Lead Technical Data Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Active SC Clearance is required.
• We require someone able to work on-site in Telford 2 days per week.
• We are seeking a Lead Architect with experience in leading architecture teams.
• Experience documenting existing data feeds, interfaces, dependencies, service ownership, operational constraints and business usage.
• Experience defining target-state AWS transformation approaches for data feeds or similar services.
• Experience developing decommissioning strategies for legacy services, including dependency mapping, migration sequencing, risk management and cutover planning.
• Experience working across a complex client and supplier landscape.
• Strong architectural judgement, technical leadership and delivery alignment skills.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to support discovery, analysis and architecture artefact production, with human review and governance.
• Ability to communicate clearly with delivery leads, engineers, operations teams, client stakeholders and third parties.
• Experience providing architectural assurance and challenging incomplete analysis or unsupported assumptions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture teams responsible for documenting existing data feeds and assessing their transformation to AWS.
• Provide technical leadership, architectural control and delivery alignment across feed discovery, legacy estate analysis, target-state design and migration planning.
• Ensure current services are properly understood, documented and prioritised before transformation decisions are made.
• Lead teams of architects discovering, documenting and assuring existing data feeds, interfaces, dependencies, service ownership, operational constraints and business usage.
• Set documentation standards, templates and quality expectations so feed analysis is consistent, traceable and usable by engineering, delivery, operations and governance teams.
• Define target-state AWS transformation approaches covering data movement, processing, integration, security, resilience, observability and support considerations.
• Develop decommissioning strategies for legacy services, including dependency mapping, migration sequencing, risk management, parallel running, cutover planning and retirement evidence.
• Use AI-enabled tools to accelerate feed discovery, documentation, code and metadata analysis, dependency identification, option development and architecture artefact production, with appropriate human review and governance.
• Own architectural decisions, assumptions, risks and issues across the transformation lifecycle.
• Work with delivery leads, engineers, operations teams, client stakeholders and third parties to ensure plans are realistic, executable and aligned to programme priorities.
• Provide architectural assurance across discovery, design, migration and decommissioning activity.
• Build client confidence through clear communication, credible technical leadership and honest advice on risk, complexity, trade-offs and delivery implications.
• Produce clear, usable outputs that support delivery decisions and reduce risk across the DWIT transformation.
• Create reusable prompts, templates, patterns and review checklists that can be adopted consistently across DWIT architecture teams.
• Ensure AI-generated outputs are reviewed, evidenced and governed before being used for architecture decisions or client-facing deliverables.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Support
• Security
• Cloud

More:

We are a well-known organisation based in Telford, and this is a 6-month contract role that requires on-site presence 2 days per week. The role is inside IR35 and requires active SC Clearance. We are undertaking a significant transformation of existing data feeds and legacy services onto AWS, and the DWIT Lead Architect will play a key role in leading architecture teams, providing technical direction, and helping us deliver safe, well-governed migration and decommissioning outcomes.

last updated 31 week of 2026