What You’ll Be Doing
Data Architecture & Strategy
* Define and own enterprise-wide data architecture aligned to business and technology goals
* Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models across multiple domains
* Establish scalable integration patterns, data flows, and canonical models
* Architect and optimise modern data platforms across AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud
* Design real-time and batch data pipelines using modern data engineering frameworks
* Evaluate emerging technologies to improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
Governance, Security & Compliance
* Define and embed data governance frameworks, including lineage, metadata, and data quality
* Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA)
* Implement best practices around encryption, key management, and platform security
Collaboration & Technical Leadership
* Partner closely with engineering, analytics, product, and business teams
* Provide technical leadership and architectural direction across initiatives
* Mentor engineers and support design reviews to ensure architectural consistency
What You’ll Bring
* A degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or similar
* Expertise in data modelling, database design, and optimisation
* Hands-on experience with:
* ETL / ELT pipelines and data transformation optimisation
* AWS (Kinesis, S3, Redshift) and GCP (Pub/Sub, BigQuery)
* Streaming technologies (Kafka, Confluent, Spark, Flink)
* Solid understanding of data governance tools and frameworks (Collibra, Apache Atlas)
* Strong knowledge of security, encryption, and key management (AES-256, TLS, KMS, Vault)
* Experience working in multi-cloud or hybrid environments, including cost optimisation
* Excellent communication skills — able to explain complex architectures to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Relevant certifications (AWS, GCP) are highly desirable.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a forward-thinking, supportive organisation where data architecture genuinely matters. You’ll have the opportunity to influence strategy, work with modern technologies, and support clients tackling meaningful, large-scale challenges.
The Benefits
* 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Buy, sell, or bank holiday options (tenure dependent)
* Hybrid working (3 days per week in the office)
* Pension via Hargreaves Lansdown – up to 6% matched
* Income protection, life insurance & critical illness cover
* Dental & optical cover
* Active social calendar, team socials & company-wide events
If you enjoy turning strategy into robust data solutions and influencing architecture at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
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