Role Principal Data Architect
Contract Inside IR35
Location Warwick UK hybrid
Rate Competitive inside IR35
Duration Initial 6 months with strong extension potential
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Architect to define and govern enterprise grade data architecture across complex, large scale data platforms. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, data engineering, analytics, and advanced data science, ensuring data products are secure, scalable, compliant, and commercially valuable.
Key Responsibilities
Own end to end data architecture for enterprise scale data initiatives
Define and govern data architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails
Design cloud based data platforms and integration solutions
Ensure compliance with governance, security, privacy, and regulatory frameworks including GDPR and SoX
Provide architectural leadership across data engineering, analytics, and ML use cases
Guide delivery teams on performance, resilience, scalability, and cost optimisation
Act as the senior data architecture authority and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders
Support agile delivery, prioritisation, and architectural decision making
Essential Skills and Experience
Extensive experience in data architecture and data engineering at enterprise scale
Cloud data platforms Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Azure, Databricks
Data integration ETL ELT CDC streaming APIs and messaging
Advanced data modelling relational dimensional and NoSQL
Data governance, security, RBAC, privacy, and compliance
Power BI and modern data visualisation tools
Azure ML, ML AI including generative and agentic AI exposure
End to end delivery of complex cloud data platforms
Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimisation
Large scale data migration and modernisation experience
Leadership and Stakeholder Skills
Operates with high autonomy and accountability
Strong influence at senior technical and business level
Comfortable leading architecture across multiple teams
Clear communicator who simplifies complex data topics
This is an inside IR35 delivery role, not advisory shelf ware. Hands on architects only.
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