Senior Data Architect – Cloud & Data Governance

AtkinsRéalis; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Flexible holiday allowances

Training & development opportunities

Disability confident employer

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Data Architect to work with clients to design modern, scalable data architectures, enabling better decisions, governance and digital capability across programmes.

You'll collaborate with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Security Architects and client stakeholders, shaping data strategies and governance while guiding cloud transformation within Defence, Security and Government sectors.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise data architectures.
• Ability to define data strategies and governance.
• Proven ability to present to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise and solution-level data architectures.
• Design conceptual, logical and physical data models.
• Develop data strategies, governance frameworks and information management approaches.
• Design secure and scalable data integration patterns.
• Produce architecture artefacts aligned to enterprise frameworks.
• Support cloud transformation and digital modernisation programmes.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure architecture remains aligned from concept through delivery.
• Influence technical direction through governance forums.
• Present technical recommendations and business cases to stakeholders.
• Support business development activities including technical proposals and client workshops.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud platforms

Data governance

TOGAF/Archimate

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

PostgreSQL

Azure Data Factory

Kafka

Job description

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Data Architect to work with clients to design modern, scalable data architectures, enabling better decisions, governance and digital capability across programmes.

You'll collaborate with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, Security Architects and client stakeholders, shaping data strategies and governance while guiding cloud transformation within Defence, Security and Government sectors.