About this role
Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience working as an enterprise-level data architect, with evidence of developing and delivering data models in a complex organisation
- Experience delivering enterprise logical and physical data models
- Strong knowledge of data management, consumption and governance
- Clear understanding of data lineage, ownership, stewardship, quality, security and retention
- Experience adapting or extending industry-standard data models
- Knowledge of technologies and third-party tools used to manage and provide access to data
- Understanding of semantic data layers and how they can support accurate, responsible use of data by AI tools
- Knowledge of data integration techniques, data warehousing and business intelligence technologies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn business needs into effective data solutions
- Communication and stakeholder-management skills to explain complex data concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience contributing to an Enterprise Data Model Forum or a similar data-governance structure
Responsibilities
- Build and extend our logical and physical enterprise data model, working from our existing conceptual framework of data domains, entities and relationships
- Align the data model with relevant industry standards, including ACRIS where appropriate
- Develop a semantic data layer that supports safe, meaningful consumption of data by AI tools
- Work with delivery teams to understand data sources and give data consumers a clear view of the context and meaning of the information they use
- Provide data modelling and architecture expertise across airport and Group technology projects
- Develop our data consumption and management strategy, tooling and technical direction, and lead its implementation
- Run our Enterprise Data Model Forum and provide an effective authority for proposed changes to the model
- Represent data considerations within the Solution Design Authority and other technology governance forums
- Strengthen data management practices covering lineage, ownership, stewardship, quality, security, retention, precedence rules and Master Data Management
Technologies
- AI
- Architect
- Business Intelligence
- CTO
- Support
- Network
- Security
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We are a UK airports group and the largest UK-owned airport operator, serving over 66 million passengers a year and connecting people with more than 270 destinations. Sustainability, support for local communities and inclusive workplaces are core to our work. We are hiring a permanent Enterprise Data Architect in a hybrid role based at one of our airports. You will join our Group Technology function and Enterprise Architecture team within the Office of the CTO, reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture. The role focuses on operational data and practical delivery, rather than analytics and reporting.
Our Grade 4a benefits include a bonus scheme, a 10% company pension contribution, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, free parking, subsidised public transport, company discounts, two volunteering days each year, a 24/7 Virtual GP service and a Care Concierge service. We are committed to equal opportunities and reasonable adjustments, are a Disability Confident employer, and support colleague communities including Womens Network, Embrace, Fly with Pride, Mind Matters, PACT and RespectABILITY.
last updated 46 week of 2026