Technical Data Architect — Hybrid Data Strategy

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working ( Belfast office two d/

Private healthcare

Dental cover

Optical cover

Employee share scheme

Critical illness and life insurance

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a senior Technical Data Architect to shape enterprise data architecture across AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud environments in Belfast. You will design scalable, secure data models and governance frameworks, reporting to the Director of Data Engineering, collaborating with engineering, analytics, and business teams.

You will lead architectural guidance, translate strategic objectives into robust technical solutions and mentor data engineering teams through complex

Qualifications

• Strong data modelling and multi-domain data modelling experience.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Bigtable).
• Hands-on ETL/ELT development and data transformation optimization.
• Proficiency with AWS data services (Kinesis, S3, Redshift) and GCP (Pub/Sub, BigQuery).
• Experience with streaming and real-time processing (Kafka, Spark, Flink).
• Knowledge of data governance and data quality practices.
• Experience across multi-cloud/hybrid environments and cost optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise-wide data architecture strategies aligned with objectives.
• Define and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Design and optimise data platforms across AWS, GCP and hybrid cloud.
• Build real-time and batch data pipelines.
• Enforce data governance, metadata, lineage and quality standards.
• Ensure GDPR/HIPAA compliance and data security best practices.
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to teams.
• Evaluate new technologies to improve performance and cost efficiency.

Skills

Data modelling

SQL & NoSQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

AWS (Kinesis, S3, Redshift)

GCP (Pub/Sub, BigQuery)

Streaming tech (Kafka)

Performance tuning

Multi-cloud/hybrid

Education

Relevant certifications (optional)

Tools

Collibra

Apache Atlas

AES256/TLS/KMS/Vault

Job description

Ocho People is seeking a senior Technical Data Architect to shape enterprise data architecture across AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud environments in Belfast. You will design scalable, secure data models and governance frameworks, reporting to the Director of Data Engineering, collaborating with engineering, analytics, and business teams.

You will lead architectural guidance, translate strategic objectives into robust technical solutions and mentor data engineering teams through complex