Data Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience working in a data architecture or senior data engineering role within a complex organisation
• Experience designing conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Experience providing architectural assurance or design governance for data or analytics solutions
• Experience working across multiple systems and data sources, including integration approaches
• Experience contributing to the delivery of data platforms or analytics initiatives
• Strong ability to design and articulate data architectures and models
• Clear communication skills, able to explain architectural concepts to non-technical audiences
• Working knowledge of data architecture principles, including data modelling, integration patterns, governance and secure data design within analytical environments
• Able to attend meetings and work at various locations as required
• Able to work outside normal office hours on occasion to meet service and project demands

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain data architecture principles, standards and patterns across data platforms and solutions
• Design conceptual, logical and physical data models to support organisational requirements
• Define approaches for integrating data from multiple internal and external sources
• Ensure interoperability between systems and platforms to enable joined-up data use
• Ensure data architecture supports governance, security, data-protection and retention requirements
• Work with relevant teams to embed appropriate controls and design-time safeguards
• Work closely with data engineers, analysts and service teams to translate requirements into effective architectural designs
• Review and evolve data architecture in response to changing organisational needs and technology developments
• Contribute to the development of architectural documentation and reusable artefacts

Technologies:

• Support
• Security
• Architect

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We are Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service created through the partnership between Luton Borough Council and Kent County Council to support contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council. We are a local government-owned service with strong public sector expertise and a team that includes people who have worked with the Council or supplied into it for many years. We are an equal opportunities employment agency and business, and we positively encourage applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

last updated 31 week of 2026