Data Architect
Do you enjoy shaping robust data solutions and leading teams to deliver high‑quality outcomes for clients? As a Senior Data Architect within our Data & AI Practice, you will play a critical role in the technical delivery of complex data solutions across our Strategic Digital Solutions sector. You will be responsible for setting the technical direction on projects, ensuring data architectures meet client needs while being delivered to time, budget and quality expectations. This role suits someone with a strong professional services mindset who enjoys coaching others, improving standards and contributing to the wider practice. Alongside project delivery, you help develop repeatable data platform offerings and contribute ideas that strengthen how we work as a community. We can offer great career progression opportunities, the ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities. What you’ll be doing: Leading the technical delivery of enterprise data solutions, ensuring outcomes meet agreed time, budget and quality criteria. Providing specialist data architecture input into bids, solution design and delivery projects. Designing end‑to‑end data architectures and producing clear, high‑quality design artefacts. Leading and directing data engineering teams, including line management responsibilities. Acting as a trusted technical advisor to clients on data architecture, strategy and governance. Contributing to the development of reusable platforms, technical standards and practice capability. What you’ll bring: Proven experience in enterprise and solution data architecture using recognised frameworks such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). Hands‑on experience designing and delivering data platforms using technologies such as Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Oracle, SAP or Teradata. Strong expertise in data integration and pipeline development using tools such as Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Talend, IBM DataStage, SAS DI Studio or AWS Glue. Advanced data modelling, transformation and querying skills using languages such as SQL and Python. Experience delivering data quality, metadata management and governance solutions using tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra Data Catalog, Informatica IDQ or Talend Data Quality. A strong track record of leading technical teams in client‑facing environments and taking accountability for delivery quality. If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you! Although this role is advertised as full‑time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about the sector? With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market‑leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.