Senior Data Architect — Cloud-Native Data Strategy & AI

AND Digital Limited; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday + bank holidays

13 days for innovation/upskilling

2 days volunteering

Share scheme

£1000 flexifund for benefits

Monthly/quarterly team socials

Job summary

AND Digital is seeking a hands-on Data Architect to define data strategy and architectural principles within a cloud-native environment. You will blend strategic leadership with deep technical expertise in data modelling, distributed systems, and engineering problem-solving.

You will guide data strategy, standards and guardrails while shaping target state roadmaps, with a focus on security, cost and delivery speed.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in data architecture, strategy and target-state roadmaps.
• Deep knowledge of microservices, domain-driven design (DDD) and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with streaming platforms and data contracts.
• Strong data modelling and selection of stores (relational, NoSQL, graph, lakehouse).
• Experience designing end-to-end data flows across APIs, streaming, CDC, batch and ETL/ELT.
• Technical leadership in agile environments with lightweight guardrails and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve data strategy, architecture principles and roadmaps while balancing scalability and security.
• Lead design of cloud-native distributed systems for scalable data processing.
• Design and operate streaming platforms (Kafka/Kinesis) and data contracts.
• Model data and select appropriate stores based on requirements.
• Architect end-to-end data pipelines across APIs, streaming, CDC, batch and ETL/ELT.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams in fast-paced agile settings.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, metadata, security and observability.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Event streaming

Data modelling

End-to-end data flows

Technical leadership

Security & resilience

AI-assisted engineering

Kafka

Kinesis

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

AND Digital is seeking a hands-on Data Architect to define data strategy and architectural principles within a cloud-native environment. You will blend strategic leadership with deep technical expertise in data modelling, distributed systems, and engineering problem-solving.

You will guide data strategy, standards and guardrails while shaping target state roadmaps, with a focus on security, cost and delivery speed.