Data Architect

Location: Two Snowhill – Birmingham OR Podium, Euston London

Salary: Base salary of c£41,092 pa to £48,344 pa in Birmingham, or c£44,380 pa to £52,212 pa in London, depending on skills and experience. A flexible benefits fund of 15% is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable. Competitive benefits are available – see the Benefits section on our website.

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• Accountable for developing HS2’s enterprise data model, ensuring strategic alignment and enabling integration with wider business and technology architectures.
  
• Responsible for supporting and contributing to the development of the information and data strategy.
  
• Governance and management of data and information, working with IT Security and Assurance to ensure data is managed safely, securely, and legally.
  
• Planning, directing, and coordinating activities with IPTs, Joint Ventures and Tier 1 contractors to ensure deliverables meet HS2 contractual requirements.
  
• Assuring the quality of data in collaboration with Information Asset Owners.
  
• Networking and communicating with senior stakeholders across HS2, seeking opportunities for digital transformation.
  
• Supporting multiple teams and evaluating best practice.
  
• Guiding and supporting other architects and IT colleagues to understand how to deliver organisational goals.
  

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• Design and build data models and structures that support the organisation’s vision.
  
• Provide strategic oversight of the enterprise data model.
  
• Ensure data governance, security, and legal compliance.
  
• Coordinate with external contractors and stakeholders to meet contractual and technical requirements.
  
• Advocate for and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all work.
  

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• Communication: able to listen to technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations and facilitate difficult discussions (practitioner).
  
• Data analysis and synthesis: data profiling, source system analysis, and clear insights presentation (working).
  
• Data governance: evolve and define data governance, collaborate on wider governance, and ensure architecture considers data (practitioner).
  
• Data modelling: understand data modelling principles, produce relevant models, reverse‑engineer models, apply industry recognised patterns and standards (practitioner).
  
• Data innovation: assess emerging trends in data tools, analysis techniques and usage (working).
  
• Metadata management: design metadata repositories, advise less experienced team members (practitioner).
  
• Problem resolution: coordinate teams to resolve data issues and implement preventative measures (practitioner).
  
• Strategic thinking: communicate how activities meet strategic goals (working).
  
• Turning business problems into data design: produce data architecture that spans business areas and reaches common solutions (practitioner).
  

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• Agile methods and their implications for Data Architecture.
  
• Strategic and emerging technology trends, and practical applications.
  
• Defining and building information/data models to expose relevant issues, risks, and opportunities.
  

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• Leading the design of data models and enterprise master data management solutions.
  
• Defining complex technical data models and communicating them clearly to stakeholders.
  
• Working with Technical and Enterprise Architects to ensure governance and alignment.
  
• Using Data Architecture tooling, integration, or notation.
  

As HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and a Right to Work validation occurs before the interview stage. Certain time‑bound visas are not accepted.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre‑employment checks, which include Nationality & Immigration Status verification, employment references, DBS, financial and education checks.

Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

HS2 Ltd is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring a safe and inclusive working environment for all our staff, living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.