Senior/Principal Data Architect — Secure Data & Cloud

AtkinsRéalis; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Data Architect to design modern, scalable data architectures that enable better decisions and governance. You will work across Defence, Security and Government programmes, collaborating with Solution and Enterprise Architects and data engineers to modernise legacy estates and migrate to cloud platforms.

You will develop data strategies, information management approaches and secure integration patterns while engaging stakeholders throughout the lifecycle and supporting

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise data architectures.
• Knowledge of data governance and information management.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise and solution-level data architectures.
• Design conceptual, logical and physical data models.
• Develop data strategies, governance frameworks and information management approaches.
• Design secure and scalable data integration patterns across complex technology landscapes.
• Produce architecture artefacts aligned to enterprise frameworks and business strategies.
• Support cloud transformation and digital modernisation programmes.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure architecture remains aligned from concept through delivery.
• Influence technical direction through governance forums.
• Present technical recommendations and business cases to stakeholders.
• Contribute to business development activities including technical proposals and workshops.
• Contribute to the continual development of the Secure Government Data Architecture Practice.

Skills

Data architecture

Data strategy

Information architecture

Data modelling

Data governance

Metadata management

Master data management

Data quality

Reference data

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

PostgreSQL

Azure Data Factory

Kafka

Job description

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Data Architect to design modern, scalable data architectures that enable better decisions and governance. You will work across Defence, Security and Government programmes, collaborating with Solution and Enterprise Architects and data engineers to modernise legacy estates and migrate to cloud platforms.

You will develop data strategies, information management approaches and secure integration patterns while engaging stakeholders throughout the lifecycle and supporting