Data Architect

The Associates Global
Chaucer, London, United Kingdom
Today
£85,000 – £90,000 pa

Salary

£85,000 – £90,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
6 May 2026 (Today)

Benefits

25 days holiday Pension Private healthcare

The Associates Global are seeking an experienced Data Architect to work on an enterprise scale data transformation with a brilliant company with a very low turnover of staff. The role will see you work alongside EA's and the DQ team to help define the future data landscape for this organisation which is most definitely moving to cloud based systems.

This role requires a Data Architect who has the ability to help define and grow the company's Data landscape across product changes, the consolidation of systems, AI adoption and support the various procurement processes.

The successful Data Architect will need to have excellent communication skills and ideally a background that spans traditional RDBMS systems as well as more modern cloud based systems. The ideal tech stack experience would include, Oracle (on prem and cloud), SQL Server, Data Factory and Fabric. You will also provide guidance on the future adoption and use of unstructured data.

Some of the pressing tasks you will undertake include building Enterprise Data models, Creating new Data structures for one of their primary systems, work with DQ to consolidate multiple Masters and copies as well as give consideration to Digital and web data. You will also guide a number of LLD's to outcomes.

Ownership

* Define and maintain the data architecture strategy and roadmap, across all business capabilities, enabling business outcomes, and technical remediation, with a particular focus on the needs of the key partners, Data Service Team, and the Data Governance Team

* Define and ensure adherence to data architecture principles, patterns, and standards

* Assure technology change initiatives from a data perspective

* Support technology procurement processes (RFI / RFP) from a data perspective

* Liaise with vendors and company partners where appropriate

* Key contributor to business cases and proposals

* Continuously evaluate the data landscapes for architectural debt, modernisation opportunities, and decommissioning candidates

* Partner with solution, technical architects, developers, and DevOps teams to implement architecture decisions

* Align with the other enterprise architecture domains to ensure data supports a robust business, applications, security, and integration architecture

* Stay ahead of emerging technologies like AI and automation

* Assess and recommend data technology innovation that can enable business innovation

* Maintain architectural artefacts to an excellent quality (e.g. diagrams, catalogues, principles, standards), advocating use of EA tools to centralise and link domains for impact assessment

* Play a central authoritative role in architectural governance for data management and maturity

* Contribute to the overarching technology strategy and roadmap

* Create and maintain a data architecture annual plan, developing and maturing the capability over time.

This is a brilliant role with room to grow in a business that truly values it's employees. You will be required to work on site for 2 days a week (London Bridge closest station). The team are highly collaborative and it is therefore paramount that you are a team player

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