Senior Data Architect - Regulated Energy Data

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ofgem is seeking a Data Architect to shape data structures, governance and usage across the organisation. You will influence data foundations for renewable energy schemes, working with strategy, delivery, and governance teams in a complex regulatory setting.

You will lead data architecture activities, ensure compliance with UK GDPR and security policies, and mentor capability development within DDaT and Data communities.

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing OLAP data models.
• Experience integrating data from various sources and providing data to third‑party stakeholders using secure methods with appropriate usage of policies, access controls, performance, and monitoring.
• Experience applying industry standard data architecture principles, patterns, and technologies.
• Experience developing reference libraries, patterns and metadata repositories with reusability at the centre of design.
• Strong stakeholder management translating complex requirements into scalable, interoperable solutions.
• Ability to communicate in technical detail on data lineage, usage and structures.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture artefacts, including conceptual, logical and physical data models.
• Own and evolve data architecture principles, standards, and patterns.
• Ensure consistency and reuse of data designs across the organisation's digital and data landscape.
• Lead data architecture design for projects and services including ingestion, storage, transformation, integration and analytics.
• Review designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and regulatory requirements.
• Provide architectural direction that supports delivery while managing long‑term risk.

Skills

Data modelling

Data integration

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Ofgem is seeking a Data Architect to shape data structures, governance and usage across the organisation. You will influence data foundations for renewable energy schemes, working with strategy, delivery, and governance teams in a complex regulatory setting.

You will lead data architecture activities, ensure compliance with UK GDPR and security policies, and mentor capability development within DDaT and Data communities.