Lead Data Architect
£65,000 - 75,000 GBP
Hybrid WORKING
Location: Manchester, North West - United Kingdom Type: Permanent
Lead Data Architect
Manchester (Hybrid)
Up to £75,000 DOE + Benefits
An established digital consultancy is hiring a Lead Data Architect to design secure, scalable, user-centred data solutions for clients across the public and private sector.
You'll work in multi-disciplinary agile teams to deliver cloud-native architectures that unlock real business insight - and contribute to the governance, modelling and strategy that keeps data meaningful and accessible.
What you'll be doing:
* Define and implement data architectures aligned with enterprise strategy
* Build and maintain key artefacts: ER models, data dictionaries, pipeline/lineage models
* Own architecture decisions and guide clients through change approval processes
* Champion governance and modelling standards (Kimball, warehousing best practices)
* Analyse source data, evaluate APIs, reverse-engineer data models
* Work closely with engineers to deliver cloud-based data solutions
* Visualise insights via tools like Power BI or Tableau
* Support integration testing and third-party specifications
What you'll bri...