Senior Data Solution Architect – Remote with UK Travel

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Manchester; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning

Private Medical Insurance

Wellness programme

Pension Salary Exchange

Job summary

Methods is recruiting a Principal Data Solution Architect to join our Delivery team on a permanent basis. The role is mainly remote with travel to client sites in Manchester, Yorkshire or Derby.

You will be the senior technical authority, shaping the Data Transformation Programme and ensuring alignment to target architecture and business objectives. Responsibilities include setting priorities, guiding data workstreams, mentoring engineers, and leading architecture reviews.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Be the senior technical authority for the programme, responsible for defining technical direction, priorities, standards and decision-making.
• Maintain the Data Transformation Programme roadmap and ensure workstreams align to target architecture and business objectives.
• Set priorities and guide technical workstreams; identify low-value activities and redirect effort toward outcomes.
• Uplift team capability; mentor architects and engineers; establish engineering best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance forums; champion data standards across projects and organisation.
• Communicate complex technical information to non-technical audiences; influence senior stakeholders.
• Design data exposure via APIs and data fabrics; enable cloud-native data services.
• Oversee risk management and documentation for deployments; design end-to-end data solutions.
• Lead complex data migrations from legacy to modern cloud platforms; evaluate modern data stack technologies.

Skills

Fabric architecture

Data governance

Azure data stack

Data modelling

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Real-Time data

Parquet/Delta Lake

Kafka/Event Hubs

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Power BI

CosmosDB

Purview

Databricks

Job description

Methods is recruiting a Principal Data Solution Architect to join our Delivery team on a permanent basis. The role is mainly remote with travel to client sites in Manchester, Yorkshire or Derby.

You will be the senior technical authority, shaping the Data Transformation Programme and ensuring alignment to target architecture and business objectives. Responsibilities include setting priorities, guiding data workstreams, mentoring engineers, and leading architecture reviews.