Senior Data Architect - Hybrid, Cloud & Governance

DataCareers; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Data Careers is supporting a secure public sector organisation in the East Midlands with an experienced Data Architect. This senior leadership role shapes enterprise-wide data architecture, enabling intelligent decision-making and strategic outcomes.

You will define future directions for a modern cloud-based data environment, collaborating across technical and business teams to establish scalable, secure data capabilities and governance frameworks.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering enterprise data architecture for large organisations.
• Knowledge of cloud-based data environments and governance frameworks.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver enterprise data architecture strategy.
• Design and implement scalable cloud-based data architectures.
• Lead data modelling, integration and governance initiatives.
• Establish architecture standards and best practice.
• Support Microsoft Fabric adoption and development.
• Design data flows, storage models and integration frameworks.
• Promote data quality, governance and security standards.
• Engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Support major transformation, migration and modernisation programmes.

Skills

Data architecture

Stakeholder leadership

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Data modelling

Data integration

Security/compliance

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Cloud

Job description

Data Careers is supporting a secure public sector organisation in the East Midlands with an experienced Data Architect. This senior leadership role shapes enterprise-wide data architecture, enabling intelligent decision-making and strategic outcomes.

You will define future directions for a modern cloud-based data environment, collaborating across technical and business teams to establish scalable, secure data capabilities and governance frameworks.