Data Architect - SC Cleared

Salary: £137,500 - 150,000 per year

Requirements:

• Active SC Clearance is essential.
• Experience in enterprise data architecture.
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes and lakehouse solutions.
• Strong background in data modelling and data governance.
• Experience designing ETL/ELT architectures.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with data virtualisation.
• Experience with analytics and BI platforms such as Power BI, SAS or R.
• Experience with APIs and data integration.
• Experience working in Agile, DevOps and CI/CD delivery environments.
• Experience delivering large-scale public sector or regulated industry programmes is highly beneficial.

Responsibilities:

• Design enterprise data architectures, including data modelling, governance, metadata, lineage and quality.
• Define modern data platforms, including data lakes, data warehouses and lakehouse architectures.
• Design ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration solutions.
• Advise on cloud-based data platforms, virtualisation and modern analytics architectures.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, from design through to implementation.
• Support architecture governance, best practice and technical assurance.
• Work with engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions across Agile environments.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• ETL
• GCP
• Support
• NoSQL
• Power BI
• SAS

More:

We are supporting a major UK public sector digital transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Data Architect to join a high-profile delivery team designing enterprise-scale data and analytics solutions. This is a 6-month contract role based in Telford with a hybrid working pattern of 2 days onsite per week. The role is inside IR35, with a day rate of £550 to £600. We are offering an opportunity to work on a significant transformation programme alongside technical teams and senior stakeholders, helping to shape secure, scalable and governed data solutions.

last updated 30 week of 2026