Senior Data Architect - Active SC Clearance - Inside IR35

Intelligent Resourcing Solutions Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Intelligent Resourcing Solutions Ltd is seeking a Senior Data Architect to provide strategic data architecture leadership for the New Style Modernisation Programme. You will design and govern data architectures that support management, integration and reuse of data across services and systems, ensuring data remains a trusted organisational asset.

You will work with business stakeholders, architects, engineers and delivery teams to develop data models, metadata standards and governance frameworks

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data architecture design and modelling.
• Proven ability to present data architecture to governance forums.
• Expertise in Data Modelling, MDM, Metadata Management, and Data Governance.
• Experience with event-based architectures and data streaming patterns.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern security practices.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery and DevOps practices (CI/CD).
• Ability to shape technology initiatives and portfolios with clear governance.

Responsibilities

• Design data models and metadata systems for multi-project environments.
• Lead data architects and interpret organisational needs.
• Provide oversight to other data architects on data artefacts.
• Design and support data dictionaries and metadata governance.
• Ensure teams adhere to organisational data architecture standards.
• Collaborate with technical architects to align systems with data architecture.

Skills

Data architecture design

Data modelling

Master Data Management (MDM)

Metadata management

Data governance

Event-based architecture

Data standards

Public cloud technologies

Agile delivery

DevOps (CI/CD)

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Pub/Sub

Data streaming

CI/CD tools

Containerisation

Job description

Senior Data Architect

As a Senior Data Architect, you will provide strategic data architecture leadership for the New Style Modernisation Programme. You will design and govern data architectures that support the effective management, integration and reuse of data across services and systems, ensuring data remains a trusted and valuable organisational asset.

Working closely with business stakeholders, architects, engineers and delivery teams, you will develop data models, metadata standards and governance frameworks that support programme outcomes. You will provide expert guidance on complex data challenges, promote good architectural practice, and ensure solutions align with departmental standards, technology strategy and government best practice.

You will also help shape future data capabilities within Working Age Services, supporting service transformation through modern data architecture approaches, including cloud-native and event-driven patterns, while enabling successful delivery of New Style Modernisation objectives.

Job description

A Senior Data Architect works with multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking.
At this role level, you will:

• design data models and metadata systems.

• help lead data architects to interpret an organisation's needs.?

• provide oversight and advice to other data architects who are designing and producing data artefacts.?

• design and support the management of data dictionaries.?

• make sure that your teams are working to the standards set for the organisation by the lead data architects.?

• work with technical architects to make sure that an organisation's systems are designed?in accordance with?the?appropriate data?architecture.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with?essential criteria?below:

You should be able to?demonstrate?extensive experience in the following areas:?

• Data Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns,?tools?and standards.?

• Presenting data architecture design to technical governance forums.?

• Data Architecture Design: Data Modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Governance.?

• Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques,?tools?and standards.?

• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns,?tools?and best practice (eg Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).?

• Agile delivery methodologies and best practice.?

• DevOps: Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies,?tools?and best practice.?

• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects,?programmes?and portfolios.?

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing

• Leadership

• Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Communicating Data (Practitioner)

• Data governance (data architect) (Practitioner)

• Data modelling (Practitioner)

• Data standards (data architect) (Practitioner)

• Metadata management (Practitioner)

• Turning business problems into data design (Practitioner)