Data Architect

Salary: £55,000 - 78,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience working as a Data Architect within modern cloud data environments.
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing conceptual, logical and physical data modelling.
• Experience designing data models for enterprise-scale data warehouses, lakehouses and analytical platforms.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, lineage and data quality disciplines.
• Experience implementing data contracts, data cataloguing, and governance tooling.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience operating within agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, maintenance and governance of enterprise, logical and physical data models across data products.
• Define and implement data architecture standards, modelling conventions and best practices to ensure consistency across solutions.
• Design scalable data structures that support reporting, analytics, AI and machine learning use cases.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure data solutions are aligned to the target architecture.
• Establish and maintain data governance practices, including metadata management, lineage, quality and stewardship using an established data catalogue.
• Provide architectural oversight for new data contracts, data marts, integrations and platform enhancements.
• Support the development of trusted, reusable and discoverable datasets to accelerate AI and advanced analytics initiatives.
• Lead data modelling reviews, design workshops and technical decision-making with business and reporting stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, standards and documentation, whilst mentoring delivery teams on data modelling and architectural best practice.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Machine Learning

More:

We are working with a public sector organisation in Glasgow to recruit a Data Architect for an initial 6-month contract with potential to extend, at a rate of £600/day inside IR35. The role is hybrid, with a mix of home working and office-based time.

last updated 36 week of 2026