Senior Data Architect — Hybrid, Govt-Scale Data Strategy

Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

Annual leave 25 days

Bank Holidays + Privilege Day

Staff discount portal

Career development

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Department for Transport (DfT) in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Data Architect to shape the data architecture that underpins innovation, insight and better outcomes across DfT. The role is hybrid with locations including Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, London and Swansea.

You will lead designing enterprise-scale data models, standards and architectures, ensuring data is structured, governed and managed to support digital transformation and evidence-based decision making.

Qualifications

• Interpret an organisation’s needs, providing oversight and advice, designing data models and producing data artefacts.
• Design and support the management of data assets.
• Ensure teams follow established data architecture standards.
• Develop data architecture strategies, policies, and designs, and support their implementation within complex organisations.
• Create and review conceptual and logical data models to ensure alignment with overall data strategy and accurate representation of data requirements.

Responsibilities

• Being responsible for all data architecture within DfT providing designs for data solutions and understanding the interdependencies between different data stacks.
• Developing DfT’s data architecture strategy, roadmap and plans, working closely with data engineering teams to ensure delivery plans are aligned and that the underlying data architecture supports the goals of the department and government overall.
• Leading and developing DfTc’s data architecture to support a growing data eco-system with multiple analyst users and third-party builders.
• Influencing data decisions throughout policy lifecycles through demonstrating technology value, risk and opportunity.

Skills

Data modelling

Data architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Policy alignment

Job description

Department for Transport (DfT) in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Data Architect to shape the data architecture that underpins innovation, insight and better outcomes across DfT. The role is hybrid with locations including Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, London and Swansea.

You will lead designing enterprise-scale data models, standards and architectures, ensuring data is structured, governed and managed to support digital transformation and evidence-based decision making.