About this role
Salary: £38,000 - 68,000 per year
Requirements
- Deep experience architecting scalable data platforms, including complex ETL/ELT pipelines, warehouses or data lakes, data governance, and secure data exploitation
- Demonstrable experience designing architectures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, incorporating networking, security, presentation, middleware, databases, and enterprise integration
- Practical architectural knowledge of intelligent automation, machine learning enablement, or advanced analytics integration in production environments
- Proven ability to translate complex business and service-design requirements into robust technical blueprints with clear, traceable lineage for diverse stakeholders
- Extensive experience collaborating with multidisciplinary delivery teams using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models
- Strong proficiency with architecture modeling tools, notations such as ArchiMate or UML, and documentation frameworks for technical governance boards
- Ability to lead technical discussions, advise senior leaders, and mentor engineering and architecture peers
- BPSS clearance, or eligibility to undergo BPSS clearance
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end architectural design and formal governance approval for core data and analytics platforms
- Stabilize and iteratively enhance data ingestion, system integration, transformation, exploitation, and data security capabilities
- Lead technical architecture and governance sign-off for an intelligent automation platform to trial, scale, and productionize data-driven frontline operational improvements
- Provide subject matter expertise for enterprise-wide unified data platform initiatives, aligning them with domain requirements and long-term data strategy
- Partner with delivery teams to guide architectural solutions from discovery, concept, and prototyping through deployment and live operation
- Ensure designs adhere to established architecture principles, target-state patterns, technology radars, and public sector compliance standards
Technologies
- Architect
- ArchiMate
- Cloud
- ETL
- Machine Learning
- Security
- UML
More
We are recruiting a hands-on Data Architect for a major public sector body, leading architecture and governance across enterprise data and automation initiatives. The role is based in Sheffield or Leeds, with three days per week on-site, and offers an initial six-month contract with scope for extension. The daily rate is up to £700, inside IR35. We are Talent International UK; our subsidiaries include Digital Gurus, Infinite Talent, and Rethink. We act as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business supplying temporary workers. By applying, candidates accept the terms and conditions, privacy policy, and disclaimers available on our website.
last updated 46 week of 2026