Data Architect - Yorkshire And The Humber

Salary: £100,800 - 100,800 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience as a Data Architect.
• Excellent knowledge of data modelling, architecture principles and patterns.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, interoperability and metadata management.
• Strong understanding of the Enterprise Data Management lifecycle.
• Experience across areas such as data governance, security, data quality, MDM or API management.
• Experience defining data standards and assuring data solutions.
• Strong analytical, requirements definition and stakeholder communication skills.
• Active, transferable SC Security Clearance required.
• Desirable: TOGAF, Zachman, PEAF or similar architecture frameworks.
• Desirable: Healthcare technology experience.
• Desirable: IAM, Single Sign-On or identity management experience.
• Desirable: Knowledge of messaging, directory and interoperability standards.
• Desirable: Knowledge of healthcare standards such as FHIR, SNOMED CT, openEHR or relevant ISO standards.

Responsibilities:

• Support a key staff identity/index workstream within an Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Single Sign-On (SSO) environment.
• Design data models and architecture that meet strategic business requirements while aligning with wider enterprise standards, governance and solution architecture.
• Design, maintain and develop data models, including reverse engineering from existing systems.
• Define data architecture, standards and patterns aligned to enterprise principles.
• Support data profiling, source-system analysis and systems integration.
• Design and assure solutions involving APIs, microservices, interoperability and metadata management.
• Support data governance, security, data quality and lifecycle management.
• Define functional and non-functional data requirements.
• Maintain data dictionaries, metadata repositories and architecture documentation.
• Communicate architecture decisions and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Technologies:

• API
• Architect
• IAM
• Support
• Security
• TOGAF
• microservices

More:

We are supporting a major public sector healthcare technology programme. This is a contract role inside IR35, offering up to £400 per day, remote working with onsite presence in Leeds one day per month, and a duration until August 2027. This is a long-term opportunity for an experienced Data Architect to contribute to a nationally important healthcare identity and access programme within a highly regulated environment.

last updated 34 week of 2026