Senior Enterprise Architect - Data & Cloud Governance

DWP Digital; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 91,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Time off volunteering

I Can Be Me in DWP

Discounts and savings

Bike season ticket loans

Sports and social activities

Professional development

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to shape its data architecture and technology direction across a large, complex government digital estate. You will influence enterprise standards, reference architectures and design patterns while mentoring teams and ensuring data architecture delivers tangible business outcomes.

Location options include hybrid work with flexibility and a focus on cloud-based data platforms, governance and AI readiness.

Qualifications

• Leading the enterprise scale architecture and design of business-critical IT projects/services in a large, high volume and complex organisation.
• Presenting to large and varied technical and non-technical audiences.
• Leading on architectural governance activities to enable effective management and architectural decision making.
• Experience of developing reference architectures including architectural principals, patterns, standards and guidance.
• Using architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards to clearly communicate concrete architectures.
• Experience of data modelling, database schema design, normalization, indexing, partitioning, sharding, replication, data quality assessment and data lifecycle management.
• Experience of selecting and using database technologies, including relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience of ETL/ELT tools and processes in modern data platforms.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Data architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Reference architectures

Data modelling

ETL tools

Cloud data platforms

Job description

DWP Digital is seeking an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to shape its data architecture and technology direction across a large, complex government digital estate. You will influence enterprise standards, reference architectures and design patterns while mentoring teams and ensuring data architecture delivers tangible business outcomes.

Location options include hybrid work with flexibility and a focus on cloud-based data platforms, governance and AI readiness.