Data Architect

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and senior-level communication, including C-suite.
• Proven experience in client-facing and/or consultancy environments.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business and analytical requirements into scalable and resilient data architectures.
• Strong track record in designing and delivering end-to-end data platforms in enterprise settings.
• Expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling.
• Deep understanding of data platforms, data integration, and analytics architectures.
• Ability to design solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, security, and compliance.
• Broad experience with data governance, data quality, master data management, and regulatory requirements.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud data platforms: Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong experience with data warehousing, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and at least one programming language such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• ETL/ELT design and data pipeline orchestration.
• Streaming and event-driven data architectures.
• Agile and DevOps delivery methodologies applied to data platforms (DataOps).
• Expertise in data architecture and modelling (conceptual, logical, and physical).
• Familiarity with modern integration technologies and patterns (e.g., API-driven, event streaming, service mesh).

Responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end data architectures that meet business, technical, and security requirements.
• Translate business and analytical requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective data platforms.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise data architecture, data strategy, and governance standards.
• Lead data architecture reviews and technical design workshops with stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Support Agile delivery teams, defining MVP data architecture and providing ongoing technical direction.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across business, product, and IT to gain buy-in and drive data-driven decisions.
• Define data models, data flows, metadata standards, and integration patterns.
• Contribute to data engineering, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices for delivery at scale.
• Ensure data security, privacy, compliance, and risk management are embedded in the solution.
• Produce clear data architecture documentation using standards such as conceptual, logical and physical models, C4, Archimate, and cloud-native diagrams, including high-level designs and relevant data artefacts.
• Take an active role in practice development by developing new data services to support business development.
• Create and update data architecture artefacts and liaise with other practices to maintain practice profile.
• Contribute to the development of more junior practice members.
• Identify and shape new business opportunities with stakeholders across client organisations.
• Lead and mentor technical teams, build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups, and foster collaborative, cross-functional working environments.
• Apply best practices and emerging data technologies to solve complex business problems in creative and pragmatic ways.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• ArchiMate
• Azure
• Cloud
• DevOps
• ETL
• Embedded
• GCP
• Support
• Java
• Python
• SQL
• Scala
• Security
• Architect

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We are Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, a technology consultancy and digital transformation partner that helps organisations solve complex challenges through strategy, design, engineering, and delivery. We work closely with clients across public and private sectors to deliver secure, accessible, user-focused services, and our services span the full digital delivery lifecycle including architecture, engineering, delivery management, user-centred design, business analysis, data, DevOps, and AI. We operate as a collaborative and inclusive organisation, empowering our people to take ownership, innovate, and develop their expertise. We offer a competitive salary, bonus scheme, private healthcare insurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 10 days allocated for development training per year, enhanced parental leave, paid fertility leave, pension, EAP support, gym membership benefits, cycle to work and electric vehicle schemes, flexible working, and annual away days/company socials. We are committed to equality, diversity, social mobility, mental health and wellbeing, and creating an accessible recruitment process where our people can thrive.

last updated 34 week of 2026