Job Description:

Senior Data Architect Public Sector | Hybrid | Discovery Phase ProgrammeLocation: Remote - Once or twice across the contract onsite to your local office
Salary: £550 - £580 per day
IR35 - Inside ir35
10 Week Discovery with an option to go on for 2 years 
Provided data architecture leadership for a large-scale public sector discovery, defining the data strategy, governance framework, and information architecture required to enable secure data sharing across multiple organisations.
Key Responsibilities

• Led the data architecture workstream, identifying data risks, dependencies, and opportunities across complex organisational landscapes.
• Defined target data models, schemas, and integration requirements to support operational and analytical outcomes.
• Designed scalable data architecture patterns, including cloud-based data platforms, APIs, and data-sharing solutions.
• Established information governance, data protection, and security frameworks to ensure compliance with regulatory and organisational standards.
• Collaborated with delivery, product, business analysis, and engineering teams to develop data-driven prioritisation and decision-support models.
• Validated data architecture assumptions through prototyping and user testing, translating findings into future-state architecture recommendations.
• Produced data strategy, governance, and architectural outputs to support progression into the next phase of delivery.
• Provided expert advice to senior stakeholders on data management, interoperability, and information governance.

Skills & Experience

• Enterprise Data Architecture and Strategy
• Data Modelling (Conceptual, Logical, Physical)
• Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Information Assurance
• Data Sharing, Privacy, GDPR, and Security Frameworks
• Cloud Data Platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Data Lakes, API-Based Integration, and Modern Data Architectures
• ArchiMate, UML, and Enterprise Architecture Modelling
• Agile Discovery and Service Design
• Stakeholder Engagement and Technical Leadership