies across multiple environments.
• Design scalable data processing, storage, metadata and governance solutions.
• Establish architecture patterns and technical guardrails for engineering teams.
• Lead architectural assurance and governance activities.
• Support secure deployments across cloud, hybrid and on-prem environments.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across projects.

Skills

Data Architecture

Architecture ownership

Cloud/Hybrid

Data governance

Integration patterns

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Secure environments

Job description

Hexwired Recruitment partners with a leading engineering and technology business to appoint a Lead Data Architect in Farnborough. The role leads the Data Fabric strategy, guiding governance and scalable deployment across secure customer environments.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams, balancing delivery pressure with architecture excellence. The successful candidate will own the data architecture roadmap, mentor engineers, and drive best practices for data processing, storage and