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Join our team as a Data Architect and play a pivotal role in shaping our data landscape. You will be designing, governing, and evolving the data architecture to enable trusted, timely, and accessible data across the organisation. This role is an individual contributor position.
Data Architect
Location: North East based, Sunderland
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000
Day-to-day of the role:
Define and maintain the data architecture vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with organisational and group strategy.
Design and implement modern, scalable data architectures including Lakehouse, event-driven, and real-time/streaming solutions to support analytics, reporting, and machine learning.
Develop and maintain enterprise data models (conceptual, logical, physical), promoting data-as-a-product principles and ensuring consistency across domains.
Collaborate with Data Engineering, DBAs, Data Science, and BI teams to deliver high-quality, reusable, and governed data solutions.
Provide hands-on technical guidance on data design, modelling, and integration, ensuring alignment with architectural standards.
Drive the adoption of tools such as Alation, Monte Carlo, and Airflow to improve data lineage, quality, and reliability.
Ensure data security, privacy, and compliance are integral to all architecture and integration designs.
Act as a bridge between business and technology, translating strategic objectives into actionable data solutions and mentoring technical teams to enhance architectural maturity.Required Skills & Qualifications:
Proven experience as a Data Architect, Solution Architect, or Senior Data Engineer in a cloud environment, with openness to various data platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Strong knowledge of data services across multiple platforms (e.g., AWS S3, Redshift, Glue, Azure Blob Storage, Google BigQuery).
Expertise in data modelling (Dimensional, Data Vault, Enterprise).
Experience designing and implementing modern data architectures.
Proficiency with integration/orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Glue).
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with metadata, cataloguing, and data quality tools, and knowledge of data governance and GDPR.Benefits:
Opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where you can bridge the gap between strategy, business requirements, and technology execution.
Influence through expertise and foster collaboration across teams.To apply for this Data Architect position, please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this roleDo not include the following in your job application, CV, or cover letter:
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