Senior Data Infrastructure Architect (GCP/BigQuery)

Government Digital Service; West of England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Digital Service is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to own and shape GOV.UK data infrastructure. You will design robust, scalable data platforms and act as a bridge between your team and the wider GDS technical community.

You’ll lead architecture decisions, champion data governance, and mentor engineers to maintain a culture of technical excellence across government services.

Qualifications

• We’re interested in people who have extensive experience designing and assuring large-scale, resilient technical architectures for complex data platforms.
• Bring a deep understanding of modern data engineering principles, including pipeline orchestration, data modelling, and infrastructure as code.
• Are confident translating complex business and user requirements into secure, scalable, and performant technical solutions.
• Possess expert-level knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically BigQuery for data warehousing and analytics, alongside AWS familiarity.
• Demonstrate strong experience with web data collection methodologies, including Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics (GA) to support data-driven decision-making.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to build consensus and drive technical direction.

Responsibilities

• be responsible for technical and architecture leadership and decision making, assuring robust, secure, and scalable technical architectures for complex data-intensive systems
• work with product and delivery managers to plan and prioritise the teams work
• ensure the activities and work of the team technically align across workstreams and meet the required standards
• be responsible for designing an end to end data infrastructure that meets the expanding needs of data users across GOV.UK

Skills

Technical architecture

Data engineering

GCP (BigQuery)

AWS

Data modelling

Data pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Google Tag Manager

Google Analytics

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring engineers

Tools

BigQuery

GCP

AWS

Google Tag Manager

Google Analytics

Job description

Government Digital Service is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to own and shape GOV.UK data infrastructure. You will design robust, scalable data platforms and act as a bridge between your team and the wider GDS technical community.

You’ll lead architecture decisions, champion data governance, and mentor engineers to maintain a culture of technical excellence across government services.