Senior Data Architecture Lead — Remote UK

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Companies House is modernising its data architecture to improve quality, enable better decision-making and support cloud-based platforms. We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect (Data) to shape data strategy across architecture domains, working with stakeholders to translate complex problems into practical solutions.

You will design and maintain data models, define standards, and guide multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Understanding of data architecture principles and best practices.
• Experience developing conceptual, logical and physical data models.
• Experience defining and maintaining data architecture artefacts, standards and patterns.
• Experience mapping logical to physical data structures across systems.
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with governance, metadata, lineage and data quality concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models for operational and analytical needs.
• Translate complex problems into practical architecture solutions with stakeholders.
• Influence data-related decisions across programmes and product teams.
• Develop mappings between logical and physical data structures across platforms.
• Support enterprise-wide data architecture standards, principles and reusable patterns.
• Contribute to the Data Architecture Strategy and organisational objectives.
• Provide architectural guidance to multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Support data governance, metadata, lineage and lifecycle management.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Agile delivery

Job description

Companies House is modernising its data architecture to improve quality, enable better decision-making and support cloud-based platforms. We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect (Data) to shape data strategy across architecture domains, working with stakeholders to translate complex problems into practical solutions.

You will design and maintain data models, define standards, and guide multidisciplinary teams.